Biden Directly Confronts NRA and 'Black Helicopter Crowd' as Gun Deal Looms

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1. Tell 'em, Joe. 'Unworkable federal database?'

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Obama’s ‘70 million checks’ per month: Actually, it’s even more than that.

By Alec MacGillis,July 26, 2011

If nothing else, the crisis over the debt ceiling is reminding the country of the astonishing reach of the federal spigot, encapsulated by a figure that President Obama tossed out recently: The government sends out “70 million checks” every month.

That works out to 27 payments per second, day after day — not just to the expected recipients, such as contractors, federal workers and Social Security beneficiaries, but also to those you might not think of, such as the victims of black lung disease and their widows (50,032 checks in June), and pensioners supported by the Railroad Retirement Board (613,912).

Obama used the figure to illustrate the dire consequences if the government fails to raise the debt ceiling by the Aug. 2 deadline. This week, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner upped the figure to 80 million in making a similar point.

The mind-boggling number challenges a common critique of the federal government as a creaky apparatus where tax dollars are lost in the bureaucratic cracks. From the vantage point of the 70 million or 80 million checks, the government is a finely tuned machine that brings in revenue and disperses it back out across the country...

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-07-26/politics/35266839_1_checks-veterans-benefits-social-security

And that was just in 2011. And if one goes to the link, the article is much longer and comprehensive about what is really going out to keep the American people healthy, housed and fed. Ask the people who live on those checks if they show up or not.

If Congress doesn't shut things down or defund a gun registry, that database is working every second of the day. They want chaos, and the American people need to realize that benefits their owners and not Americans. As usual, the NRA and the RWers are lying about everything.