Study: 60 percent of Richmond families are single parent | WTVR.com
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Soldier Who Read Conservative Books Now Faces Charges | FOX News & Commentary: Todd Starnes
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CBS News: U.S. State Department Cover-Ups Range From Prostitution Charges to Drug Rings « CBS DC
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Federal Benefit Check???

Social Security check   Just a reminder,  better pass this around, it's the clearest presentation I have seen in quite  some time.   Subject: Social  Security check Here we go.     JUST REALIZED THAT  WITH REQUIRED AUTO DEPOSIT, I NEVER GET TO SEE  THE CHECK ....   ALERT EVERYONE YOU  KNOW.   THIS AFFECTS ALL OF  US.*   *Subject:*                      SOCIAL SECURITY  becomes FEDERAL BENEFIT CHECK   Have you noticed, the  Social Security check is now referred to as a "Federal Benefit  Payment"? I'll be part of the  one percent to forward this. I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in  me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing  it on until everyone in our country has read it. The government is now  referring to our Social Security checks as a Federal Benefit  Payment. This isn't a benefit.  It is earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our  employers did too. It totaled  15%  of our income before taxes . If you averaged $30K  per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 Invested in Social  Security . If you calculate the  future value of your monthly investment in social security( $375/month,  including both your and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% Interest  rate compounded monthly,  after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+  million dollars saved! This is your personal investment.   Upon retirement, if  you took out only 3% per year you'd receive $39,318 per  year, or $3,277 per month . That's almost three  times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per  month,according to the  Social Security Administration (Google  it - its a fact). And your retirement  fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)!  I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live on retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk  interest-earning accounts . Instead, the folks in  Washington pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madoff ever did.   They took our money  and used it elsewhere. They forgot (Knew)  that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a  referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to  them. And they didn't pay  interest on the debt they assumed . And recently, they've  told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. But is it our fault  they misused our investments? And now, to add  insult to injury, they're calling it a benefit, as if we never worked  to earn every penny of it.   Offered by John C.     Just because they  borrowed the money, doesn't mean that our  investments were a charity ! Let's take a stand .  We have earned our  right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our  legislators bring some sense into our government . Find a way to keep  Social Security and Medicare going, for the sake of that  92% of our population who need it.   Then  call it what it  is: Our Earned Retirement  Income. 99% of people won't  forward this. Will you?   You can bet I WILL  !!!

 

New York 10-Year-Old Protects Family With Intruder’s Own Gun

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Philip Hodges filed under Crime, First Amendment, Gun Control

Two armed burglars, one dressed in a FedEx-like uniform, came to the door of a family’s home in Brooklyn, New York. They broke in and ordered 2 residents to the floor where one of the armed criminals held them at gunpoint. The other burglar walked toward a bedroom where a 10-year-old boy and his mother were. The door was slightly opened, so the man pointed his gun inside the room. There are conflicting media reports about who exactly rushed the door and slammed it, causing the man to drop his gun in the room. It was either the mother or the boy. What we do know is that the boy picked up the gun and shot it in the direction of the armed criminal but missed. The other guy holding 2 of the residents on the floor shot back at the kid but also missed. However, the exchange of gunfire was enough to scare the 2 guys off, and they ran out without taking a thing from the family’s home, and no one was hurt.

The family’s safety is of course secondary to making sure the burglars had gun licenses, that their guns were registered, that they had no more than the allowable number of rounds in their guns, and that the appropriate background checks were done by the dealers for the purchasers. We’re talking about New York here, so there better not have been more than 7 rounds in each of the criminals’ guns.

And let’s not forget about the 10-year-old who not only had the gun in his possession without the proper license but discharged it inside his home. There’s got to be a ton of violations right there. And the mother seemingly allowed it to happen. She “contributed to the delinquency of a minor.”

And isn’t there something criminal about taking someone else’s things? The kid took the guy’s gun. That’s stealing.

I really hope New York comes down hard on this family for their many gun violations. Don’t they know they’re contributing to the state’s gun violence statistics? Don’t they know that guns are inherently evil, and that allowing a 10-year-old child to operate one, especially in this situation, is effectively teaching him that guns can be used to save his own or his family’s life? That is not helping the campaign to brainwash kids to be scared of guns.

What they should have done is not try to be heroes. They should have just let the burglars do whatever they want. Or if they really felt the need to “do something,” they could have grabbed a pair of scissors or a tape dispenser and used it on the armed men. Or they could have urinated on them or vomited on them. Or done any of the many tried and true methods of encouraging armed criminals to go away. Anything but handle a gun. Criminals don’t kill people. Guns do.

Read more: http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/06/new-york-10-year-old-protects-family-with-intruders-own-gun/#ixzz2VpzwqTEH

Ohio Dept. Of Insurance: Obamacare To Increase Individual-Market Health Premiums By 88 Percent - Forbes
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