Wasted War Spending – $900 More of it This Week!
Posted by Jim Harper
This week, the House and Senate may vote on the final version of legislation to spend more money in Iraq and Afghanistan. H.R. 2346 is called the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009. It will spend a little over $900 per U.S. family.
Now here’s a timely coincidence. The Commission on Wartime Contracting is slated to come [...]
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While You Looked the Other Way: $8,000 in Government Spending
Posted by Jim Harper
The drama of the financial services bailout, coming right at the end of the congressional session and the beginning of the new fiscal year, was very distracting. So distracting that it was easy to miss the partial/temporary spending bill that Congress hurriedly passed.
The bill (now law) is Public Law 110-329, the Consolidated Security, Disaster [...]
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Rocket Fuel in Your Water
Posted by Jim Harper
No, this is not about the latest energy drink.
The Environmental Protection Agency has decided not to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient called perchlorate that can be found in public water supplies around the country. The scuttlebutt suggests that the Department of Defense would be seriously on the hook if [...]
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