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The Obama 2014 budget proposal and the appearance of reform
WASHINGTON - Well, at least we're starting to get the procedure right. Washington has rediscovered the beauty of the boring. It's called "regular order," using the normal, routine, constitutional process to arrive at, for example, a budget. Normal had...Tags: Parties and Movements, Retirement, Economy, Business and Finance, Budget Control Act of 2011, Market and Exchange
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Pelosi says immigration reform will be finished by summer recess
SACRAMENTO -- Pointing to an agreement reached between farmworker unions and growers on a migrant worker program, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Saturday that she expects immigration reform to be completed before Congress takes its summer recess....Tags: Barack Obama, Immigration, Nancy Pelosi, Elections, Politics
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Letters: Whose ox will Obama gore?
Re "Obama's entitlement gambit," Opinion, April 10 The current calculation used to determine adjustments to Social Security benefits is based on the cost of living for an urban worker, not a senior. Therefore, it doesn't account for the greater...Tags: Barack Obama, Health Insurance Cost
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Mo. gun list given to federal government leads to privacy lawsuit being refiled
ewood@ky3.comSpringfield, Mo. -- A Missouri man says his worst fears are confirmed with revelations that confidential information about 163,000 Missourians with conceal and carry permits was shared with the feds two different times. Eric Griffin's court case in...Tags: Lawyers, Justice System, Executive Branch, Jay Nixon, Crime, Law and Justice
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Mother is concerned about ID thieves after passport applications were lost
Email padler@ky3.comSPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Postal inspectors are tracking down what happened to dozens of passport applications filed by people here in Springfield, as well as in Alabama and other parts of the country. Those packets contain sensitive information about your...Tags: Interior Policy, Personal Data Collection, Theft, Politics
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Obama's Social Security proposal sparks GOP confusion
WASHINGTON -- President Obama's proposal to trim Social Security's cost-of-living adjustments has sparked not only Democratic outrage, but Republican confusion. In the days since Obama put the idea in his 2014 budget, Republicans' reactions have...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Economy, Business and Finance, Paul Ryan, Market and Exchange, Greg Walden
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Social Security challenges you to a word game
In 1938 - only a couple of years after Social Security was signed into law - a depression-era, unemployed architect named Alfred Mosher Butts studied the front page of The New York Times to figure out how often each of the 26 letters was used. The...Tags: Scrabble (game), The New York Times, Online Media Industry
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AP analysis: Obama's budget tries to bridge political gap
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's first budget of his new term is a political straddle, aimed at enticing Republicans into a new round of deficit negotiations while trying to keep faith with Democrats who favor higher taxes in service of...
Tags: Parties and Movements, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Barbara A. Mikulski, Personal Income, U.S. Congress
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Critics revive past promises to knock Obama budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocates for seniors say President Barack Obama is breaking his promise to protect Social Security, while conservatives say he is breaking his promise not to raise taxes on the middle class. Obama's budget proposal includes a...
Tags: Economic Indicator, Consumers, Retirement, Health Insurance, Taxation
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How Republicans raided the welfare state and left it flat broke
I would like to add some points to former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich's column "How the welfare state has grown" (April 7). Mr. Ehrlich fails to mention the fact that every president since Lyndon Johnson, beginning in 1964, has raided the Social Security...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, Ronald Reagan, Trade Agreements, Economic Organization, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Obama a liberal? Hardly
As someone who voted for Barack Obama twice and contributed to his campaigns, I am disgusted by the president’s betrayal of the poor, elderly and disenfranchised in his proposal of chained CPI for Social Security benefits. Chained CPI recalculates...Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, Justin Bieber, Politics
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A lazy budget
WASHINGTON -- There is something profoundly timid about President Obama's proposed $3.778 trillion budget for 2014. Stripped of boasts about "investments" for the future and a responsible "balance" between deficit reduction and economic growth, the budget...
Tags: Economic Indicator, Medicaid, Health Insurance, Inflation and Deflation, Personal Weapon Control
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