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2023-11-25 Economy

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-11-25 09:38|| || Front Page|| [18 views ] Top

#1 Biden administration under fire after Pentagon requests $114 million for diversity, equity

Sure. Why feed Americans.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-11-25 09:43|| 2023-11-25 09:43|| Front Page Top

#2 The Talking Mop sez it's all a lie. Everything's fine

Posted by Frank G 2023-11-25 13:53|| 2023-11-25 13:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Nope. Inflation has gone down. Has to be wrong.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-11-25 14:08|| 2023-11-25 14:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Glad to hear this, my wife lost he job not long ago and she applied. Didn't even get the call when they were supposed to call and were denied. But of course we're white.

Posted by Chris 2023-11-25 14:12|| 2023-11-25 14:12|| Front Page Top

#5 How will this impact the secondary swap market for street drugs?

Posted by Super Hose 2023-11-25 14:24|| 2023-11-25 14:24|| Front Page Top

#6 I recall an actual welfare fraud case in the Central Valley of California in the early 2010's that involved Middle Eastern immigrants who ran a remote Stop and Rob style store-front gas station. They did a huge food stamp volume business, with monthly reimbursements over 300 k in EBT/SNAP sales. When investigators actually raided the place most of the shelf stock and food-stuffs that were not Halal were past Best-By dates, often significantly, and no where near the quantities for the level of sales claimed. But most telling, was the pre-raid surveillance that revealed relatively low daily customer traffic, far too few to account for the sales/reimbursement volume.
Later LE interviews had locals reporting that the shop owners would offer 40 cents on the dollar for the stamp account balances in cash. Turned out the entire set-up was fronted by Paki ex-pats with Hawala connections, and the US banking deposit safeguards for the volume of fraud were bypassed because the money went into Hawala channels and disappeared into the mists overseas

I cannot imagine the systems is any less corrupt these days.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-11-25 15:19|| 2023-11-25 15:19|| Front Page Top

#7 that has been going on for along time

Posted by Chris 2023-11-25 16:29|| 2023-11-25 16:29|| Front Page Top

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