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Watchdogs Aren't Sure

Chris Adams, McClatchy Newspapers: "Although hundreds of well-trained eyes are watching over the $700 billion that Congress last year decided to spend bailing out the nation's financial sector, it's still difficult to answer some of the most basic questions about where the money went."

http://www.truthout.org/080909T?n



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/09-4

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How the Government's Billion-Dollar Cash for Clunkers Boondoggle Hurts the Poor
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north741.html

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Fallacies of the clunker program

Tibor's Space
by Tibor R. Machan

08/09/09

Most have no time to consider the big picture so when the clunker program comes their way, they think only of the immediate consequences. It all reminds me of those horrible failed urban renewal government plans to raze innumerable small city communities and built huge high rise apartments, plans that Robert Moses of New York City pushed on New Yorkers all the time, which the late Jane Jacobs, the brilliant theorist of city life, opposed most of her life. But when you present the artist conception of the new high rises it tends to look kind of cool and many people are seduced by them. Same with the clunker trade in program — I will just toss my old jalopy and get me shiny new wheels. Never mind that the money you get from the government will eventually come out of your or, especially, your children’s and grand children’s pockets and the clunkers will end up in some junk yard that will cost millions and millions to clean up...

http://tibikem.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B2FD693F4B9A5746!1051.entry



The real clunkers in this deal

Reason
by Steve Chapman

08/10/09

Cash for Clunkers has been a thrilling moment for advocates of expanded government, who say it proves what we can accomplish when our leaders put their minds to it. They are absolutely right. The program proves the federal government is unsurpassed at two things: dispersing money and destroying things. Of course, it already proved that in Iraq. But for sheer rapidity of confirmation, this program is hard to beat. Cash for Clunkers managed to go through a billion dollars in about four days, vaporizing a fund that was supposed to last until Halloween...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/135318.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Military Recruiting Rises Among Middle-Class, Suburban Youths in Dallas-Fort Worth Area

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/08/03-3

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The Marines Are Looking for a Few Good High School Students
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance202.html



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Mass Inflation Ahead
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/rawles1.1.1.html

This Country Needs an Outburst of Common Sense
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/09-3



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U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. is poised to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA abuses committed during the interrogation of terrorism suspects, current and former U.S. government officials said.

http://snipurl.com/pj4xf


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President Obama has issued signing statements claiming the authority to bypass dozens of provisions of bills enacted into law since he took office, provoking mounting criticism by lawmakers from both parties.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/us/politics/09signing.html?hpw


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Faulty Forecasting

By Ralph Nader

Unlike sloppy plumbers and carpenters who pay a price for their mistakes, Wall Street forecasters seem to be paid very well despite being chronically wrong.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23228.htm



Hunger Hits Detroit's Middle Class

By Steve Hargreaves

On a side street in an old industrial neighborhood, a delivery man stacks a dolly of goods outside a store. Ten feet away stands another man clad in military fatigues, combat boots and what appears to be a flak jacket. He looks straight out of Baghdad. But this isn't Iraq. It's southeast Detroit, and he's there to guard the groceries.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23226.htm



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By John Nichols

Those of us who proposed the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney for violating his oath of office and engaging in a Nixon-on-steroids spree of high crimes and misdemeanors began to recognize the abusive nature of the previous administration when Cheney refused to release details of the industry insiders with whom he met to craft energy policies.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23227.htm



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