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A Gorkha Welfare Scheme (GWS) has been introduced for these ex-servicemen and their dependents.
If you qualify for the 1040EZ form, are single with no dependents, and live at the same address as you did last year, you can file over the telephone using the TeleFile system--a process that takes about 10 minutes.
Most immigrants are supposed to have sponsors who stand ready to make sure they do not become public dependents.
Another development that has in the past served as an immediate warning of U.S. use of force: the withdrawal of nonessential State Dept. personnel and their dependents from embassies (in Israel and Kuwait), and of U.N. inspectors and humanitarian aid workers from Iraq.
Thus, welfare has created a group of permanent dependents, gun control has increased gun-related crime, and the war on drugs has created an immensely profitable drug trade.