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May 17, 2012 The Obama Record The Obama Record: The president has made Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital a target of his re-election campaign. That’s one way to divert attention from poor performance. It’s also a way to undermine capitalism. At a New York fundraiser Monday night, Obama called the free market “the greatest wealth generator [...]
Government bureaucrats are bankrupting the country By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Thursday, May 17, 2012 Fat cats with big salaries are once again the enemy of the left. At the local, state, federal and even international level, liberal politicians are clamoring for new levies on the selfish few living it up on easy [...]
By Doug McKelway Published May 17, 2012 FoxNews.com A study commissioned by Sen. Tom Coburn is casting doubt on whether taxpayers’ $18 billion annual investment in federal jobs training programs is paying off. “The vast majority of money we spend in job training doesn’t go to job training, it goes to employ people in those [...]
May 17, 2012 Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again. In September 2011, Saverin relinquished his U.S. citizenship before the company announced its planned initial public offering of stock, [...]
Regulators get ready to expand the too-big-to-fail club. May 16, 2012 – WSJ The ire over a trading stumble at J.P. Morgan shows how little taxpayers enjoy standing behind too-big-to-fail institutions. Remarkably, the same Federal Reserve that didn’t blow the whistle on J.P. Morgan’s “whale” trades is planning to make more such institutions. The exercise [...]
May 16, 2012 Budget Policy: As another fight over the budget looms, Democrats again choose to do nothing except blame those who try to fix the problem. President Obama and Senate Democrats are masters of this do-nothing game. House Speaker John Boehner went to the White House Wednesday to talk budget with President Obama. With [...]
Economic disaster looms for the birthplace of democracy By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Wednesday, May 16, 2012 The forces of big spending will have another shot at the polls next month in Greece. The Syriza party, which is strongly opposed to austerity programs, is expected to gain in the upcoming election. Unfortunately for [...]
‘America has moved away from individualism to government dependency’ By Brett M. Decker The Washington Times Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Rep. Ben Quayle was elected in 2010 by Arizona’s 3rd congressional district, which is in the Sonoran Desert in the Valley of the Sun around Phoenix. One of his popular campaign ads stated, “Barack Obama [...]
Boehner tells Obama to cross debt ceiling, tax hikes off his ‘to-do’ list By Emily Miller The Washington Times Wednesday, May 16, 2012 President Obama on Wednesday found out what congressional leaders thought of his gimmicky “to-do” list. The country is headed over a fiscal cliff, and House Speaker John A. Boehner said the only [...]
Published May 16, 2012 FoxNews.com Not bad for government work. A new in-depth database of federal worker salaries shows the government paid out a whopping $105 billion in salaries last year for most of its civilian workforce — to boot, the workers got $439 million in bonuses. The information, which was obtained and number-crunched by [...]
