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 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 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 March 30th, 2011 by Leslie Paige
Today’s New York Times has a sharp critique of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) by someone with intimate knowledge of how poorly the program performed; Neil Barofsky, Special Inspector General for TARP. He sharply limns what went wrong, and also hammers the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), which was created to supposedly help millions of homeowners obtain loan [...]
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Posted on October 4th, 2010 by Leslie Paige
This should be the question on taxpayers’ minds when an October 4, 2010 article in The Los Angeles Times reported that $69 million of California welfare money was spent out of the state and on things other than basic necessities. Welfare is a government program meant to provide necessities to the poor. But, when millions [...]
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Posted on August 27th, 2010 by Leslie Paige
Wastewatcher, August, 2010 President Obama needs to pass a bill, but a powerful chairwoman of a Senate committee, who is in danger of not being reelected, adds a controversial and expensive provision that puts passage in jeopardy. Conventional wisdom says that the White House cuts a deal. And, unfortunately, that is exactly what happened at [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2010 by Leslie Paige
Today, CCAGW sent a letter up to the Hill supporting legislation which has been introduced in both the Senate and House to implement new, tougher disclosure and transparency rules for the congressional earmarking process. Make no mistake, CAGW favors outright elimination of the process, but, in the interim, taxpayers need to get eyes on more aspects [...]
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Posted on April 23rd, 2010 by CAGW Staff
The Securities and Exchange Commission is tasked ”to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation.” It now looks like some of the employees have been surfing pornography on government computers during work hours. According to an April 23, 2010 article in USA Today: Several senior staffers at the Security and Exchange Commission [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2010 by CAGW Staff
The Democrat majority in the House of Representatives is trying to give a whole new meaning to the term “Open Government.” On election night in November 2006 when Democrats won a majority of the seats in the House, soon-to-be Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi promised “the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by CAGW Staff
During the broadcast of this year’s Super Bowl, viewers were entertained by many expensive commercials. CAGW has already pointed out the outrage of taxpayers footing the bill for an incomprehensible ad to tell people that the census is a “Snapshot of America.” It was a pointless waste of $2.5 million of taxpayers’ money to employ Hollywood to tell [...]
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