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President Obama wanted transparency, he said. He wanted accountability also. Nearly eight hundred billion dollars being spent in a stimulus bill was a lot of money and Obama wanted to use it to stimulate the economy and create jobs. A CBS News article from February noted that "Mr. Obama said the...
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Guess what’s in the health bill Congress has been working on? Aside from terrible policies designed to put our nation on the path to single-payer government care that will bankrupt the country and harm the health of millions of Americans, I mean. The Boston Globe reports: Tucked within is a provision...
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Is the duty of our government not the welfare of its people? Is the government not obligated to better the lives of its own citizens? Are elected officials not supposed to care for the citizens they represent? Why then is our president, Barack Obama, agreeing to send $100 billion to China and India ...
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Yesterday, in his weekly address, President Obama called on Americans to "summon the same spirit that inhabited Independence Hall two hundred and thirty-three years ago". This is one time when I can get behind President Obama's sentiments - although he may not like my reasons for it. What...
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In May I blogged I see dead people...'s stimulus checks. It turns out that stimulus checks being sent to dead people wasn't a fluke mistake limited to the rushed stimulus bill, we've been sending Social Security checks to dead people for years. McClatchy reports on a recent federal audit...
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Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) is coming under scrutiny for an earmark request for an exclusive private club. The Seattle Times has the story: A $250,000 request to fund a "window repair and limestone sill replacement" at The Rainier Club — one of Seattle's premier private clubs, whose...
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Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) released a report highlighting waste in the stimulus package. The report, entitled 100 Stimulus Projects: A Second Opinion , is a counter to the Obama Administration's Recovery Report: 100 Days 100 Projects. The top ten most wasteful projects in the report are: 1. “Free”...
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This week will mark four months since President Obama signed the stimulus bill into law. Four months later, unemployment has reached a 26 year-high, and only $44 billion of 'stimulus' money has been spent . Ironically, a recent Rasmussen poll shows that four months after passing the largest spending...
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Last week it was revealed tha t $120,000 in federal stimulus money, originally intended to help clean up Ononadaga Lake in Central New York and rebuild local infrastructure, would actually be used to pay for the printing of a pamphlet about the lake cleanup -- and the pamphlet wasn't going to be...
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The intrigue continues with the PMA Group and its questionable ties to high-ranking House Appropriations Committee members and their earmarks. Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-Ind.), chairman of the Energy and Water Subcommittee, announced this week that he would temporarily hand the responsibility of overseeing...
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Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) has become the poster child for everything that is wrong with the earmarking process. (Read a prior blog post on the Murtha Airport .) He uses his seniority and position on the Appropriations Committee to secure earmarks which he then passes on to companies he has personal relationships...
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It's easy to knock the earmark process when citing examples like $1.9 million for the Pleasure Beach water taxi service in Connecticut or $1.8 million for swine odor and manure management research in Ames, Iowa. But when it comes to defense earmarks meant to protect our men and women in battle, it...
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How eager is President Obama to spend tax payer money to "spread the wealth?" So eager that stimulus checks are being sent out to people who died more than forty years ago. Fifty-two million stimulus checks will be sent out by the Social Security Administration by June, with SS admitting that...
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It’s A Stimulus Stupid! Part Two! Last week when I left all you wonderful viewers we were talking about the alternative minimum tax increase found in the American Recover and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Now it is our duty to move on and uncover more of the nonsense that was passed off as “stimulating...
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Last week, I wrote about the $635 billion pricetag on President Obama's planned health care reforms. The retooling of the system would cost 150 percent of the cost of the omnibus spending bill and roughly 80 percent of the cost of the stimulus bill, to put it in perspective. While this number is...