Posted on February 21st, 2013 by Tom Schatz
Incoming Joint Economic Committee Chairman Kevin Brady’s (R-Texas) National Review Online op-ed, “What Kind of Cuts Grow the Economy,” makes it clear that the right kind of spending cuts will increase economic growth and create jobs. The op-ed cites a report from Republicans on the Joint Economic Committee that showed how countries that reduce deficits through spending [...]
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Posted on February 15th, 2013 by Luke Gelber
If President Obama’s State of the Union Address could be said to have a message – a common thread, as it were – that message might have been, “There is a whole pile of wonderful legislation with bipartisan support just waiting to be passed. What are you waiting for, Congress?” Unfortunately for the President, reality [...]
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Posted on October 18th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
HUD presently spends $400,000 per year providing up to $15,000 for individuals to complete their doctoral dissertations in subjects relating to housing and urban development. The money may be used for “stipends, computer software, the purchase of data, travel expenses to collect data, transcription services, and compensation for interviews. Grants cannot be used for tuition, [...]
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Posted on March 9th, 2011 by Leslie Paige
This little video clip appeared on RealClearPolitics today. President Obama is giving a speech up in Boston…and in this :47 second sound bite, we all get to see a perfect example of the Bizarro World that Obama lives in, along with Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid and so many others. In this clip, he has already been preening about all of the [...]
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Posted on March 1st, 2011 by Leslie Paige
Yeah, we know that repitition is the key to learning. That is true for most people, but not, apparently, for those very special people in Congress. Still, kudos to Sen. Coburn and the GAO for, once again, reminding us that there is….(wait for it), waste in the federal government. Remember this the next time somebody tells [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2011 by Luke Gelber
On Sunday, Princeton economist, NY Times columnist, and former Enron adviser Paul Krugman published a piece called “Leaving Children Behind,” in which he accused Texas politicians and budget-cutters across the country of shortsightedness and cruelty. Since CAGW is among those cold-hearted advocates for lower spending, I thought it might make sense to point two of [...]
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Posted on February 18th, 2011 by CAGW Staff
The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste applauds Chairman John Kline (R-MN) of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) of the Subcommittee on Higher Education, and Representatives Alcee Hastings (D-FL) and Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) for introducing an amendment that will defund the Department of Education’s proposed Gainful Employment rule. We [...]
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Posted on February 15th, 2011 by CAGW Staff
The Department of Education’s so called “Gainful Employment” rule is expected to be published any day now. Touted as a means of stemming student loan default rates, the new regulation throws the baby out with the bathwater by making it close to impossible for students to earn a diploma at a for-profit college. Default rates [...]
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Posted on January 19th, 2011 by CAGW Staff
Citizens Against Government Waste has always been a fan of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), but there is indication that they may have gotten something wrong. Norton/Norris, which describes itself as, “helping colleges and universities with recruiting, lead generation, admissions training, direct mail, television advertising, mystery shopping and more for over a decade,” just released [...]
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Posted on December 13th, 2010 by CAGW Staff
Back on November 23, 2010 Citizens Against Government Waste blogged about an education issue that hadn’t gotten much attention: …the DOE [Department of Education] has proposed unfair “gainful employment” rules which call for for-profit schools (and just for-profit schools) to prove their graduates are either paying back loans or are capable of doing so. If [...]
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