by Jane Richey | Mar 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The U.S. Department of Agriculture-administered food stamp program does not check the Social Security Number (SSNs) of some of its 46.3 million recipients, many of whom are using the numbers of dead people and invalid SSNs to get benefits potentially totaling $1.1...
by Jane Richey | Mar 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Some of the record total of 46.3 millions recipients of food stamps–a federal welfare program–have traded their benefits at a discount with corrupt retailers to get cash to buy drugs and weapons, the inspector general (IG) for the Department of Agriculture...
by Jane Richey | Mar 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The White House confirmed Thursday that President Barack Obama personally lobbied Democratic members of Congress to get them to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that is projected to have created about 20,000 direct jobs in the United States, and more jobs...