The Truth About Who's Responsible For The Explosion In Government Spending
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Government Waste
USDA Announces Grants For Beginning Farmers
• Compiled by staff farmfutures.comExpanded grant program will provide resources for farmers in 24 states
79% of GM's sales last month were government purchased
• www.pushbacknow.comRemember how obama keeps telling us how he saved GM, and how our economy is getting better, it seems the car company he bought is being saved by Govt employees using our tax money to buy new cars.
If You're An American Taxpayer, These Are Your Most Recent Defense Purchases
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Walter HickeyNot even the Fourth of July could stop the Pentagon from an absolutely massive week of defense spending.
When Governments Spend Wealth Instead of Building It
• http://lewrockwell.com, by Bill BonnerAmerica’s historic health care overhaul, certain now to touch virtually every citizen’s life, narrowly survived an election-year battle at the Supreme Court Thursday with the improbable help of conservative Chief Justice John Roberts.
US reportedly abandons plans for Afghan consulate after already spending $80M
• http://www.foxnews.com, MAZAR-E SHARIFUS officials abandoned plans to open a consulate in northern Afghanistan over security concerns -- despite spending more than $80 million on the site, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
GAO: Medicare experiment wastes $8B
• http://www.dispatch.com, By Robert PearMedicare is wasting more than $8 billion on an experimental program that rewards providers of mediocre health care and is unlikely to produce useful results.
U.S. funding for Egyptian military to resume, senior administration officials say
• William Wan, Washington PostHillary Clinton is close to announcing plans to bypass Congressional restrictions (recent law) for fear of worsening already fraying ties with Egyptian leaders and disrupting American jobs and U.S. defense contracts that make up the bulk of the milit
Green Firms Get Fed Cash, Give Execs Bonuses, Fail
• www.abcnews.go.comPresident Obama's Department of Energy helped finance several green energy companies that later fell into bankruptcy -- but not before the firms doled out six-figure bonuses and payouts to top executives, a Center for Public Integrity and ABC News in
The Pentagon Has 6 Bomb-Zapping Ray Guns (Which May Be 6 Too Many)
• By Noah Shachtman and Spencer AckermanSince January 2006, the Pentagon has spent more than $18 billion trying to stop insurgent bombs — funding everything from radio frequency jammers to electronic dragnets that hunt bombmakers’ phone calls.
California's High Speed Rail Costs Are Getting Absolutely Out Of Control
• www.businessinsider.comIt started out benign enough. In November 2008, California voters passed Proposition 1A, which authorized the issuance of $9.95 billion in general obligation bonds to fund the first stage of a high-speed rail link between Los Angeles and San Francisc
Bankrupt Solyndra Caught Destroying Brand New Parts
• CBS San FranciscoAfter filing for bankruptcy last year, Fremont solar company Solyndra still owes American taxpayers half a billion dollars. But CBS 5 caught them destroying millions of dollars worth of parts.
New bill would block public access to publicly-funded studies
• www.rawstory.comTaxpayers would have to shell out $15 to $35 to get behind a publisher's paid site to read the full research results. A Scientific American blog said it amounts to paying twice.
Bankrupt Solyndra seeking to pay bonuses
• www.washingtontimes.comNow seems an unlikely time for handing out bonuses at bankrupt Solyndra LLC, but that’s the plan of company attorneys intending to dole out up to a half-million dollars to persuade key employees to stay put.
New financial watchdog vows to protect consumers
• www.reuters.comPresident Barack Obama's nominee to head a new financial watchdog agency said on Wednesday he was ready to get to work, and would not be distracted by challenges to his appointment.
Government as venture capitalist
• cafe hayekSolyndra, the solar-panel maker that received more than half a billion dollars in federal loans from the Obama administration only to go bankrupt this fall, isn’t the first dud for U.S. government officials trying to play venture capitalist in the en
'Bloated' Federal Workforce Rises 12% as Rest of US Goes Jobless
• newsmax.comCivilian unemployment has mushroomed, sticking above 9 percent for months, although many experts put the real figure in the 18-20 percent range. Meanwhile, the number of federal employees has grown 12 percent since the official start of the recession
A device that used lightning to attack roadside bombs - Contract Cancelled - Why?
• News LinkThe heart of Applied Energetics’ technology is an old idea: using a Tesla Coil-like device to shoot artificially created lightning. Such technology could, in theory, be used to pre-detonater IEDs, the roadside bombs that remain the leading killer of
Cost of air conditioning for U.S. troops in MidEast more than NASA budget
• http://www.rawstory.com/The United States spends $20.2 billion annually on air conditioning for troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan — more than NASA's entire budget, NPR reported.
Citing War Strain, Pentagon Warns Against Spending Cuts
• http://news.antiwar.com/Speaking today to the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates reported that cuts to military spending would mean a military that “will be able to go fewer places and be able to do fewer things.”
GAME ON! $3 Billion Mamizu MACC Contract for Guam Military Buildup Re-Emerges
• guam buildup newsGUAM – The U.S. Navy today set a June 21 deadline for bids on the Mamizu multiple award construction contract and said it will start off the $3 billion in works with a seed project "immediately" after the prime contractors are chosen.
The U.S. Postal Service Nears Collapse
• Bloomberg BusinessweekDelivery of first-class mail is falling at a staggering rate. Facing insolvency, can the USPS reinvent itself like European services have—or will it implode?
Job Training Sprawl Costs U.S. Taxpayers $18 Billion per Year!
• Gregory Korte, USA TodayThe Federal Government spends $18 billion per year on 47 separate job training programs run by nine different agencies.
War-zone contracting escapes close scrutiny
• www.battlecreekenquirer.com"tens of billions of dollars have failed to achieve their intended use in Iraq and Afghanistan," according to an interim study draft report obtained by the Associated Press.
Are You Letting Leftist Fear Stop Medicare & Soc Sec Reform?
• www.drscoundrels.comWhat is it with the left and their attempts to make sure that nothing the right does or says EVER gets any credit or viewing - we just wrote an article detailing the attacks on real viable cuts and now attacks on fixes for two entitlement programs do
Breaking News : Teleprompter Error Solves Communication Mystery
• The PPJ GazetteAcross the Nation simple folk have wondered how Congress has completely misinterpreted questions from the average citizen. Now, Timmy Technology has come forward to explain the disconnect. “It’s simple really” he is quoted as saying from his pa
Pork Finds A Way: F-35 Funding Obama Threatened To Veto Now In Budget Bill That Pentagon Endorses
• Sam SteinThe omnibus spending bill includes $450 million to keep the alternate-engine program for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter -- a defiance, as has been noted, of the White House's and Pentagon's long-standing objectives.
FDA and Milk Regulation
• The PPJ GazetteThe FDA has apparently decided that a certain sector of milk production in the United States does not have enough regulation in sales, barter or sharing. This agency would direct one to this statement: “Risks… include exposure to infectious disea
Destruction of Largest Wyoming Wild Horse Herd Underway Despite Public Outcry
• The PPJ GazetteRock Springs, WY (October 12, 2010)—Amid nationwide protests, today 122 more healthy wild horses were rounded up by helicopter in the Adobe Town/Salt Wells Wild Horse Herd Management Area Complex. The current three-day roundup total is 320, not inclu
CSU must reveal Sarah Palin speech contract, judge rules
• Christian Science MonitorSchool administrators denied having correspondence about it, and students found shredded documents about the visit in the administration’s dumpster. Palin gave the speech June 25, and was paid $75,000.
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