FB: www.facebook.com Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now [Bridge] Dreaming. (oh oh oh oh) Of falling (mmm mmm mmm mmm) Dreaming (ooh oh oh oh) [BoB - Verse 1] (ya) Lets pretend like it’s 98 like i’m eating lunch off of styrofoam trays trying to be the next rapper comin out the A (A-town) Hoping for a record deal to ignore my pain (ya) now lets pretend like i’m on the stage and when my beat drops everybody goes insane (woo) okay and everybody know my name and everywhere I go people wanna hear me sing (oh) oh yeah and I just dropped my new album on the first week I did Five-Hundred Thousand gold in the spring and diamond in the fall and then a world tour just to top it all off and lets pretend like they called me the greatest selling out arenas with big ass stages and everybody loved me and no-one ever hated lets try to use imagination [Chorus] [BoB - Verse 2] Okay lets pretend like this never happened (never) like I never had dreams of being a rapper (rapper) like I didn’t write raps up in all of my classes like I never used to run away into the blackness now lets pretend like it was all good (good) like i didn’t live staring in a notebook (notebook) like I did the things that i probably knew i should (should) but Ii aint have …

Dean Baker, economist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research talks with Rachel Maddow about the economic impact of cutting back on unemployment benefits and food stamps and the economically simulative advantage to giving money to people who need it more and will therefore spend it.

A federal judge has set May trials for the owners of two Wichita grocery stores accused of trading cash for customers’ food stamps at a profit.

The number of Hawaii residents signing up for food stamps increased at a faster pace than the national average last year as state officials expanded eligibility for the program to help people suffering from the economic slowdown.

One in 6 Tarrant County residents can’t afford to eat enough healthy meals, but many of those people do not qualify for government nutrition-assistance programs, a new report says.

FB: www.facebook.com Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now [Bridge] Dreaming. (oh oh oh oh) Of falling (mmm mmm mmm mmm) Dreaming (ooh oh oh oh) [BoB - Verse 1] (ya) Lets pretend like it’s 98 like i’m eating lunch off of styrofoam trays trying to be the next rapper comin out the A (A-town) Hoping for a record deal to ignore my pain (ya) now lets pretend like i’m on the stage and when my beat drops everybody goes insane (woo) okay and everybody know my name and everywhere I go people wanna hear me sing (oh) oh yeah and I just dropped my new album on the first week I did Five-Hundred Thousand gold in the spring and diamond in the fall and then a world tour just to top it all off and lets pretend like they called me the greatest selling out arenas with big ass stages and everybody loved me and no-one ever hated lets try to use imagination [Chorus] [BoB - Verse 2] Okay lets pretend like this never happened (never) like I never had dreams of being a rapper (rapper) like I didn’t write raps up in all of my classes like I never used to run away into the blackness now lets pretend like it was all good (good) like i didn’t live staring in a notebook (notebook) like I did the things that i probably knew i should (should) but Ii aint have …

My commentary on two ATF agents claiming that they were ordered to allowed drug cartels to bring American guns into Mexico, oil prices rising again, urban population centers experiencing an exodus, home sales hitting a 9 year low and Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher attempts that the United States is heading toward insolvency. DEMCAD BLOG: Libya Bombing an Impeachment Offense! demcad.blogspot.com Oil tops $105 per barrel finance.yahoo.com ATF gunwalking scandal: Second agent speaks out www.cbsnews.com Detroit’s Population Crashes online.wsj.com US Approaching Insolvency, Fix To Be ‘Painful’: Fisher www.cnbc.com Home sales tumble, prices are near 9-year low news.yahoo.com McCaskill Admits Owing Back Property Taxes On Plane hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com Mitt Romney: If I Were President: Obamacare, One Year In www.nationalreview.com ‘We are not at war…,’ Fillon says www.france24.com If You Say “Protest” On A Phone In China, It Cuts Off Automatically www.businessinsider.com HARD DATA – 44 Million People In The US Use Food Stamps, Or 14.3% Of Population www.fns.usda.gov

My commentary on two ATF agents claiming that they were ordered to allowed drug cartels to bring American guns into Mexico, oil prices rising again, urban population centers experiencing an exodus, home sales hitting a 9 year low and Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher attempts that the United States is heading toward insolvency. DEMCAD BLOG: Libya Bombing an Impeachment Offense! demcad.blogspot.com Oil tops $105 per barrel finance.yahoo.com ATF gunwalking scandal: Second agent speaks out www.cbsnews.com Detroit’s Population Crashes online.wsj.com US Approaching Insolvency, Fix To Be ‘Painful’: Fisher www.cnbc.com Home sales tumble, prices are near 9-year low news.yahoo.com McCaskill Admits Owing Back Property Taxes On Plane hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com Mitt Romney: If I Were President: Obamacare, One Year In www.nationalreview.com ‘We are not at war…,’ Fillon says www.france24.com If You Say “Protest” On A Phone In China, It Cuts Off Automatically www.businessinsider.com HARD DATA – 44 Million People In The US Use Food Stamps, Or 14.3% Of Population www.fns.usda.gov

Conservatives want welfare reform alongside the entitlement reforms to Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare in the GOP budget proposal. Read more…

Sad wonder that cuts in food stamps are the latest proposal heading for the House Republicans’ budgetary chopping block.