Posted on May 21st, 2013 by Silence Dogood
As I wrote last week, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has gotten herself into some hot water concerning her solicitation for donations for non-profit groups that will help with the implementation of Obamacare. She asked for donations from corporations, some of which are regulated by HHS, and foundations. Reuters reports the non-profit “Enroll America” seems to [...]
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Posted on May 17th, 2013 by Silence Dogood
The Washington Post had an interesting column a few days ago. It seems Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is asking for more money from health industry officials to help implement Obamacare since Congress is refusing to provide more funds. While the effort is caged as asking for “donations” it does not take [...]
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Posted on May 15th, 2013 by Silence Dogood
By now I am sure you have heard that the IRS targeted and harassed Tea Party and conservative groups that were trying to obtain non-profit status. If a group used words like “tea party” or “patriot” in their organization’s name or the phrase “making America a better place to live” it was enough to raise [...]
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Posted on March 20th, 2013 by Luke Gelber
In March of 2009, President Obama delivered a speech on procurement at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in which he excoriated the outgoing administration for its irresponsible spending on government contracts. The President explained that “Over the last eight years, government spending on contracts has doubled to over half a trillion dollars,” adding that “the [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
A signature plan of the Clinton administration, COPS was intended to reduce rising crime rates in the early 1990s by providing federal grant money for the hiring of 100,000 police officers to patrol American streets. Seventeen years later, the program has failed to reach its stated goals and has fallen victim to hundreds of millions [...]
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Posted on June 12th, 2012 by Maddie Eldridge
While Congress works to approve the 2012 Farm Bill before the current one expires in September, lobbyists for the domestic sugar production industry have been pouring into Washington, fighting any attempts to cut or dramatically alter the federal government’s sugar program. It should come as no surprise that U.S. sugar producers are fighting hard to [...]
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Posted on June 1st, 2012 by Tom Schatz
In the past week, following the publication of my May 22 Washington Times op-ed, where I pointed out that “The result of the ‘investment’ made by ‘Obama Capital,’ which has used hundreds of billions of dollars of the taxpayers’ money to ‘create jobs,’ has been a persistent 8 percent unemployment rate and annual trillion dollar-plus [...]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2011 by Leslie Paige
It’s a shame that the Obama administration didn’t pay as much attention to the details of Solyndra’s business plans and financial liabilities as it did to the details of the President’s photo op at the company’s facility on May 26, 2010. But, given the rampant mismanagement and weaknesses associated with the Energy Department’s whole loan [...]
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Posted on July 19th, 2011 by CAGW Staff
As the President’s failing economic policies force more and more Americans into accepting unemployment benefits, fraud and overpayments in unemployment disbursements have become disturbingly common. The Washington Post observed on July 3, 2011 that fraudulent unemployment disbursements totaled $17 billion in 2010, and a USA Today article published the next day noted, “In the 12 months [...]
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Posted on June 24th, 2011 by CAGW Staff
“We must get rid of stupid spending and pointless waste…Each taxpayer dollar is precious, and there is no excuse for wasting a single one,” stated U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in justifying the suspension of the International Scan program. LaHood announced the suspension in an email statement shortly after ABC News informed the U.S. Department [...]
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