So much for Hope and Change. In Washington, the Obama administration is business-as-usual.
The AP Wire reports that despite campaign promises to take a machete to lawmakers’ pet projects, President Barack Obama is quietly caving to funding nearly 8,000 of them this year.
“So much for the promise of change,” Arizona Sen. John McCain said in the [...]
The Economist reports that two judges in Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County admitted sentencing thousands of children to jail in return for kickbacks from a prison-management company. Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan received a commission for every day they sent a child to private juvenile detention centres run by Pennsylvania Child Care and a sister company. [...]
Another prominent Republican told the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday that the president’s spending plans are pushing the country to the brink of socialism.
Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, the only member of the senate to earn a perfect rating from the American Conservative Union, called President Obama “the world’s best salesman of [...]
CBS News reports that California Democrat Nancy Pelosi is asking for a much bigger jet — a government version of the Boeing 757 that can make the trip between Washington and her San Francisco home without stopping to refuel.
The speaker’s critics have dubbed it “Pelosi One.” Military officials are said to be grumbling about it, [...]
Recent news article spotted on Yahoo! News: Obama budget: Mammoth deficits but headed lower.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama charted a dramatic new course for the nation Thursday with a bold but contentious budget proposing higher taxes for the wealthy and the first steps toward guaranteed health care for all — accompanied by an astonishing $1.75 [...]
Welcome to The ICTAMOTS Society, a long-existing society of like minded people who are tired of government waste, sensational media and other opponents to the American Dream.
In an era of ballooning federal deficits, proposed tax hikes, corporate greed and record fraud, people are demanding change - they are sick of our Washington leaders bathing in [...]