From the auto industry to Wall Street to Main Street, it is highly unlikely that anybody in the country thinks that the country is not in a financial crisis.  The Government Accountability Office (GAO) just reconfirmed our worst fears in it’s latest report, Fiscal Year 2008 Financial Report of the United States Government, the country is massively [...]

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Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), never afraid to have to play the heavy when it comes to exposing government waste and mismanagement, has dropped a grimy lump of coal into Congress’ Christmas stocking.  A selection of the year’s most egregious wasteful spending items….. • $3.2 million on a blimp the Pentagon does not want • $367,000 wasted [...]

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Sneaking through the legislative process without any congressional hearings or deliberations, the REAL ID Act became law before most members of Congress had a chance to review it.  Latching on to the lapels of the May 2005 emergency spending bill, the Act exploited the fears many Americans still had after September 11.  Touted as an [...]

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