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Heating oil subsidies for the poorest people in the US will be cut back, despite the unprecedented winter we’re still enduring. Despite bipartisan agreement among voters that the military budget should be slashed, it won’t be touched. Social Security recipients did not receive even a tiny increase last year, but the Pentagon’s budget will continue to rise with the rate of inflation.
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