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		<title>Did We Help Finance Marathon Bomber&#039;s Radicalization?</title>
		<link>http://wbsm.com/did-we-help-finance-marathon-bombers-radicalization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Paleologos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unmitigated chutzpah! What audacity! These Boston Marathon Bombers lived off us taxpayers! My blood is boiling! The state&#8217;s Executive Office of Health &#38; Human Services confirmed that in years past, the parents received welfare, and as recently as the end of 2012, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, his wife, who says she works 80 hours a week as a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unmitigated chutzpah! What audacity! These Boston Marathon Bombers lived off us taxpayers! My blood is boiling!
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		<title>Tamerlan Tsarnaev Received Massachusetts Welfare Benefits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Peterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tamerlan Tsarnaev reportedly hated America so much, yet he didn&#8217;t mind taking benefits checks.  The Boston Herald reports the marathon bomber was living on unemployment benefits as he was studying up on anti-American militant Islam. Officials say Tsarnaev and his wife, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, along with their three-year-old daughter received benefits until they stopped meeting [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tamerlan Tsarnaev reportedly hated America so much, yet he didn't mind taking benefits checks. 
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		<title>Mass. Police To Crack Down On Welfare Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Peterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[State welfare officials and local police have kicked off a new anti-fraud initiative. As part of the plan, agents will go undercover and try to use EBT cards improperly at retail establishments. DTA Commissioner Stacey Monahan says the police partnership is essential because the department does not have law enforcement capability.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>State welfare officials and local police have kicked off a new anti-fraud initiative.
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		<title>25 Million Welfare Dollars Going to Ineligible Mass. Recipients</title>
		<link>http://wbsm.com/25-million-welfare-dollars-going-to-ineligible-mass-recipients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Paleologos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year us hard working Massachusetts taxpayers are paying $25 million to welfare recipients who are NOT legally eligible to collect! What&#8217;s more, we are forking over money to people who fail to prove the child is related them, can&#8217;t provide proof of citizenship and many who are working on the side! And, can you believe [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every year us hard working Massachusetts taxpayers are paying $25 million to welfare recipients who are NOT legally eligible to collect!
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		<title>19,000 Welfare Recipients Missing in Massachusetts</title>
		<link>http://wbsm.com/19000-welfare-recipients-missing-in-massachusetts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BJ Ragone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[deval patrick]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly a half a million welfare recipients were sent letters by the State in regards to a lawsuit, but 19,000 of those letters came back marked &#8216;return to sender&#8217;. So where exactly are these 19,000 missing people who might have been getting government assistance? The Governor tells Fox 25 in Boston&#8217;s Sharman Sacchetti that the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nearly a half a million welfare recipients were sent letters by the State in regards to a lawsuit, but 19,000 of those letters came back marked 'return to sender'.
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		<title>Judge Judy Clip Shows Us Exactly What is Wrong With the Welfare System</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Braley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually get too political here but this &#8216;Judge Judy&#8217; video sums up exactly what I feel is wrong with the welfare and aid system in this country. I have no problem with helping people when they need it or helping people get back on their feet, but COME ON! This guy is completely [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don't usually get too political here but this 'Judge Judy' video sums up exactly what I feel is wrong with the welfare and aid system in this country.
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		<title>Did Mitt Romney&#039;s Comments About Welfare Sound Like Government Controlled Poverty? [POLL]</title>
		<link>http://wbsm.com/did-mitt-romneys-comments-about-welfare-sound-like-government-controlled-poverty-poll/</link>
		<comments>http://wbsm.com/did-mitt-romneys-comments-about-welfare-sound-like-government-controlled-poverty-poll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Paleologos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GOP Presidential Candidate, Mitt Romney, is in a bit of trouble after some comments that he made about the poor, feeling &#8216;entitled&#8217;. In the video mentioned, Romney says that 47% of Americans are &#8216;dependent&#8217; and have a sense of entitlement. While he may be right, do you think the government is to blame for this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GOP Presidential Candidate, Mitt Romney, is in a bit of trouble after some comments that he made about the poor, feeling 'entitled'.
<p class="more_act text"><a href="http://wbsm.com/did-mitt-romneys-comments-about-welfare-sound-like-government-controlled-poverty-poll/" title="Did Mitt Romney&#8217;s Comments About Welfare Sound Like Government Controlled Poverty? [POLL]">Read More</a><em>|</em><a href="http://wbsm.com/did-mitt-romneys-comments-about-welfare-sound-like-government-controlled-poverty-poll/#comments_wrap" title="Did Mitt Romney&#8217;s Comments About Welfare Sound Like Government Controlled Poverty? [POLL]">Comment</a></p>
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		<title>Let Them Eat Cake, Unless They&#039;re On Welfare</title>
		<link>http://wbsm.com/let-them-eat-cake-unless-theyre-on-welfare/</link>
		<comments>http://wbsm.com/let-them-eat-cake-unless-theyre-on-welfare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Braley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press ran a story yesterday that caught my eye, &#160; A Massachusetts baker is refusing to sell her sweets to customers who want to use their welfare benefit cards, the EBT cards. Andrea Taber sells whoopie pies at a farmers market in Braintree, but she doesn&#8217;t think the welfare recipients should be able [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Associated Press ran a story yesterday that caught my eye,</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>A Massachusetts baker is refusing to sell her sweets to customers who want to use their welfare benefit cards, the EBT cards.<br />
An
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