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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…

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…

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…

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:…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 5th, 2009An industry survey has revealed that a whopping 48 percent of those with a sub-prime, adjustable-ratemortgage either are failing to keep up with their…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 4th, 2009Republican state governors such as Bobby Jindal (Louisiana), Rick Perry (Texas) and Haley Barbour(Mississippi) recently have produced quite a spectacle with their rejection of…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 18th, 2009For too long, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has been little more than a second-tier federal agency. But America’s current economic…