FL Attorney General Pam Bondi uses taxpayer dollars to go toHawaii
NEWS ALERT: ACCORDING TO JOURNALIST SCOTT MAXWELL OF THE ORLANDO SENTINEL, FL ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI ATTENDED THE CONFERENCE FOR WESTERN ATTORNEY GENERALS (July 10-13, 2011.) Journalist Maxwell...
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This just in: It’s hot in the summer — or so a new Smartphone app from the...
Your taxpayer dollars at work. If someone from Public Notice asked me whether this was an example of real or fake government spending, I would have unhesitatingly cried, “Fake!” But I would have been...
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Department of Labor IG report reveals Job Corps program inaccurately reports...
More taxpayer dollars wasted. Yet another example of the federal government’s inefficiency. Administered by the Department of Labor, Job Corps is “a free education and training program that helps...
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Green-jobs success: Jobs created … in Finland
Karma. The good news: One recipient of Barack Obama’s green-jobs stimulus subsidies figured out how not to lose $529 million in taxpayer dollars. Even better news: The funds appear to have actually...
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Union tries to fire trustee who asked to audit taxpayer funded account
Accountability! We should send out another big tip of the hat to Mark Flatten at the Goldwater Institute for yet another piece of investigative journalism where he discovers some of the rather...
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Beacon Power follows Solyndra into bankruptcy
$43 million down the tubes. At the end of last month, I wrote about Beacon Power, a green-tech company that received over a hundred million dollars in taxpayer-backed credit but who teetered on the...
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New York City to promote traffic and pedestrian safety—through haiku
Rhythmic Under the stewardship of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York City has been second to none in adopting misguided, feel-good, ‘70s-ish initiatives that accomplish nothing beyond wasting taxpayer...
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Taxpayers fund more than $200,000 in bonuses for congressional staffers of...
Must be nice. Why not a membership to the jelly-of-the-month club? After all, that’s “the gift that keeps on giving!” But, no, nothing so affordable for the members of the staffs of three Vermont...
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Pelosi: Nothing brings more money to the Treasury than education
Hmm. At the El Paso County Democratic Party 2012 Hall of Fame banquet on Friday night, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi delivered a razzle-dazzle keynote address filled with profound and...
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Another green-tech stimulus recipient files for bankruptcy
The SOTU kiss of death? In last year’s State of the Union speech, Barack Obama hailed the great investment he made with taxpayer dollars in the manufacturer of advanced solar panels, only to have...
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Arizona legislature moves toward curbing union abuses
Right to work, not to coast Last year we brought you up to date with the efforts of the Goldwater Institute to fight union corruption and abuse of taxpayer dollars in Arizona. In what should serve as...
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Video: House committee voting tomorrow to subpoena WH officials over Solyndra
Deadline. Looks like Fred Upton has run out of patience with the White House on Solyndra, where a half-billion taxpayer dollars got flushed down the low-flush toilet by the Department of Energy. The...
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Report: Stimulus-backed solar company lays off 70 percent of workforce
A subsidy is a subsidy is a subsidy. Further evidence that when government officials usurp the role of the free market to choose winners and losers, they inevitably shuffle taxpayer dollars across the...
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Teachers unions: More good work if you can get it
Guess what the taxpayers are covering now Welcome to scenic and historic Buffalo, New York! It’s a great place, famous for chicken wings and an NFL team which holds a record which may never be broken....
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Why Democrats’ political ploys shouldn’t stop Republicans from standing up...
Brazen. In an obvious attempt to advance the “Republican war on women” narrative, Democrats have picked a fight with their congressional opponents over the reauthorization of the Violence Against...
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Parody: Party in the GSA
What did you always want at your birthday party but never had? Bankrupting America is out with a parody of the General Services Administration’s planning process for its outrageous Western Regions...
View ArticleYou have to see it to believe it: Inside footage of the GSA Western Regions...
GSA officials mock their own excessive spending. Never when I posted Bankrupting America’s parody of the planning proceedings for the General Services Administration Western Regions Conference did I...
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GSA Inspector General investigating potential bribes and kickbacks at agency
Explains Neely’s Fifth Symphony. This may come as a shock to readers, but the agency that spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on bogus, self-congratulatory “meetings” and bubble baths for...
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Newt Gingrich’s Secret Service is costing taxpayers tens of thousands of...
“Just another example of Newt’s arrogance and self-importance.” Newt Gingrich said he’d be in the presidential race until Tampa — and he’s showing every sign of keeping his word. For the most part,...
View ArticleAbeel v. Bank of America Complaint | The Laundering of Trillions of Dollars...
Abeel v. Bank of America Complaint | The Laundering of Trillions of Dollars of U.S. Taxpayer Money (copy of the complaint below) In a lawsuit alleged to involve the largest money laundering network in...
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House GOP: This Solyndra investigation is like “pulling teeth”
The stonewalling continues. I like that Solyndra has shown staying power in the political narrative — the whole boondoggle should be as common-knowledge as possible. As the flagship failure of the...
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Why Obama’s calls for more public-sector spending are not a good idea
A little less demagoguery, a little more critical thinking, if you please. As part of his recent push to energize the economy and create jobs, President Obama (like any good Keynesian) thinks it’s a...
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Key Solyndra figures get red carpet treatment at Democratic convention?
My Little Cronies. Want to know what Barack Obama’s second-term agenda will be? Looking at the VIP admissions to the Democratic convention, the assumption will be more Solyndras and more wasted...
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The Law Offices Of David J Stern…Still Causing Chaos and Wasting Taxpayer...
One of my biggest objections to the handling of Stern’s withdraw from 150,000 foreclosure cases in courts across the state is the way the firm just walked out…no substitution of a new law firm to...
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US INSPECTOR GENERAL: Banks Got Bailed Out, Consumers Got Screwed.
We all know that we are no longer a government , “For the People”. Ours is a government for Wall Street and for the banks. Nowhere is this more directly on display than in the housing/financial...
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BANKS VIOLATE SERVICEMEMBERS CIVIL RELIEF ACT, PAY $56 MILLION!
The banks have no problems…and in fact they are becoming quite adept at crushing, kicking, stomping the rights of every single American. They don’t care, but then again why should they….YOUR TAXPAYER...
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Treasury Official: “HAMP’s Incentives Meaningless” – SO, PROGRAM WASTED $560...
Okay, that’s not the headline you’re going to see elsewhere on top of this story, chances are it’ll be more like, “Federal Payments Halted to 3 Mortgage Servicers.” You may have already seen it....
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Mandelman’s Monthly Museletter – Version 13.0
MANDELMAN’S MONTHLY MUSELETTER — VERSION 13.0 Well, it’s almost officially summertime and that means… well, it means… it could mean… what I mean is… it might mean… Nothing. I’ve got nothing. So, fine...
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