Most Americans are clueless about what is in the Federal Budget. The Washington Post reported that Americans believe that just cutting foreign aid and reducing waste and fraud could help balance the budget, however foreign aid only amounts to 1% of the budget and waste and fraud is minimal too.

The biggest chuck of the budget? Entitlements. Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security consume about 40 percent of the budget. The next largest chunk goes to the military at about 25 percent. Interest on the federal debt is 6.5% of the budget.

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I my opinion it is just a matter of time before a new government is formed. Hopefully, democracy will rule the day and the new government will be friendly toward the United States and Israel. Only time will tell.

Recently, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera enacted a mobile and landline number portability law, which will allow users to change their operators without changing their phone number. Maybe this will cut down on the number of cell phones in Chile!

Freezing temperatures are continuing all over the mid-west and east and are even affecting the oranges and strawberry produce in Florida. Hopefully, the temperatures will rise again in the next couple days. We have been fortunate not to have the snow fall that other parts of the country have had.

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While they claim to be honest journalists that just want to give the public information, is there an alternative motive?

Amazon.com, who was hosting the site, stopped due to pressure from the government and the public. The site is now hosted in Sweden.

Rangel, who certainly must know the rules of the House, should be ashamed. Anyone who is running, or is already in political office, knows what is expected of them. Rangel, with all his excuses, still should have known better!

The president will be accompanied by 40 aircraft, 3,000 people, a fleet of cars and 34 warships, according to a string of blow-by-blow news updates. The Press Trust of India quoted an official in the state of Maharashtra pegging the cost at $200 million a day.

The White House pushed back on some of the numbers stating that it would not cost $200 million a day and 34 warships would not be sent. I wonder what the real numbers are?