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Safe, Sound, Secure
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No Mo Money!
Secretary Robert Gates to Congress: Don't give the Pentagon any more money for the C-17 cargo plane or the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, we don't want 'em. Congress to Sec Gates: No thanks. We're going to give you more money for C-17s and F-35s. Gates to Congress: I will urge the President to veto any spending bills that contain money for the C-17 or the F-35. Congress to Gates: Bring it on. We're giving you the money. [Washington Post]
Posted 3:49 PM | Monday, May 17th, 2010 | Permalink
Money Money Money
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License and Registration, Please
As police departments look for ways to increase revenue, we have some bad news. That 10-mile-per-hour speed enforcement “cushion” is vanishing. Instead of allowing drivers a 5-10 mile window, police have started ticketing if you’re just two or three miles over. Experts say the no tolerance policy could also be attributed to increasing speed limits around the country. The story is not as simple as headline suggests, though, since one of the reasons there’s a cushion is to provide a margin of error to satisfy the courts. [USA Today]
Posted 2:02 PM | Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 | Permalink
Safe, Sound, Secure
What Money?
Here comes a flashback - the State Department is failing to properly oversee nearly $2 billion in contracts to battle the drug trade, build infrastructure and train police in Afghanistan, according to a bluntly worded internal assessment. De ja vu? Didn't we read about this with another war?
The report by the department's inspector general questions whether the U.S. will be able to stabilize the country in time to meet President Obama's goal of withdrawing some troops by June 2011. [USA Today]
Posted 4:05 PM | Thursday, March 11th, 2010 | Permalink
Right Wing Wackiness
Budget Roadmap to Nowhere
So, as for that Republican “budget roadmap...” As it turns out, not only does it call for sharp cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, defense, and all other government programs combined with privatization of Medicare so that a larger share of your diminished benefit goes to for-profit insurance companies, apparently when the Center for Tax Justice (PDF) ran the numbers, they discovered that most Americans will pay higher taxes under Ryan’s plan than under Obama’s. Only the very richest will pay less. [Yglesias]
Posted 3:56 PM | Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 | Permalink
Money Money Money
Things are a little different now
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA) was never a big fan of the stimulus bill – at least not when he was runner for Governor. He repeatedly criticized the bill, saying that although it was “massive,” he didn’t think it would “have a stimulus effect.” From the Virginian-Pilot in 2009:
How quickly things change, though. Now that he’s in office, apparently he feels differently. On Monday, McDonnell proudly “announced that Virginia will receive a total of $24 million in federal funding to advance health information technology” — money made possible by the stimulus, which McDonnell conveniently failed to mention. And yesterday, McDonnell went even further and asked for more stimulus dollars and said he would support Congress extending the stimulus bill. [ThinkProgress]
Posted 3:57 PM | Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 | Permalink
Money Money Money
SIGN OF THE TIMES
Blame it on the economy: Faced with a $50 million budget shortfall and a decline in enrollment, Kansas City, Missouri School Chief John Covington wants the school board to close as many as 31 of the city's 61 schools and lay off one-fourth of its employees — including 285 teachers. Twenty years ago, the district enrolled more than 75,000 students; the city now enrolls just 17,500, after facing the growth of charter schools. [USA T]
Posted 1:06 PM | Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 | Permalink
Money Money Money
CUTTING OUR BUDGET DEFICIT
President Obama sign an executive order earlier today, establishing the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. The commission's mission is to try to figure out ways to reduce the federal budget deficit to 3 percent of gross domestic product in five years and to propose ways to curb the high costs of medicare, medicaid and social security. The group is set to be chaired by former President Clinton Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and former Republican Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson.[Fox News]
Posted 11:46 AM | Thursday, February 18th, 2010 | Permalink
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