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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: calgal who wrote (160929)10/18/2013 3:14:35 AM
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Why our government runs out of money Bob Beauprez | Oct 18, 2013




Just in case you were not already sufficiently outraged by the intransigence of the President and Democrats to restrain federal spending however modestly, here are three more things to elevate your blood pressure.

  1. The final "compromise" passed by Congress late in the night October 16 to fund the government not only didn't reduce spending, it increased it!
"A Reuters review of government documents shows that the contract to build the federal Healthcare.gov online insurance website - key to President Barack Obama'ssignature healthcare reform- tripled in potential total value to nearly $292 million as new money was assigned to the work beginning in April this year."

"'Why this went from a ceiling of $93.7 million to $292 million is hard to fathom,' said Scott Amey, general counsel at the Project on Government Oversight, a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group that analyzes government contracting." more

  1. As small businesses continue to struggle throughout the U.S. the auto parts business is thriving…in Afghanistan.
"Just like GM, the U.S. governmenthas decided to give millions to another part of the auto industry — only this time it’s in Afghanistan."


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