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Target Looking Into Security Breach

Cybercriminals appear to have targeted the point-of-sale systems in Target’s retail stores, which collect information from customers’ credit and debit cards, and potentially personal identification numbers.

Cybercriminals appear to have targeted the point-of-sale systems in Target’s retail stores, which collect information from customers’ credit and debit cards, and potentially personal identification numbers. Chris O’Meara/Associated Press Cybercriminals appear to have targeted the point-of-sale systems in Target’s retail stores, which collect information from customers’ credit and debit cards, and potentially personal identification numbers. SAN FRANCISCO — Target is investigating a security breach involving stolen credit card and debit card information for millions […]

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A War on the Poor – NYTimes.com

If you're not reading Krugman you're not reading.

If you’re not reading Krugman you’re not reading.

Republicans are correct, government can be dangerous, especially when Republicans control the house. Cutting food stamps, cutting unemployment insurance, cutting Medicaid, cutting Welfare is not just cruel it’s unsound economic policy. The Multiplier Effect is Econ. 101. The more money in the system, the more it gets passed around. The more that money gets passed around the richer people get. Austerity is based on a lie. Seriously. The academic paper Republicans always cite for Austerity ended up using faulty Excel spreadsheets. (True) And so now we have a war on the poor. And just like Iraq it’s another war Republicans wage based on a lie. Why do we continue to trust the least educated to run our country? Read Krugman. He has a Nobel in economics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A War on the Poor – NYTimes.com.

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