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Drug Prices
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 19th, 2010In these days of slowed but continued economic depression, it’s good to discover such little-knowngovernment studies as the one quietly released in December 2009…
Us Health Care
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 12th, 2009As the U.S. Congress works to finalize its health care reform legislation, it must be pointed out that the House and Senate bills fail…
Us Health Care Costs
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 7th, 2010 The most current falsehood floating around the U.S. health care debate appears to be the oldest typical neo-conservative sophism against change. It is…
Us Financial Oversight
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 3rd, 2010U.S. financial regulation is piecemeal and many essential financial activities remain completely unregulated, according to a recent report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS).…
Military Commissions
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 27th, 2009The United States for the last several years has used military commissions to try suspected terroristsdetained at Guantanamo and elsewhere.In a criminal trial, the…
Sec Recommendations Ignored
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 22nd, 2009The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has failed to implement 224 recommendations submitted byits Inspector General since December 2007–or more than 60% of those…
Senators Health Care Poll
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 16th, 2009The U.S. public now sees Congressional plans to change America’s health-care system as little more than adisaster which can only create higher medical costs…
Senators Public Option
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 11th, 2009Recently have the feeling you’ve been cheated?No doubt that notion has been buzzing about your mind the last few days, if you’re among the…
Health Insurance Public Option
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 8th, 2009Senate Republicans who are opposed to any kind of public health-insurance option for you hope to requiremembers of Congress and all essential members of…
Us Taliban
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 29th, 2009A number of Taliban members should be recruited for U.S. ends, say some within the Obama Administration.Their central idea is that such deals with…
Us Poverty
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 25th, 2009The Great Recession has shown an awful ability to drive hard-working Americans into poverty–and to makepoverty especially dire for those who already had nothing.The…
Katrina Negligence
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 20th, 2009The U.S. government may end up paying billions of dollars in damages to New Orleans residents, now that a federal judge has ruled that…
Wage Theft
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 15th, 2009Employers are increasingly engaging in acts of wage theft against their workers, according to recent reportsfrom the Government Accountability Office (GAO).The GAO conducted an…
House Health Care Plan
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 10th, 2009The Congressional Research Service (CRS) on Oct. 30th, 2009, released an informative overview of theAffordable Health Care for America Act, which the U.S. House…
Kucinich Health Care Plan
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 9th, 2009The U.S. House of Representatives late Saturday narrowly passed a massive overhaul of America’s healthinsurance system.The Washington Post breathlessly hailed the legislation–called H.R. 3962…
Obama Ethics Waivers
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 4th, 2009The Obama Administration has granted some form of waiver to the president’s famed Ethics Pledge forseventeen appointees.The waivers exempt the appointees from Obama’s ‘revolving…
Global Recession
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 29th, 2009The Congressional Research Service (CRS) on Oct. 2nd issued a study on the Great Recession. The report’sconclusion? The financial pain is still with us,…
Arms Transfer Agreements
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 26th, 2009The United States was responsible for over 70% of the industrial world’s arms transfer agreements withdeveloping nations in 2008 , reveals a Congressional Research…
Health Care Costs
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 23rd, 2009Middle-class Americans will still struggle with huge health insurance costs if the Senate Finance Committeelegislation known as the Baucus Bill becomes law.The bill, put…
Greenspan Banks Too Big
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 18th, 2009The Obama Administration should break up all large financial entities considered “too big to fail,” former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently told a…
Obama Economy
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 12th, 2009Some in the Corporate Media already are crowing that Americans will not ‘tolerate’ another stimulus packageto bolster the anemic economy of Main Street.But then…
Aclu Domestic Spying
By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 10th, 2009 Three provisions of the Bush-era Anti-Patriot Act are set to expire on December 31st – Congress currently is debating controversial legislation to renew…