Military Planes Unsafe Thanks To Poor Oversight
GAO has found continued “concerns with the [Pentagon’s] ability to collect and share the information needed to identify and mitigate aviation safety risks,”
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,…
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…
Pentagon Contractors
By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 26th, 2009The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) often is called “the congressional watchdog” and “the investigative arm of Congress.” On September 22nd, GAO released a…
Joe Wilson Contributors
By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 13th, 2009Addison (Joe) Wilson made something of a fool out of himself Wednesday night, during President Barack Obama’s speech to Congress discussing the dire need…
Criminalizing Homelessness
By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 13th, 2009The National Law Center on lessness & Poverty and The National Coalition for the less recently published a joint study entitled, s Not Handcuffs:…
Recovery Act Funds
By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 4th, 2009The Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is an economic stimulus plan intended to re-start America’sfaltering economy. But in allocating the Recovery Act’s highway…
Obama Regulating Wall Street
By Cliff Montgomery – July 27th, 2009A short Congressional Research Service report issued on July 17th discusses the first of President Obama’s”sweeping reforms of the financial services regulatory system.”The American…
FEMA May Lack Prepardness
By Cliff Montgomery – July 6th, 2009The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) lacks the ability to fully determine its emergencypreparedness–even though since 2003 the federal government has spent nearly $5…
Obama UNderfunds Consumer Agency
By Cliff Montgomery – June 17th, 2009President Obama’s budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 will continue a dangerous under-funding of theConsumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the top federal regulator of…
Bailout Asset Managers
By Cliff Montgomery – June 4th, 2009Billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are being spent to bail out Wall Street tycoons. Thus it’s perhaps understandable that the feds would hire private…
Oil Prices Rise
By Cliff Montgomery – May 31st, 2009Oil prices soon will post their greatest one-month spike since May, 1999. It’s still too early to determine if thissharp rise will usher in…
Pentagon Cyberweapons
By Cliff Montgomery – May 26th, 2009The Obama Administration is quietly creating a Defense Department command which will “develop newoffensive cyber-weapons,” according to a little-noticed article in The Washington Post…
Big Business Bankruptcies
By Cliff Montgomery – May 23rd, 2009There is discussion in the White House and on Capitol Hill of extending taxpayer-funded bailouts to a host ofother huge financial institutions, under the…
Workers Running Auto Giants
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 23rd, 2009Top executives at Chrysler Financial spurned a much-needed government loan because they couldn’t bringthemselves to accept its conditional pay limits, stated a study released…
Foreclosures Up 24 Percent
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 18th, 2009Nearly one quarter of U.S. households fell into danger of losing their homes during the first three months of2009–a free-fall that certainly will grow…
Soldiers Legal Rights
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr, 13th, 2009The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) is meant to protect servicemembers from “judicial andadministrative proceedings and transactions that may adversely affect their legal rights…
Senator Conrad Budget
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 8th, 2009Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) last Thursday on the Senate floor exposed a number of GOP distortions, half-truths and flat-out lies regarding that chamber’s Fiscal…
Gao Oil Gas Companies Royalties
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 2nd, 2009The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a tough review exposing the InteriorDepartment’s poor oversight of oil and gas companies which are allowed to…
Republicans Aig Bonuses
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 25th, 2009Senate Republicans appear set to effectively kill any reasonable attempt to reclaim the bonuses which”bailout” companies like insurance giant American International Group (AIG) are…
Bush Renditions
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 21st, 2009An eye-opening Congressional Research Service report issued on January 21st, 2009, the day afterPresident Obama took office, discussed the explosive subject of rendition–which the…
Gao Transportation
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 10th, 2009President Obama’s plan to rebuild U.S. infrastructure is both a vital effort to rebuild the country’s crumbling transportation system and a boost to its…