According to some accounts, the national debt is now in excess of $12 trillion. Heath Shuler’s debt clock, however, has not yet broken the $12 trillion mark. It is, of course, understandable that the federal government would not be able to track its finances with a tolerance tighter [...]
This CNN report highlights another dog-bites-man story: the federal government is wasting billions of your dollars in improper payments and fraud:
The federal government made $98 billion in improper payments in fiscal 2009, and President Obama will issue an executive order in coming days to combat the problem, his budget [...]
In the last 45 minutes or so, both Rep. Virginia Foxx and Rep. Howard Coble have joined the House debate on the freedom-killing bill that would give the federal government control over the health care decisions of every American.
[...]The federal government continues to encourage irresponsibility. It wishes to redistribute earnings, confiscated from taxpayers too poor to hire accountants to find tax loopholes, to persons naïve enough to suppose if they can’t make a down payment on a house they will somehow be able to keep up with [...]
A report out this afternoon from the U.S. Department of Education shows North Carolina saved or created 22,398 government jobs through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Barb Barrett reports.
The state legislature has used nearly three-fourths of the $1.2 billion grant it received from the federal government [...]
Because entrepreneurs don’t have what it takes anymore, the federal government is making up the difference with expenditures for synergy and rapid product realization. University centers can partner with economic development communities to provide consulting, mentoring, and engineering services.
[...]During the past several years I have been sending messages to our state and federal government officials. I’ve expressed my views and positions on up coming legislation and have asked them to vote accordingly. It’s very difficult for most individual citizens to keep up with all the mischief these [...]
You and I might believe it is fair to say that the rules applying to the federal government are listed in the US Constitution, the changes taking place are socialist concentrations of power, and what is needed is respect for the rule of law. Vice President Joe Biden, however, appears [...]
Thanks Bank of America and federal government.
Because the feds declared some interest charges on credit cards too high, banks like BAC are looking at simply slapping all cardholders with annual fees. Especially if you never incur interest interest charges by promptly paying off your bill.
Right now BAC’s credit card [...]
The Hill newspaper in Washington reports that Democrats plan to attack Senator Richard Burr for his apparent hypocrisy on the federal stimulus package.
Burr appeared in Bethlehem in Alexander County last week to present a $2 million check from the federal government to the local fire department to build a new [...]
