The Obama administration is seeking to exclude from federal oversight its new $30 billion dollar small-business lending program. Obama’s rhetoric about transparency during the campaign was as phony as his vow to end the era of lobbying (last year was that industry’s best year ever in Washington).
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February 25, 2010 07:21
SEIU Boss Open to Serving on Obama Deficit Reduction Commission, Supports More Deficit Spending -now that makes sense
When the White House released its visitor logs last October, Stern was found to be the most frequent guest, stopping by 22 times—more than advisor John Podesta or former Majority Leader Tom Daschle—to visit Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, budget chief Pete Orszag, and seven times, President Obama.
Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) has requested that the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Channing D. Phillips, investigate Stern for the visits.
February 24, 2010 08:58
Rep. Pence: Stop Using Taxpayer Money to Fund Planned Parenthood
According to its 2007-2008 annual report, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America received $349.6 million in taxpayer funds through government grants and contracts.
February 24, 2010 07:50
Obama caught lying about ACORN involvement -where is the investigation?
Project Vote (a.k.a. Voting for America Inc.) is the voter registration/get out the vote arm of the ACORN empire of activism. Obama’s campaign paid another ACORN affiliate more than $800,000 to do voter work during the 2008 Democratic primary campaign.
February 19, 2010 07:15
New report exposes ACORN as partisan campaigner with ties to SEIU
The latest findings expand on a report the committee issued last year, which said that ACORN used overlapping charitable organizations to cover up that they were using their public funding for partisan political ends. The new report details both tactics and financial transactions between ACORN and its affiliates.
“Perceptions that ACORN is a charitable organization are simply wrong and part of ACORN’s efforts to deceive the American people,” Issa said.
February 17, 2010 06:01
USAID Steers No-Bid Haiti Contract to ‘Politically Connected’ Firm of Bill Clinton Friend-We Told You This Would Happen
Described as an “integrated risk management” firm, GlobalOptions is headquartered in Manhattan’s Rockefeller Plaza and boasts 10 offices across the U.S. The GlobalOptions subsidiary that executed the contract is James Lee Witt Associates (JLWA), the “emergency preparedness and management” consulting firm founded by the former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under President Clinton.
February 15, 2010 05:28
Future Bailouts of America -perpetual money machine at taxpayers expense
AS Washington spins its wheels on financial reform, it’s becoming painfully clear that the problem of entities that are too interconnected or “too politically powerful to fail” is also too hard for our policy makers to tackle.
February 12, 2010 06:44
Obama and the Government Employees Unions
But the real scourge has been on the expense side of the ledger: salaries and pension benefits given — and I do mean given — to government workers.
Public-sector unions have amassed great power to extract taxpayer dollars from politicians. Politicians reward government workers with our dollars, and they in turn are rewarded at election time by donations, free labor (phone banks, people who pass out flyers), and votes.
February 11, 2010 13:43
ACORN eligible for $3.99 BILLION in Obama 2011 Budget
The $3.99 billion comes from a congressional slush fund known as the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program, which is part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) $48.5 billion fiscal 2011 budget. CDBG grants, which are awarded to states and localities, pass indirectly to ACORN.
