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发帖数: 12623 | 1 On the same day lawmakers count the electoral votes on Capitol Hill,
officially certifying President Obama’s victory in the Electoral College,
the AP released a tabulation of official presidential votes from all 50
states.
As tabulated by the AP, Romney got 47.2 percent of the full presidential
vote.
He did a bit better – 48.0 – if you just look at the two top candidates.
That number – 47 percent – resonates in the context of the race because of
Romney’s infamous “47 percent” comments that seeme... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | February 5th, 2013 at 04:24 PM |
We’ve all been waiting to see the updated CBO Budget and Economic Outlook
for 2013 and the next ten years. Most of the news articles are focusing
their headlines on the deficit and debt numbers projected in the CBO report.
But remember that the reason why CBO deficit projections always understate
the reality is because they overstate the amount of revenue they expect to
come into the Treasury.
CBO projects the gross federal d... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 All Your Kids Are Belong to Us
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 8th, 2013 at 12:04 PM |
This is profoundly unbelievable. Professor Melissa Harris-Perry of Tulane
and MSNBC fame wants us to start treating children as property of the state.
In an MSNBC promo spot — a promo spot for a supposed news channel —
Melissa Harris-Perry says:
“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have
because we’ve always had a private notion of children, your kid is yours
and totally yo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2585 | 4 黑八自己奢侈浪费是很恶心。
但是你说的大钱可以一笔一笔算。多少是继承下来的ENTITLEMENT。
ENTITLEMENT 还是肥水流在国内，缓和社会矛盾，刺激经济。 当然也有养懒人， 败坏
社会风气的坏作用。这个坏作用可能超过缓和社会矛盾，刺激经济的好作用。 但是再
败坏社会风气， 也比不上战争贩子花钱打仗自肥，华尔街搞乱经济自肥严重。老黑吃
龙虾是
恶心，但是这个国家该坐牢枪毙的人席卷财富比老黑吃龙虾恶心百倍。
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 (CNSNews.com) – Since January, the Social Security Administration (SSA)
sent disability insurance (SSDI) checks worth $1.29 billion to an estimated
36,000 people who were still on the job and thus ineligible for benefits,
according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Friday
. (See GAO -13-635.pdf)
SSDI is meant to provide monthly cash assistance to workers whose mental or
physical illness prohibits them from being gainfully employed long-term. “
Some work activity indicat... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3229 | 6 最早的entitlement只包括Social Security and Medicare，因为受益者都要求交钱买
满一定的points,然后才能"entitled"，后来food stamp和Medicaid也加入进来就说不
清了。
发信人: oosmart (oosmart), 信区: USANews
标 题: Re: 细数2013联邦政府开支：从图例，图表和关键点看政府开支变化趋
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Nov 25 16:39:36 2013, 美东)
八、社会福利项目
这个是不是维稳支出的别名？ |
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发帖数: 10729 | 7
在晚间，在女的车里（灯光肯定不够亮）。吃一口中餐的蛋卷，在蛋卷里，还能借助车
里昏暗的灯光发现蟑螂。太让人怀疑了。
"6日晚间，20岁的非裔女子杰塔瑞·沃克（JatariWalker）来到位于丹尼森大街（
Dennison Ave）的好朋友海鲜中餐馆点餐，准备外带。她点了一份套餐和蛋卷，付了7
美元后离开。回到车上以后，她在蛋卷里发现一只蟑螂。"
而且都已经退了钱了，老板要是不是觉得自己对，是不会这么生气的。所以我说老板也
是被逼急了。
老板开枪当然会受到惩罚。女的现在说自己被枪击以后吃不下饭睡不着觉。摆明了一辈
子的诉讼都会等着这位老板。老板的店也关了，过去的存钱也会随着法律诉讼东流去。
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发帖数: 3249 | 8 【 以下文字转载自 LosAngeles 讨论区 】
发信人: rowena (最忆是江南), 信区: LosAngeles
标 题: response to 'income inequality' speech
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Feb 28 11:24:29 2014, 美东)
January 2014 - Bob Lonsberry, Rochester talk radio personality responds to
Obama's 'income inequality speech':
Two Americas, the America that works and the America that doesn't. The
America that contributes and the America that doesn't. It's not the haves
and the have not's, it's the dos and the don'ts. Some people do their duty
as Ameri... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 Jose Antonio Vargas: The Face of the Entitled Illegal Alien
Michelle Malkin | Jul 16, 2014
They've blown it again, big time. They just can't help themselves.
During the Bush years, the open-borders movement won over bleeding hearts in
the White House but alienated the American public with radical displays of
La Raza ("The Race") militancy, desecrated American flags and Che Guevara
shirt-wearing, fist-thrusting marches across the country.
Left-wing public relations consultants taught the amnesty ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6080 | 10 “You see, in the course of her job, she was able to gain access to college
admissions files, and couldn't resist pulling her own to see what it said.
The file told her bluntly that she had been a "marginal" admit based on her
application, but that she was ultimately accepted because she had a brother
who was already a student in good standing — that is to say, me”.
- This paragraph is mocking at legacy.
“What this lawsuit is really is just the latest attempt to derail an
apparatus that has given... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4150 | 11 WASHINGTON — President Obama presented a budget on Monday that is more
utopian vision than pragmatic blueprint. It proposes a politically
improbable reshaping of the tax code and generous new social spending
initiatives that would shift resources from the wealthy to the middle class.
Absent from the plan is any pretense of trying to address the main drivers
of the long-term debt — Social Security and Medicare — a quest that has
long divided both parties and ultimately proved impossible. The docu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3656 | 12 yes, there is no question about this.
when a man is young or poor, he wants the authority to protect him and help
him.
when he accumulates an initial amount of wealth, he wants the authority to
be let him be. let his wealth compound forward with low taxation and leave
all the opportunities unfettered in front of him.
when in the small chance that he accumulates a large amount of wealth, or
gained political power, so much so that he can affect the authority's
decisions, he wants the authority to ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 The American public has questions. And unlike others running for president,
I have frank answers.
And with my answers to major questions presented below, I officially throw
my hat into the GOP presidential sweepstakes ring.
11 Questions US Public Wants to Ask Candidates
Gallup has an interesting article based on the premise If the American
People Were Running the GOP Debate what would they ask?
Gallup claims the questions are based on issues that people say are the most
important problems facing... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 Straight Talk from Bernie Sanders
Rachel Alexander | Aug 17, 2015
The following column is satire.
Fellow Comrades, Socialists, Proles, and Occupy Wall Street allies,
Merci beaucoup (that means thanks very much in French - always have to throw
in a reminder of my favorite country) for biking, walking, taking public
transportation, electric or hybrid vehicles, carpooling or however else you
made it here. I want to to talk about the most serious problem facing our
country right now. Fast food worke... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6080 | 15 对，之所以美国一直把持前阵，是因为历史短，不需要象很多国家那样非要背负沉重历
史包袱，轻装上阵，目光向前。
而如今的作弊非要将美国的头嗯住，死死往回拉，似乎有人祖上做了奴隶，后代永远要
骑在历史和美国脖子上为非作歹，不然何以动辄entitled to骚乱烧杀抢掠－－有哪一
个少数民族没受过委屈，但哪一个象那一个那么entitled？ |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 狗屁, 军费只占政府开支20%左右, 大部分都是entitlement, 什么食品券之类的. 把这
些entitlement砍掉一半国债就减下来了, 也不用交那么多税 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 Lincolnshire, Illinois Approves Right-to-Work Ordinance; Battle Headed for
Courts
Congratulations to the village board of Lincolnshire, Illinois for having
the courage to stand up to union bullies by passing right-to work
legislation at the local level.
The Daily Herald reports Lincolnshire Creates Right-to-Work Zone that Unions
Oppose.
Lincolnshire has become the first town in the Chicago area to establish
itself as a right-to-work zone, a move critics have assailed as anti-union.
To cr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12756 | 18 我认为entitlement 砍或者不砍都可以，但是必须改革，严查fraud
我绝不认为砍entitlement 就能解决美国的问题
同理，我认为增税或者减税都可，但是我认为第一要flat 税率， 第二要打掉loophole
能做到这点，不论适度增税还是减税都可 （大幅度增税或者减税肯定不行） |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 http://rightwingnews.com/top-news/entitled-muslims-denied-free-
From Mad World News:
A group of African migrant Muslims decided to go grab some food as they
were hungry. Traveling to Palace Kebab, somewhere in Brazil, the men were
apparently baffled by the notion that they’d have to pay for the food they
wanted to eat.
According to reports, the entitled Muslims thought that the food would
be free, and when they were told it wasn’t, things started to take a turn.
Caught on video, the Musl... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9453 | 20 每个人都 entitled to sth.
唯独中产 NOT entitled to their own hard earned money.
这个国家是不是真的觉得自己能逆天。 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 21 A Yahoo reader16 hours ago
Section 793, subsection D of Title 18 of the U.S. Criminal Code requires up
to a 10 year prison sentence for:
Whoever… willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be
communicated, delivered, or transmitted or attempts to communicate, deliver,
transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered or transmitted the same to
any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and
fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the Unite... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 22 这是上面那篇文章下的跟贴：
More than 90 percent of D.C. journalists vote Democratic, with an even
higher number giving to Democrats or liberal-leaning political action
committees. Gallup reports that only 40% of Americans trust the news media.
No surprise there - that's the same percentage as registered Democrats (35%)
plus about one-third of the Independents (5%) In other words, liberals
trust the liberal new media. Well of course!
Liberals are entitled to their own opinions, of course, but they are not
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发帖数: 6571 | 23 Why is everyone distorting or outright lying about Donald Trump’s record?
Why does no one compare Trump’s record with Hillary Clinton or Obama’s
record?
Remember when Hillary held a press conference in front of Trump’s “failed
” Atlantic City casinos?
Well it’s time for Trump to run TV ads standing in front of the entire
Middle East. Stand in front of the ruins of Syria, Libya and even Egypt.
Hillary presided over all of it. But her bad decisions didn’t lose her a
dime. Her failures burned OPM- ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8211 | 24 Kind of too long... So just save here for future reference.
====================
There are three key findings to emerge from yesterday's dump of leaked DNC
emails released by Wikileaks:
There had been a plot designed to smear Bernie Sanders and to hand the
Democratic nomination to Hillary on a silver platter
There has been repeated collusion between the DNC and the media
There has been questionable fundraising for both Hillary Clinton and the DNC
First, a quick recap for those who missed the ori... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 25 Justmy11 minutes ago
The Democrats are right, there are two Americas . The America that works and
the America that doesn't. The America that contributes and the America that
doesn't. It's not the haves and the have not's, it's the dos and the don'ts
. Some people do their duty as Americans, obey the law, support themselves,
contribute to society and others don't.
That's the divide in America.
It's not about income inequality, it's about civic irresponsibility. It's
about a political party that p... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8291 | 26 支持，paul ryan政见跟trump严重分歧。我们赞同的修墙，遣返，暂停穆斯林难民，
Ryan都反对。 而Ryan同意减少secial security给付，增加entitlement来减少某些赤
字，是严重侵犯我们利益的！ 想想看，工作几十年，交税几十年去养黑墨，到了退休
的时候居然社安退休金是被减少的！因为一部分退休金又拿去养黑墨了。这是对我们中
产纳税人的双重剥削。
social security每年的增加是按照通货膨胀的，Ryan想削减SS payment, 所以就伙同
民主党一起修改了通胀计算方法。使得通胀降低。另外，作为回报，给民主党增加福利
支出（entitlement).
所以，共和党建制派，以Ryan为代表，实在是站在我们中产阶层的对立面。
今年如果不是出了trump, 人们根本没什么热情去给GOP 投票。很多GOP选民已经很多年
不出门投票了。因为投了也是白投。就比如romney选上，比奥巴马好不了多少，唯一不
会做的是把死掉的黑垃圾称为儿子，以此煽动种族仇恨。
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发帖数: 6571 | 27 Overwhelmed By Debt, Nearly 1 In 5 Young Adults Live With Their Parents Or
Grandparents
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Aug 17, 2016 9:58 AM
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In America today, more than 60 million people live in multi-generational
households. That number is so large that it may seem difficult to believe,
but the truth is that vast numbers of young adults have had to move back in
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发帖数: 1359 | 28 如果需要在underwood和clinton之间做出选择，我会选择underwood。为什么？
underwood崇尚家庭价值，即便在claire后期多次无理取闹的情况下，仍然选择和她走
在一起。虽然同样出身普通，underwood只迷恋权力，但是从来不搞权钱交换。
underwood上台后做的大事之一，就是要削减entitlement，并且清醒的认识到
entitlement会最终导致国家财政破产。underwood是个真正的马基雅维里主义者，手段
阴狠，但是目的是想通过总统宝位实现自身的人生价值，青史留名。相对clinton，即
便选上总统，只不过把贪腐从国务院搬到了白宫而已。 |
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发帖数: 7021 | 29 IN IOWA, DONALD TRUMP OFFERS VISION OF HOPE FOR THE POWERLESS AND
DISENFRANCHISED
Thank you. I am thrilled to be here in Iowa among so many good friends.
Iowa is fortunate to have some of the best and most dedicated public
servants in the country – including Governor Terry Branstad, Lt. Governor
Kim Reynolds, State GOP Chairman Jeff Kauffman, Senator Chuck Grassley and,
of course, our great host, Senator Joni Ernst.
What an incredible roster.
I also want to take a moment to thank the Bikers who ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 258 | 30 Trump and the Emasculated Voter
There’s only one way to protect the nation from Hillary Clinton,
and that is to vote for Donald Trump.
By DAVID GELERNTER
Oct. 14, 2016 6:41 p.m. ET
Some conservatives have watched their evaluations of Donald Trump’s
character drop so low in recent days that on this vital question they no
longer see a choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Accordingly,
they are forced back onto politics and policy; and naturally Mr. Trump wins
in a walk. If conservatives... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 33224 | 31 Trump表现过得去，尤其是前一个小时。最后20-30分钟似乎体力下降，在伊拉克和
entitlement programs上有点跑题了。
我知道很多粉丝希望Trump能像Pence甚至Newt那样把Hillary打得满处找牙。虽然我也
是那么盼望的，但是那确实勉为其难了。他不是职业选手。
我的期望就是他别捅篓子就好。
今天6点出去有事，从7：10左右听了最后20分钟。感觉Hillary这部分表现不错。回答
比较流畅，有气势。Trump重提ISIS，Iraq都是现在政府制造的。指出问题，也没给出
答案。在GDP问题上，重提jobs，jobs，jobs。至少不失分。Entitlement问题不知道是
不是故意回避了，讲了些Obamacare。Hillary侃侃而谈，但是本质就是加税。这倒也是
个万金油的回答。总结陈词，Trump看似不华丽，但是有几句关键话，指出了Hillary的
加税本质，提了veterans，体现他忧国忧民了。
回来家以后看前面的录像。Trump基本完成任务了，没通篓子。缺点是，在女人问题上
耽误太多时间了。应该直接take high road就完了。但是亮点也不少，... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 33 所谓的非法移民吃福利的说法完全缺少数字支持。都是人云亦云。
这三大项目里面 非法移民 拿social security 可以忽略不计。Medicare 可以忽略不
计。 仅仅 第三项 才有可能被 abuse。但非法移民看er能有多少。总共就那么些个er
。能花多少钱。
宣称非法移民吃坏国家福利的 最好提供具体数据。
All entitlement spending isn”t created equal. The “Big Three” of Social
Security, Medicare, and Medicaid account for more than two-thirds of all
federal entitlement spending. Social Security and Medicare
Big Three accounting for $1.6 trillion of this total. The largest
expenditure was for Social Security ($690 billion), followed by Medicar... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6929 | 34 在加州，几乎只要有孩子的非法移民家庭都吃福利。
加州非法移民子女占18岁以下人口超过20%，几乎
90%以上在吃福利。
: 所谓的非法移民吃福利的说法完全缺少数字支持。都是人云亦云。
: 这三大项目里面 非法移民 拿social security 可以忽略不计。Medicare 可以
忽略不
: 计。 仅仅 第三项 才有可能被 abuse。但非法移民看er能有多少。总共就那么
些个er
: 。能花多少钱。
: 宣称非法移民吃坏国家福利的 最好提供具体数据。
: All entitlement spending isn”t created equal. The “Big Three” of
Social
: Security, Medicare, and Medicaid account for more than two-thirds of
all
: federal entitlement spending. Social Security and Medicare
: Big Three accounting... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 35 她是利用了 citizen 这个字的另一个意思，看底下 2或3：
1.
a native or naturalized member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to
its government and is entitled to its protection (distinguished from alien ).
2.
an inhabitant of a city or town, especially one entitled to its privileges
or franchises.
3.
an inhabitant, or denizen:
The deer is a citizen of our woods.
4.
a civilian, as distinguished from a soldier, police officer, etc.
公民，不一定是指具有*国籍*与相对应权利的国民。比如说，我们讲公民意识，公民道
德，这里的公民指的更接近上面英文2或3的意思，指居住在一个地方的人。对此，奥巴
马当然... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3229 | 36 Social security和Medicare是真正意义上的entitlement，因为前提条件是交过钱的才
能享受。后来福利党把foodstamp和Medicaid也搞成了entitlement。现在概念已经混淆
了。
大政府管理的东西最后往往会失败，如果早把Social security按照401K模式交给私人
机构管理，可能就不会有现在的问题了。 |
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发帖数: 5601 | 37 Sen. Rand Paul - Republican Senator from Kentucky on budget and debt: you
have to look at entitlements, entitlements are 2/3 of the budget but theyre
growing much more rapidly. Bret Baier - Host of Special Report with Bret
Baier on the Fox News Channel, author of the new book Three Days in January
on Trump: They just couldnt believe it, from the escalator down in 2015 to
the nomination. |
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发帖数: 5818 | 38 video 被 removed， 看下面 text。
Just had the craziest experience ever on an airplane:
I'm boarding my flight from Baltimore to Seattle and approach my seat. I had
an upgraded seat that I paid a little extra for because of the long 6 hour
flight. As I approach my row I smile and motion to the husband and wife
sitting in the aisle and middle seat that my seat was next to the window. I
put my backpack in the overhead and the wife with a very stern voice says to
me:
"Did you come here to cheer or to prot... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3817 | 39 自己去看美国宪法
United States Constitution
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United States Constitution
Constitution of the United States, page 1.jpg
Page one of the original copy of the Constitution
Created
September 17, 1787
Ratified
June 21, 1788
Date effective
March 4, 1789; 227 years ago
Location
National Archives,
Washington, D.C.
Author(s)
Philadelphia Convention
Signatories
39 of the 55 delegates
Purpose
To replace the Articles of Confederation (177... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3817 | 40 自己去看美国宪法
United States Constitution
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
United States Constitution
Constitution of the United States, page 1.jpg
Page one of the original copy of the Constitution
Created
September 17, 1787
Ratified
June 21, 1788
Date effective
March 4, 1789; 227 years ago
Location
National Archives,
Washington, D.C.
Author(s)
Philadelphia Convention
Signatories
39 of the 55 delegates
Purpose
To replace the Articles of Confederation (177... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 41 SAVE幫助聯邦政府、州政府或者地方政府機構在移民申請政府福利時，驗證申請者的移
民信息。(取自USCIS網站)
公民及移民服務局(USCIS)日前發布公告，表示將改進目前「外國人權益核實系統」(
Systemic Alien Verification for Entitlements，簡稱SAVE)，新增蒐集移民身分信
息。移民局目前正向政府部門收集意見，為期60天。移民律師李定一表示，這有可能是
為日後調查移民濫用公共福利的措施鋪路。
SAVE項目是旨在幫助聯邦政府、州政府或地方政府機構在移民申請政府福利時，驗證申
請者的移民信息的項目。該項目有1億多條聯邦政府紀錄，是自願加入項目，目前全美
已有1000多個政府機構通過SAVE驗證非美國公民申請者的移民信息，幫助相關機構確保
只有符合要求的申請者才能領取福利。參加SAVE項目的政府機構，通過提供申請人的姓
名、出生日期及移民身分文件的信息，就可通過系統進行核實。該項目擬推廣至全國。
「這與川普總統上台提出的要嚴格執行移民法，驅逐對政府提供虛假信息、濫用政府公
共福利的移民的行政令有關。」李定一表示，此外，川普總統在行政令中也提出政... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7937 | 42 评论针针见血。
I voted for you Donald. One of the bigs reasons I did was because Bannon was
on your team. Fuq him over and you will not be re elected.
Kushner and the pro-government guys did not get Trump elected. You can bank
that.
This story is Donald Trump's to write. If he is wise it will be a long one.
If not, period.
Kushner is a piece of garbage. He talks crap about Bannon to the rats at
Morning Joe. He is an establishment bag licker. We voted for Trump not that
jewbag.
you hit the nail on the h... 阅读全帖 |
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M**********n
发帖数: 4964 | 43 其实事件刚出来时，网上（非mitbbs）也有些信息不正确，我就记得从哪里看到4倍机
票价格
OR 1350，昨天才知道原来是up to 1350.现在又搜了一下，感觉如果旅客要求cash的
话，航空公司应该不可以拒绝，不可以强迫给voucher，只是估计很多旅客不知道而已
，而且航空公司可能也不说实话而已。
If you’re involuntarily denied boarding, the Department of Transportation
regulates what you’re entitled to. Here are the rules, as published by the
DOT:
If you are bumped involuntarily and the airline arranges substitute
transportation that is scheduled to get you to your final destination (
including later connections) within one hour of you... 阅读全帖 |
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M**********n
发帖数: 4964 | 44 这次是不是这样子提多张50 coupon，我不知道。我是看到网友以前有遇到这样子的，
总共300，6张50coupon，但这50 coupon在这个版被夸张传播了，导致大家认为ua当初
给的offer是16张50 coupon。
但我觉得如果旅客要求现金，航空公司是不可以拒绝的。
。。。。in many cases you’re entitled to a sizable cash payment。。。。注意
entitled这个词。
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发帖数: 1 | 46 Reasons Why We Need to Preserve Our 2nd Amendment Right to Keep and Bear
Arms
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil
interference. They deserve a place of honor with all that is good. When
firearms go, all goes. We need them every hour. — George Washington,
Founding Father in his address to the 2nd session of united States Congress.
Steve Nolan, Contributor
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and survivors of the Aurora,
Colorado shooting as well as to... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 48 I've been a Republican professor on Democrat campuses in California for
almost a decade and a half. I'm not a Democrat and never have been, so I don
't have that to #Walkaway from, but I want to walk to you and encourage you.
This page--I am impressed with this page and these stories you all have
shared. What you're experiencing is the beginning of an exciting journey, a
learning process that I wish all my students could start with.
I have been surrounded by Democrats in Lost Angeles as a profes... 阅读全帖 |
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W***n
发帖数: 11530 | 49 Financial Crisis Coming If U.S. Doesn't Deal With Long-Term Debt, Says Pete
Peterson
Posted Feb 07, 2011 12:14pm EST by Daniel Gross in Newsmakers
Peter G. Peterson, co-founder of the Blackstone Group, has long warned about
the threat that high deficits pose to the nation. In a stream of books, op-
eds, and articles, he has pushed for reform of entitlements and the tax code.
In recent years, Peterson, who served as Commerce Secretary in the Nixon
Administration, has stepped up his anti-deficit a... 阅读全帖 |
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s********n
发帖数: 26222 | 50 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: smokinggun (硝烟), 信区: Military
标 题: 美国统计局编造通货膨胀数据
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Jun 18 00:12:26 2011, 美东)
Williams points out that one of Greenspan's manipulations of the CPI
involved the consideration that when steak got too expensive, the consumer
would substitute hamburger for the steak. So, Greenspan argued, the
inflation measure should reflect the costs of buying hamburger, not steak.
NEWS ANALYSIS
What's America's real inflation rate?
If rate is so low, how come food an... 阅读全帖 |
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