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LGBT News 3 States End Resistance to Spousal Benefits Order

Discussion in 'Current Events, World News, & LGBT News' started by HuskyPup, Dec 1, 2013.

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  1. HuskyPup

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    OK, here's some relatively good news!

    From the NYT: (NOV 27)

     
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    You mean Oklahoma actually did something intelligent for once?
     
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    It would appear so!
     
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    Texas actually did something that made sense? What a concept!
     
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    Actually it kinda ticks me off how Texas is compiling with it. The federal government is providing, personal, equipment, and paying for space, to do the benefit processing.

    That way the state can say look, we are not providing same sex benefits, that is the federal government. That is just childish in my book, and a waste of money. There are already people and equipment for this stuff, so the state should just let them do their job.
     
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    I think Texas would blame the federal government no matter what.

    Texas would probably blame the federal government if it was stuck by a giant meteor, besieged by swarms of locusts, or, if all of the sudden, swept away by a cataclysmic tidal wave. In Texas, it seems to me that almost everything is the fault of the federal government, especially when a Democrat is in the Whitehouse.

    I'm happy that they've made it easier for people to claim their benefits...after all, Texas does get hit by hurricanes, tornadoes and other natural disasters where the National Guard helps out, so why make it harder on the people who this kind of work?
     
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