At this point, there should be little doubt that there is a concerted attempt underway to use the war in Afghanistan as a justification for punitively taxing high earners.
Last weekend (noted at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), the New York Times discovered that wars cost money. [...]
You’ve got to hand it to the propagandists at the AFP. When heavy-hitting members of the party they favor announce an idea whose main purpose is, as the New York Times suddenly “discovered” last weekend, to remind people that wars cost money and distract from supposedly [...]
Yep. I'm talking about the stimulus again.Okay, feedback time here at BSB. Last weekend over 60% of you said you supported Brunner over Fisher, but the public narrative seems to be overwhelmingly the exact opposite. So what is she doing wrong? Money is obviously important, but it’s not everything. How does she wrestle control of the [...]
Gov. Strickland had some of the strongest words of disdain for Senate Republicans and Sen. Bill Seitz, in particular.
Senate Republicans put forth a truly odious bill that would balance the budget by cutting money from a fund that prevents families from becoming homeless and relying on liquor profits, casino [...]
The hard-working folks over at Recovery.gov, ever on guard for that rare instance of government inefficiency that occurs only once in a decade or so, have responded with commendable speed to news reports of erroneous/incompetent/fraudulent data in the records of stimulus money spent to save [...]
Really, who knew?
In what appears to be the opening round of a rearguard action against what leftists used to call “the good war” (only because they felt they needed to pretend they had pro-war bona fides to make their anti-Iraq War arguments look stronger to the general [...]
I am so screwed. According to CNNMoney list, the number one most stressful overworked and underpaid job in America happens to be my profession. Social Work. Checking in at number thirteen is substance abuse counseling. The subset of Social Work that I practice.
Ohio Senate Conservatives have proposed taking money from homeless to give the wealthy a tax break. No joke. Email them right now and help stop this.
Late yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee unveiled a proposal to balance the $851 million budget deficit which includes cutting the [...]
Republican Sen. George V. Voinovich of Ohio today introduced, along with Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, a bill allowing emergency first responders in places such as Franklin County to use federal grant money to maintain equipment, not just buy new equipment.
The Senate bill mirrors a House proposal [...]
Senate Republicans are going home until December without fixing the $851 million state budget shortfall.
With only five or six Republicans willing to support it, a GOP-crafted plan to fill the budget hole through a partial income tax cut delay, casino licensing fees and raiding money designed to help [...]
If you can identify the performer, the performance auditor and the free market in the comic below, then you understand performance auditing and its limits. If you can act on that understanding even after the money starts flowing and you have responsibility for either performance or performance auditing, then you [...]
The divided Senate Republican caucus wont be rolling out its plan to fill the budget shortfall today.
The 21 Republican members are meeting right now behind closed doors trying to figure out which plan will generate enough votes, and enough money, to fill the $851 million budget hole. The [...]
The federal stimulus package so far has given Ohio State University's research work an $82.5 million boost, says Caroline Whitacre, OSU's vice president for research, who will talk about that today at an event in Washington with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Whitacre and other members of the Association of [...]
I just looked up the summary of Ohio data on Recovery.gov and here's some of what I found. Compare the numbers for jobs created/"saved" and money wasted spent for Ohio's 18 congressional districts, and the numbers for the ten nonexistent districts that turned up.
District Jobs Porkulus 1 - Dreihaus (D) 349.7 $1,063,584,388 2 - [...]Perhaps this was inevitable: Politics will play a role in deciding which states get federal stimulus money to build high-speed railroads.
So says the editor of Railway Age, who notes that the Federal Railroad Administration's ostensibly "merit-based" selection process will inevitably include political considerations.
States have submitted $100 billion [...]
Beaker sent this email to me:
With the city claiming they are doing away with the curb-side leaf pick up to save money, here is what ticks me off.
On Monday, I saw the street sweeper go down my street actually sweeping AROUND the piles of leaves that have been placed there [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot and talking with a lot of people about the passage of Issue 6 in Cuyahoga County and what its aftermath is likely to be. My colleague Damian Guevara and I shared some of our thoughts in this article in Scene.
http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/money-talked/Content?oid=1732101
Following a campaign based [...]
Republican Senate candidate Tom Ganley, the car dealer from Cleveland who has said he will put up millions of dollars in his own money on the race, is on the air statewide with an ad that aims to highlight his ability to create jobs, according to his campaign.
Ganley [...]
If you didn’t watch last night, the video and the print story is online, FOX Toledo tracks the money for project. FOX Toledo has been the only news station that has consistently reported on the Marina District and the fact that the $3.6 million check that was due on [...]
Of course the president and Congress are after money, but they really want control over your life.
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Note: This item originally appeared at Pajamas Media and was teased here at BizzyBlog on Saturday.
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The House’s latest iteration of ObamaCare now weighs in at 1,990 pages. That’s hundreds [...]
