Now that Sarah Palin is done playing celebrity (hopefully), she gets to go back to work in Alaska and face some big problems: Palin’s state budget proposal is due in a month, with plummeting oil prices slashing Alaska’s revenues by billions of dollars. The 1,700-mile natural gas pipeline she bragged about on the campaign trail […]
It seems like the hands opening up for the free government money, aka the bailout, are increasing faster than our unemployment numbers. Now the insurance companies are lining up for their Christmas gifts: Several insurers, including Hartford Financial Services Group and Genworth Financial Inc., made last-minute bids for billions of dollars in government money Friday. […]
Nothing like a good scandal coming out of the Bush ran government to kick off our election season: Government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties improperly engaged in sex with employees of energy companies they were dealing with and received numerous gifts from them, federal investigators said Wednesday. The alleged transgressions involve 13 […]
Jim Cramer was on Hardball tonight talking about the economy and Bush’s big plan. To say he isn’t impressed with Bush’s plan would be an understatement. Like Cramer points out – how much do tax credits help? No one will see those for months, if that. The economy doesn’t have that long. Besides that the […]
We all know billions of dollars have gone missing in Iraq and Bush hasn’t batted an eye about it. I suspect we will see the same lack of concern over the billions wasted in Iraq: After the United States has spent more than $5 billion in a largely failed effort to bolster the Pakistani military […]
I mean they are suffering so much. Last year they only made mere billions in profit: Senate Republicans blocked a broad energy bill Thursday because it included billions of dollars in new taxes on the biggest oil companies. Democratic leaders fell one vote short, 59-40, in getting the 60 votes needed to overcome a GOP […]
And all other drugs for that matter. With the debate over gun control front and center again, we are constantly hearing that we can not ban guns because so many would be here illegally. Well isn’t that the same thing that happens with drugs? Why are we wasting billions of dollars fighting a loss cause? […]
In today’s radio address: To get the votes they needed to pass the bill, the Democrats who control the House also included billions of dollars in domestic and pork barrel spending for local congressional districts. This spending includes things like $74 million for peanut storage, $25 million for spinach growers, and a host of other […]
This is how incompetent the Republicans in Senate are: When angry Democrats briefly shut down the Senate last year to protest the slow pace of a congressional investigation into prewar intelligence on Iraq, Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) claimed a rare victory. Republicans called it a stunt but promised to quickly wrap up […]
And now you can forget Poland. This shows how Bush’s “staunchest allies” think of him now: ONE of America’s main allies, Poland, believes so many mistakes were made in the war in Iraq that any military intervention in Iran would be highly unlikely and the world would have to learn to deal with Iran having […]