thank you Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart.

http://www.alternet.org/belief/year-jail-not-believing-god-how-kentucky-persecuting-atheists

A Year in Jail for Not Believing in God? How Kentucky is Persecuting Atheists

In Kentucky, a homeland security law requires the state’s citizens to acknowledge the security provided by the Almighty God--or risk 12 months in prison.
November 21, 2012 |

In Kentucky, a homeland security law requires the state’s citizens to acknowledge the security provided by the Almighty God--or risk 12 months in prison.

The law and its sponsor, state representative Tom Riner, have been the subject of controversy since the law first surfaced in 2006, yet the Kentucky state Supreme Court has refused to review its constitutionality, despite clearly violating the First Amendment’s separation of church and state.

“The Democratic Staff of the Committee on Education and the Workforce estimates that one 200-person Wal-Mart store may result in a cost to federal taxpayers of $420,750 per year – about $2,103 per employee. Specifically, the low wages result in the following additional public costs being passed along to taxpayers:

$36,000 a year for free and reduced lunches for just 50 qualifying Wal-Mart families.
$42,000 a year for Section 8 housing assistance, assuming 3 percent of the store employees qualify for such assistance, at $6,700 per family.
$125,000 a year for federal tax credits and deductions for low-income families, assuming 50 employees are heads of household with a child and 50 are married with two children.
$100,000 a year for the additional Title I expenses, assuming 50 Wal-Mart families qualify with an average of 2 children.
$108,000 a year for the additional federal health care costs of moving into state children’s health insurance programs (S-CHIP), assuming 30 employees with an average of two children qualify.
$9,750 a year for the additional costs for low income energy assistance.”

from http://underthemountainbunker.com/2012/02/25/walmart-costs-taxpayers-1557000000-the-conservative-circle-of-life/

Also see
http://www.mindfully.org/Industry/2004/Wal-Mart-Labor-Record16feb04.htm

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Wanted to start a poll but I can't so if anyone else wants to please steal this post and do so and I'll delete this one.

From the original post at http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021483342

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All are pretty much on the same side here but there is still so much great discourse on just about everything from religion, guns, the last debate and a plethora of other subjects. Yet we still remain on the same side when it "all comes down to it."

I try to stay away from posts that I feel are polar to my opinion but I read them and enjoy the repartee that is bound to ensue (because of course my opinion is correct.) And I try to post things unoffensive to all but that never seems to work out.

I truly enjoy this forum in which like minded people can disagree and still get along. There's not much better fun than a good spirited debate.

God this sounds lame to me when re-reading.

Why in the heck are so many dissing Obama in this forum? I would expect support in the hopes of keeping Romney from becoming CIC.