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Farmers Take Heat, but Big Agriculture Reaps Farm Bill Benefits
Tallying up the farm bill, which Congress will likely vote on this fall, yields losers and winners. The losers: farmers, farm laborers, food processing workers, rural communities, the environment, poor... ...
Cheney SECRETLY Schemes To Start Iran War By Himself
The New York Times and CBS News are confirming a story we had already heard that Cheney is determined to suck the U.S. into a shooting war with Iran, provoked through back channels with Israel, if he can't... ...
Edwards Calls for Probe of Oil Industry
Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards on Thursday called for a federal investigation into possible anti-trust violations by the oil industry and criticized oil companies for raising gas prices.... ...
The real debt: US taxpayers on hook for $59 trillion
USA Today 05/28/07 The federal government recorded a $1.3 trillion loss last year — far more than the official $248 billion deficit — when corporate-style accounting standards are used, a USA TODAY analysis... ...
Evidence Shows Fraud at Federal Agency Cost Taxpayers Millions
In February 2005, an auditor at the General Services Administration (GSA) presented evidence to agency leaders that one of the government's top technology contractors was overcharging taxpayers. GSA auditor... ...
Feingold Rejects Compromise, Pushes Exit Strategy
Fifty-seven percent of Americans say that Congress should not compromise with President Bush in the Iraq War funding fight. That's the number that, according to a new CNN poll, wants Congress to give Bush... ...
Social Security Alert
by Rosalind Peterson The Bush Administration has started the drumbeat in 2007, to once again try to privatize Social Security, stating that this costly program should be changed because it will bankrupt... ...
Will Texas Capitulate?
by Lynn Stuter State governments and state agencies are nothing more than implementers of federal mandates accepted through voluntary application for federal discretionary grants. Taxpayers could save... ...
Katrina contracts blantantly illegal
Wichita Falls Times Record News 04/23/07 FEMA exposed taxpayers to significant waste — and possibly violated federal law — by awarding $3.6 billion worth of Hurricane Katrina contracts to companies with... ...
Conyers, Sanchez Seek Rove's RNC Emails
The burgeoning congressional focus on the supposedly "missing" emails of White House political czar Karl Rove and almost two dozen other presidential aides who were doing political work on the taxpayers'... ...