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• • Obama's Medicaid budget spares program deep cuts,
    By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Associated Press, The Spokesman-Review Mobile, April 5, 2013 (Updated: 8:54 am). WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's budget next week will steer clear of major cuts to Medicaid, including tens of billions in reductions to the health care plan for the poor that the administration had proposed only last year. READ MORE:
  
  

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Most Recent Blog Posting: DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: A PLEA FOR FREEDOM By peter S. Kahrmann, NYSILC, Guest Blogger for May 2013. Dear Mr. President: There are at least 25 million people in this country living in slave-like conditions today. They need and deserve your help. I do not use the term slave-like conditions lightly. If we accept the Merriam Webster Dictionary’s definition of slavery, “(S)ubmission to a dominating influence,” and or the American Heritage Dictionary’s definition of slave, “One who is abjectly subservient to a specified person or influence,” then, no question about it, millions of Americans are currently enduring slave-like status.
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