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Tag: Government Spending

Homeland Security Spent $430 Million on Radios Its Employees Don’t Know How to Use

By Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica —

The recent inspector general’s report is the latest in a string of critical assessments DHS has received on its efforts to improve communication among federal, state and local agencies.

Posted on Nov 21, 2012 READ MORE

Paul Krugman’s ‘Twilight Zone’ Economics

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman employed a bit of imagination while discussing the need for fiscal stimulus on Fareed Zakaria’s “GPS” last week, playfully suggesting that the discovery of an impending alien attack would force ... (more)

Posted on Aug 15, 2011 READ MORE | 20 COMMENTS

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Krugman Takes Aim at Government Spending ‘Myth’

President Obama’s detractors apparently like to push the idea that he is responsible for jacking up government spending to new heights, but The New York Times’ Paul Krugman took it upon himself to do away with this “myth,” as he put it, in his column Sunday.

Posted on Oct 11, 2010 READ MORE | 39 COMMENTS

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Tea Partyers Give Sen. Bennett the Boot

Bob Bennett, three-term Republican senator from Utah, has been ousted from running for re-election by the conservative tea party movement after he was deemed unfit (he supported health care reform). Bennett came in third at the state Republican convention in Salt Lake City.