Government Waste and Fraud

OBAMA’S $50 BILLION UNION BOONDOGGLE

TOWNHALL.COM Michelle Malkin Obama’s $50 Billion Union Infrastructure Boondoggle Wed, Sep, 08, 2010 President Obama calls his latest attempt to revive the economy a “Plan to Renew and Expand America’s Roads, Railways and Runways.” I’m calling it “The Mother of all Big Dig Boondoggles.” Like the infamous “Big Dig” highway spending project in Boston, this

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A NATION OF ENTITLEMENTS

WALL STREET JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 14, 2010 Obstacle to Deficit Cutting: A Nation on Entitlements By SARA MURRAY Efforts to tame America’s ballooning budget deficit could soon confront a daunting reality: Nearly half of all Americans live in a household in which someone receives government benefits, more than at any time in history. At the same

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POWERFUL UNIONS LOOSING THEIR PUNCH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 Union Power and the Christie Effect After decades of expanding political clout, organized labor is finding voters increasingly unreceptive to its high-tax message. By STEVE MALANGA In the midst of the contentious 2009 gubernatorial race in New Jersey, the state’s teachers union took a poll of its own members and found only

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OBAMA’S CLUNKER ECONOMICS

NEWS & OBSERVER By George Will September 12, 2010 WASHINGTON Looking back with pride, the British are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, when Churchill said of the pilots fighting the Luftwaffe: Never “was so much owed by so many to so few.” Looking ahead with trepidation, Americas are thinking: Never have

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REMEMBERING JANUARY 3, 2007

The day the democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009 it was actually January 3rd 2007 the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, the start of the 110th Congress. The Democratic Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd

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OUT OF CONTROL SPENDING IN CALIFORNIA

WALL STREET JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 4, 2010 Broke—and Building the Most Expensive School in U.S. History Benches that talk, a Cocoanut Grove auditorium, and a marble slab engraved with quotes from Ted Kennedy. By ALLYSIA FINLEY Los Angeles At $578 million—or about $140,000 per student—the 24-acre Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex in mid-Wilshire is the

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TARP AND ITS CONTINUING SAGA OF ECONOMIC WOES

AUGUST 31, 2010 TARP and the Continuing Problem of Toxic Assets It was a bold bet that the Treasury and Fed could engineer an economic recovery without allowing the repricing of U.S. housing stock. By ANDY KESSLER We should have eaten those toxic assets instead of sweeping them under the carpet. The Troubled Asset Relief

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TAXPAYERS SPEND HEAVILY ON THE G.M.’S NEW VOLT

NEW YORK TIMES July 29, 2010 G.M.’s Electric Lemon U.S. Taxpayers send $150 million to Volt’s Korean Battery Supplier By EDWARD NIEDERMEYER Portland, Ore. GENERAL MOTORS introduced America to the Chevrolet Volt at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show as a low-slung concept car that would someday be the future of motorized transportation. It would go

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