From Joel Gehrke at the WashingtonExaminer.com:

More Americans rely on their families for assistance than the government, so federal officials have undertaken an effort to help people to apply for federal assistance.

“Given that only 15 percent of you turn to government assistance in tough times, we want to make sure you know about benefits that could help you,” USA.gov announced today. The ”government made easy’ website has created a “help for difficult financial times” page for people to learn more about the programs.

The government got that statistic from a poll asking Americans what helps them the most during tough times. Here are the results:

• Savings 44%
• Family 21%
• Credit cards/loans 20%
• Government assistance 15%

“Government assistance comes in different forms—from unemployment checks and food assistance to credit counseling and medical treatment,” USA.gov reminded readers.

Absolutely wonderful!  But wait — !

Fornicalia has gotten into the mix as well — with CalFresh.  Fornicalia determined that: “The CalFresh Program, formerly known as Food Stamps and federally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), can add to your food budget to put healthy and nutritious food on the table. The program issues monthly electronic benefits that can be used to buy most foods at many markets and food stores.”

Translated: the word “foodstamps” sounds too harsh and judgmental.  It’s time for another kitten-couched euphemism that further screws over Fornicalia taxpayers and enables even more parasitical, obese and tattooed Deadlings to sup from the trough of Free Cheese.

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From TheHill.com:

The Federal Communications Commission is eyeing a proposal to tax broadband Internet service.

The move would funnel money to the Connect America Fund, a subsidy the agency created last year to expand Internet access.

The FCC issued a request for comments on the proposal in April. Dozens of companies and trade associations have weighed in, but the issue has largely flown under the public’s radar.

Once again, removing money from YOU and ME in order to give not just iPhones, but internet services to the American “Poor” and, by extension, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

“If members of Congress understood that the FCC is contemplating a broadband tax, they’d sit up and take notice,” said Derek Turner, research director for Free Press, a consumer advocacy group that opposes the tax.

But here’s the kicker — and you knew this: you’re ALREADY TAXED for the internet!

Last year, the FCC overhauled a $4.5 billion portion of the Universal Service Fund and converted it into a broadband Internet subsidy, called the Connect America Fund. The new fund aims to subsidize the construction of high-speed Internet networks to the estimated 19 million Americans who currently lack access.

WHO, ladies and gentlemen, will finally begin to stand UP for the American Taxpayer who, literally, funds EVERY NATION on the planet?  Where is the TEA Party?

Who will stand UP?

Now go back and re-read this post, playing the above tune from “Revolver.”

BZ

Here’s our current state, America:

How many men actually walked on the moon?  What were their names?

No one can tell you.

But everyone can tell you — if they lived through those days — the name of the first man to step foot on our moon: Neil Armstrong.  (Young people who didn’t live through those days can barely tell you the name of the state they inhabit, much less the name of one astronaut, however.)

Mr Armstrong passed away Saturday in Cincinnati, Ohio — of complications arising from his four-way cardiac bypass surgery on August 8th, three days after his 82nd birthday on August 5th (1930).

[The correct answer: 12 men walked on the moon.  They were:

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