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The WasteWatcherSen. Harry Reid Hits a New Low
On Monday evening, March 18, seven U.S. Marines from North Carolina were tragically killed in a training accident at Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada.
The WasteWatcherObamacare Implementation: Delay and Do a Lot!
In the previous decade, Democrats joked about what they perceived to be Republican obstructionism in the U.S. House of Representatives by invoking the double-entendre epithet, “DeLay and Doolittle.”
The WasteWatcherCrisis in Cyprus – A Prologue for US?
No doubt many of you are aware of the financial crisis in Cyprus, a small country in the Mediterranean located near Turkey. The politicians in Cyprus, in an effort to prevent the country from goi
The WasteWatcherThe Emperor's New Clothes?
President Obama and his minions have been wringing their hands and warning us that the nation will face catastrophic hardships as the sequester is implemented.
The WasteWatcherIllinois: Land of Winkin'...and Nudgin' (Say No More!)
On Monday of this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it was suing the state of Illinois over a lawsuit that alleged that state officials had mislead investors over the health of their pension funds between 2005 and 2009.
The WasteWatcherGOP Budget: We Balance, They Don’t
Welcome to “Extreme Sports: Capitol Hill Edition.”
The WasteWatcherBig Sugar's Sweet Deal Gets More Costly
For many years, Big Sugar has claimed that the government's sugar program operates at no cost to taxpayers.
The WasteWatcherNo Surprise Here
“Obamacare Applications As Tricky As Your Taxes?” screams one of the many headlines from an AP report printed in newspapers across the country.
The WasteWatcherCongress Requests GAO Investigation into Broadband Overbuild
On February 13, 2013, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing on the broadband stimulus programs managed by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Rural Utilities Service (RUS).
The WasteWatcherMedicare Costs per Beneficiary are Skyrocketing
Although one of the main drivers of Medicare’s unsustainable cost structure is that as the baby boomer generation retires, more people will be enlisting and using its services, this is not the only driver.
The WasteWatcherPay No Attention to Those Political Appointees Behind the Curtain
Recently, the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard informed readers that President’s Obama’s top political appointees make an average of $142,691 annually.
The WasteWatcherProvocative Social Security Reforms
America has a significant, current and growing problem with both the absolute amount of entitlement spending, as well as the portion of total Federal governmental spending represented by this spending category.
