Hundreds of surplus New Jersey state computers almost went out for auction with their hard disks still full of the most confidential ID information. Data included taxpayers’ Social Security numbers, reports on child abuse suspects, a judge’s tax returns and a list of state employees’ computer passwords. A late-stage audit of computers in the New Jersey surplus-property warehouse found sensitive information in storage on more than three-fourths of the hard disks.
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President Obama has dipped his toe in a pool of contentious policies -- tax breaks, a health care overhaul, allowing gays in the military and, most recently, entitlement reform -- opting to quietly cobble together coalitions instead of issuing decrees.
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President Obama insisted Tuesday that he did not duck the tough choices in his budget proposal for 2012, which was widely panned for doing too little to reduce the federal deficit and nothing to address budget-busting problems with entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
"Nobody is more mindful than me that entitlements are going to be a key part of this issue," Obama said during his first press conference of the
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A 30-year-old man was robbed of his green card, Social Security card and cell phone in the Tenderloin district Sunday morning, police said.Cops are hunting two men in their late 20s for robbery at the intersection of Ellis and Leavenworth streets around 6:05 a.m., police said.One suspect put a knife to the victim’s stomach and searched his pockets, while the other claimed the stolen items, police said. The suspects fled and there have been no arrests.
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One of the most-commonly suggested ideas to trim budgets is to raise the ages at which individuals can become eligible for government programs like Social Security or Medicare. A new study that came out in the U.K.
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Perhaps government is more like a zombie than a parasite. Especially given that about $1 billion in taxpayer money goes to 250,000 deceased individuals (according to a review of reports by the Government Accountability Office, inspectors general, and Congress itself). How, might you ask? According to Sen. Tom Coburn’s, R-Okla., office:
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National Journal’s Reid Wilson reports on the mixed results of a poll on the potential GOP platform for 2010:
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My only question: What is the other 40 percent smoking?
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