Benefits

�The number of Minnesotans without health insurance jumped nearly 30 percent over the past three years� The percentage of Minnesotans without health insurance jumped from 5.4 percent in 2001 to 6.7 percent in 2004�fewer Minnesotans are getting health coverage through their jobs, another sign that employers are cutting or scaling back health care benefits, because of the rising cost of those benefits�� ❋ Unknown (2009)

Use of an altered military discharge certificate to obtain benefits is punishable by up to one year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One of the main benefits is encouragement and motivation from hearing how others are getting on. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hate preacher Anjem Choudary has claimed he is proud to receive £25,000 a year in benefits from the British taxpayer because the money ‘belongs to Allah’. ❋ Unknown (2010)

McCain benefits from the lack of a united democratic party. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Growth in benefits is unsustainable,” it warned, going on to recommend fourteen measures of containment: nine “limited-risk initiatives” and five “bold steps.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Thus, although, as the Telegraph reminds us, Britain benefits from a certain influx of legal immigrants, we are also confronting ever larger numbers of immigrants, legal and illegal, who despise everything about this country except its welfare provisions and the criminal opportunities opened up by politically correct policing. ❋ Richard (2006)

(Yeltsin's popularity, and Russia's image, suffered from his occasional displays of public drunkenness; Putin benefits from a reputation for sobriety and takes care to imbibe modestly in public.) ❋ Unknown (2005)

Facing a substantial $7.5 million cut at last estimate, Pueblo school district officials are optimistic that they can realize long-term benefits from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the 2010 federal budget. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of the ways I think the government can save on Medicare without making any cuts to benefits is to stop allowing the wealthy to have Medicare in the first place even though they paid into the system, anyone with an income over $500,000 shouldn't qualify to have Medicare because those folks can afford to buy a health insurance policy of their own. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Let me get this straight, 'money borrowed to cover near-term benefits' is repaid to me in lower benefits to me in the future? ❋ Unknown (2009)

That money that's paying for near-term benefits is theoretically coming from the taxes paid by the people receiving those benefits. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Matt seems to be laboring under the delusion that the European system of extended paid vacations and other benefits is the same as working stiffs accepting a pay cut of up to 20% (assuming one of five days off, unpaid). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Given that limitation, Dr. Laura Svetkey, director of Duke University's hypertension center, said the study provides the best evidence yet of important long-term benefits from a low blood pressure diet. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I believe that a title benefits from a well documented site rather than a fully accessible file. ❋ Jak Boumans (2008)

Consequently, a lower salary with higher benefits is actually better than a staff job with high-salary but no compensation. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Great Maker; will not a purpose be assisted which will state the cause of the entire abolition of slavery in the United States, and which may defeat it altogether; which proffers to those who do not ask for them what it calls benefits, but which they consider injurious and which must insure to the multitudes whose prayers can only reach you through us, misery, sufferings, and perpetual slavery. ❋ Various (N/A)

as in 'friends with benefits [have sex], [whereas] 'friends without benefits' [do not] ❋ Catwmun (2005)

❋ Anonymous (2003)

"Fuckin' c'mon, Katie, [jus'] one more o' these [lil'] bastards [an'] we can get on some fuckin' benefits!" ❋ Parz (2006)

Them [thieving] cheating fuckin' [pikey] bastards down the road are on more BENEFITS then that woman off wife [swap] ❋ The Dole Scrounger (2005)

[lets go] get our benfits and then [rob] a [house]. ❋ Louise (2004)

"I lead an expedition in vision and competition In a prison when deliverin witherin rhyme litterin Givin and never endeavoring ever clever however bringin it whether together or on solo feathers" From The Song So Sick Check out [Benefit's] album [B.E.N].[E.F].I.T ❋ Mos Def And Kweli Are Blackstar (2005)

Professional, [upping] the [decibel] a decimal above Extraterrestrial audible vessels For blood audible missiles and vocal dismissals Like pistols tearing through MC's [skeletal] gristles ❋ Rusty (2005)

"Just [yank] [the tooth] out it will only hurt for a second you will [benefit] from it greatly." ❋ Lilp123 (2013)

[www].benefitcosmetics.com girl: mom why cant i got to the party?! mom: there was no [adult] supervision you couldve gotten [raped]! its for youre own benefit. ❋ --lynn-- (2007)

John didn't pay me back the $20 he [owes] me, but I'll give him [the benefit of the doubt] that he simply forgot and isn't trying to [rip me] off. ❋ Thremtopod (2016)