State governments have developed a despicable habit of ignoring what the voters and their representatives identify as the official purpose behind many grants and fee collections. In too many cases, state governments display the arrogance of skilled thieves, diverting funds from the intended destination. Instead the funds are used to plug self-inflicted budgetary holes. Published […]
If You Want to Reduce the Federal Deficit, Try Cutting Government Waste: The Case of Mainframes
“We are going to go through our federal budget, as I promised during the campaign, page by page, line by line, eliminating those programs we don’t need and insisting that those that we do need operate in a sensible, cost-effective way.” — President-Elect Obama, November 25, 2008 Introduction: Mainframe Waste As far back as […]
Proposed Federal Program Would Waste Billions
Our editorial is published in the Buffalo News see http://www.buffalonews.com:80/149/story/515026.html …
Financial Collapse – Who’s to Blame?
In an online survey, we asked readers to identify who they believed to be most responsible for the recent financial collapse. In their response, most readers (42%) believed that the blame should be equally assigned to Wall Street, the federal government and main street borrowers/lenders. However, the federal government took second place, with 28%, ahead […]
Federal or State Insurance Regulation?
See this commentary in the San Antonio Express at http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/Feds_could_trigger_insurance_reform.html
