...Authorized Almost a TRILLION More for 2020. Less than a day after 2000 documents were published proving the govt knew the Afghanistan War was unwinnable, Congress approved nearly a trillion dollars more. Why aren't more people angry about this?
Last year, Trump Shut down the government when Democrats refused to fund the border wall. Last Spring, he vowed to never sign another last-minute spending bill. But now he plans to sign two new bipartisan spending bills totaling $1.4-trillion. The le
Because the government's voracious appetite for money, power and domination has grown out of control, its agents have devised other means of funding its excesses and adding to its largesse through taxes disguised as fines, taxes disguised as fees,
• https://www.albanyherald.com By Christina Maxouris
The Kern County Sheriff's Office -- with the help of the FBI and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife -- executed search warrants on 11 fields in the Arvin area, about 100 miles north of Los Angeles.
The vision of the Alliance is to achieve "a thriving nonprofit sector that has the resources and influence to meaningfully change the world." Its mission is to "be the authoritative voice of nonprofits to promote, protect, and strengthen the p
It was supposed to supply cheaper, greener energy to up to 5000 homes but after six years and tens of millions of dollars, a cutting-edge solar energy project has produced nothing other than a large taxpayer-funded pile of scrap.
They do nothing that warrants punishment and nothing of external value. That is their workday: errands for the sake of errands administering, refining, following and collaborating on process. "Process is your friend" is what delusional civil se
During this current partial government shutdown, President Trump has repeatedly threatened to declare a State of National Emergency and use the U.S. military to build his coveted wall across our southern border. And conservatives--even many of the o
I was flipping through TV channels recently and came across a show on Discovery or National Geographic about the swankest hotels in the world. The featured hotel on the particular episode was a hotel in Morocco that was preparing to host a United Na
Government creates a problem. Government becomes more authoritarian to solve that problem. This creates more problems. Government becomes even more authoritarian…
Since its inception in 1935, all funds collected that weren't disbursed to beneficiaries each year were converted into federal IOUs known as special-issue Treasury bonds. By law, the fund could do nothing else.
Right now, the U.S. government is operating in the negative on every front: it's spending far more than what it makes (and takes from the American taxpayers) and it is borrowing heavily (from foreign governments and Social Security) to keep the go
On February 19, I published a commentary about how the federal government couldn't account for $21 trillion and how the General Accounting Office concludes year after year that the nation's books are "not trustworthy" and not in compliance wi
--And They're Forcing Us to Pay For It
Both Congress and the Department of Homeland Security have never justified the biometric scanners at airports that could cost Americans $1 billion in 2018.
With President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner trying to find a middle ground that minimizes the damage the Fiscal Cliff would do to the economy, cuts to military spending must be on the table.
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