court said the federal government could not single out gay couples for stigma and disadvantage. after the ruling, two arkansas couples went to their clerk s office and asked for a marriage license and they made sure they got turned down. rita jurnagen, the taller one, retired from the little rock schools after teaching math for almost 30 years. facing the very concrete nuts and bolts reality, that because she lives in arkansas, she cannot leave her retirement pay to pam. in the clerks office that day when they went to apply for the marriage license, the clerk s office let them fill out the form. they couldn t have been any nicer. people in the department cheered them on even as they turned them down. this month in ohio, which is another state that bans gay couples from marrying, two ohio men left their home state of ohio and went to get married in maryland. and they were in a hurry, because one of the men is dying.
asking voters directly for same sex marriage rights in arkansas. after the supreme court ruling last month in windsor where the court said the federal government could not single out gay couples for stigma and disadvantage. after the ruling, two arkansas couples went to their clerk s office and asked for a marriage license and they made sure they got turned down. rita jurnagen, the taller one, retired from the little rock schools after teaching math for almost 30 years. facing the very concrete nuts and bolts reality, that because she lives in arkansas, she cannot leave her retirement pay to pam. in the clerks office that day when they went to apply for the marriage license, the clerk s office let them fill out the form. they couldn t have been any nicer. people in the department cheered them on even as they turned them down. this month in ohio, which is another state that bans gay couples from marrying, two ohio men left their home state of
last month in windsor where the court said the federal government could not single out gay couples for stigma and disadvantage. after the ruling, two arkansas couples went to their clerk s office and asked for a marriage license and they made sure they got turned down. rita jurnagen, the taller one, retired from the little rock schools after teaching math for almost 30 years. facing the very concrete nuts and bolts reality, that because she lives in arkansas, she cannot leave her retirement pay to pam. in the clerks office that day when they went to apply for the marriage license, the clerk s office let them fill out the form. they couldn t have been any nicer. people in the department cheered them on even as they turned them down. this month in ohio, which is another state that bans gay couples from marrying, two ohio men left their home state of ohio and went to get married in maryland. and they were in a hurry, because one of the men is dying.
disability is run, lacks many controls that state and private sector programs have. state plans tend to have stronger anti-fraud provisions. the federal government s anti-fraud provisions are basically we trust the worker to tell us the truth. reporter: under such a system, disability amounts to a lucrative retirement plan, pays 75% of wages and is tax free. by comparison, federal retirement pay is only 60% of wages and is taxed. the federal government has little incentive to crackdown on abuses, because funding for all agencies, $3 billion a year, is automatically appropriated, run through department of labor. the u.s. postal service with legions of letter carriers tops the list of federal disability claims at 40%. in a statement to fox news today, the postal service inspector general said worker s comp has become an unintended retirement system. the labor department is not addressing these abuses and has
up. the report is available on the internet. but is 99.9% redacted. so, in essence, we failed going through the prescribed channels. so, that edward snowden chose not to go through the proper channels doesn t surprise you. no, it doesn t. whistleblowers within the intelligence community virtually have no protections. and, in fact , there s been recent legislation proposed to give agency heads to remove people, people s retirement pay after retiring from the agency. did you ever feel that your own government was against your efforts, you know, to better the country? yeah. it was shocking. it began inside nsa first when we had made huge breakthroughs. in fact, the deputy director from nsa back then was bill