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Sunday, March 26, 2017

News Factoids for First Quarter 2017

The Republicans' plan will reduce a middle-income 65-year-old’s Social Security benefits by 17% by 2030, without any tax increases to the richest Americans.

"Over the past eight years, the United States has sensibly reduced its nuclear weapons stockpile by 1,255 weapons."
~~ James McKeon, Policy Analyst at Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

U.S. scientists officially declared that 2016 was the hottest year on record. That makes three in a row.
~~ Washington Post, January 2017

Donald Trump is not the first loony to reign as Emperor of The United States: there also was Emperor Norton I [1819-80] who reigned in San Francisco for twenty years.

Elmo gets fired from P.B.S. due to Emperor Trump’s budget cuts
watch video [2:19] online at Facebook/Trending

OVERKILL DEPT.
Emperor Trump’s proposed increase in the U.S. Defense Department budget is roughly equal to EIGHTY PERCENT of Russia’s entire annual military budget.

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