Were you angry when you found out that Governor Paterson was sending welfare recipients checks for school supplies that were being used to buy televisions? 
Well it’s getting worse. The federal government mistakenly sent out stimulus checks to 1,700 inmates, the Social Security Administration said Tuesday  a $425,000 error.
The inspector generals office for the Social Security [...]

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Millions of Seniors Citizens are facing smaller Social Security checks next year, for the first time in a generation those payments would not rise. 
The Social Security  trustees who are projecting no cost of living adjustment (COLA) for the next two years. That’s never happened since automatic increases were created in 1975.
By law, Social Security benefits cannot go down. Nonetheless [...]

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Senator Ted Kennedy died last night shortly before midnight. From ABC News:
Sen. Ted Kennedy died shortly before midnight Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 77.
The man known as the “liberal lion of the Senate” had fought a more than year-long battle with brain cancer, and according to his son had lived [...]

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