2006
For the Common Good - Making the Future SAFE for Posterity
Recently, the White House announced that this year’s federal budget deficit would be $296 billion. Believe it or not, that was taken as good news: Earlier projections had pegged the deficit as high as $425 billion. Next year, the deficit is predicted to rise to $339 billion.
If we continue this way, we will be guilty of, in George Washington’s words, “ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden of which we ourselves ought to bear.”
Gov. Romney Shuts Down Big Dig Tunnel
Gov. Mitt Romney ordered an immediate shutdown of the Ted Williams Tunnel's eastbound lanes Thursday as the investigation continued into a deadly collapse of ceiling panels in a connecting tunnel.
No reasons for the closure were immediately released. The governor has been overseeing the inspections of the Big Dig tunnels since shortly after the fatal accident July 10 that killed Milena Del Valle, 38, as she and her husband drove to the airport.
2005
'Historic Toilet' to Cost $24,000
A multi-million dollar restoration project will expend $24,000 to reconstruct a "historic toilet" on the first floor of a 1912 courthouse, authorities said.
2004
A taste for pork
McCain has become every Democrat's favorite Republican, and Stabenow did not enjoy colliding with him.
CAGW's 2004 Taxpayer Survey
Tell the Republicrats they're wasting your money!
The real issue on tax cuts
How much of a dollar does the average Amercian deserve to keep?
Waste Blog
from Citizens Against Government Waste
The appearance of corruption
by Paul Jacob
The art and science of scary 'cuts'
by Brent Bozell
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