Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/30/high-speed-rail-a-national-security-priority/
April 30, 2010 - By Paul Scaglia
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/22/guns-vs-butter-2010/
April 22, 2010 - See if you can identify the bleeding heart liberal who said this:
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/21/2010-us-spending-priorities-58-to-military/
April 21, 2010 - ...housing assistance. Mandatory spending includes programs, mostly entitlement programs, which are funded by eligibility rules or payment rules. Congress decides to create a program, for example, Food ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/17/local-budgets-and-war-spending-a-reflection-for-ta/
April 17, 2010 - From every corner of America urban, suburban and rural the news of shrinking budgets and slashed community services sounds forth like a tragic Greek chorus.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/15/where-your-tax-dollars-went/
April 15, 2010 - Where your tax dollars went
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/13/price-of-war-too-high/
April 13, 2010 - As America inches closer to a decade of war, the cost increasingly is being questioned. People who years ago might have feared being called unpatriotic are lambasting the trillion dollars spent since ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/01/where-did-your-2009-federal-income-tax-dollars-go/
April 1, 2010 - NORTHAMPTON, Mass. - April 1 - As April 15, 2010 approaches, taxpayers can take stock of how the federal government spent each of their 2009 federal income tax dollars. In its annual release, Where di...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/22/students-go-gaga-want-out-of-bad-romance-with-obam/
March 22, 2010 - It's a Friday afternoon at Farragut Square, a genteel park just a few blocks from the White House in downtown Washington. Office workers, tourists and the occasional homeless person soak up the aftern...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/20/a-civilized-riot-a-movement-for-health-care-justic/
March 20, 2010 - Congressman Alan Grayson (D-Florida) has been waging his own war on corporate insurance forces determined to maintain the fiscal "slaver's whip" by proposing a straightforward public option plan throu...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/18/seven-years-later/
March 18, 2010 - Late last week, in advance of the release of proposed 2011 fiscal budgets by the state House and Senate, Massachusetts legislative leaders sent a message to local governments across the Commonwealth: ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/18/cost-of-wars-to-climb-as-congress-votes-to-continu/
March 18, 2010 - On March 10, 2010, Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich brought up a resolution to pull our troops out of Afghanistan within the next year. The bill was drafted to make Congress "claim responsibility ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/17/dutchess-taxpayers-have-spent-17-billion-since-200/
March 17, 2010 - Hi all...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/11/voters-must-choose-between-war-and-social-programs/
March 11, 2010 - To the Editor:
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/10/kucinich-forces-debate-on-end-to-afghan-war/
March 10, 2010 - Liberal lawmaker, Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), will open debate on the Afghanistan war in the House of Representatives, Wednesday. Three hours of debate on his two page resolution, H.Con....
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/09/hellman-describes-process-priorities-of-national-b/
March 9, 2010 - Chris Hellman, the director of the National Priorities Project, visited Elon's campus Tuesday night to discuss the distribution of federal funds, particularly to the military, which traditionally has ...
Analysis - /analysis/2010/the-presidents-budget-fy2011/
Feb. 8, 2010 - This publication reviews Presidential budget requests spanning fiscal years 2008 to 2012 which include requested spending authorities from the final Bush budget to the Obama administration's projected...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/02/02/dont-call-it-a-defense-budget/
Feb. 2, 2010 - ...housing, education, nutrition, mass transit . . ."When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, social programs must inevitably suffer," Martin Luther King Jr. pointed out. "We can talk about g...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/02/01/big-war-spending-continues-under-obama/
Feb. 1, 2010 - U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday proposed another two years of hefty spending in Iraq and Afghanistan, seeking Congress' approval for about $160 billion this year and again in fiscal 2011 to pay ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/30/pentagon-shifts-its-strategy-to-small-scale-warfar/
Jan. 30, 2010 - WASHINGTON—The Pentagon will lay out a long-term vision for U.S. national security on Monday that jettisons the military's decades-old belief that it needs to be prepared to fight two large-scale wars...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/15/jared-loughner-and-the-paranoid-style/
Jan. 15, 2010 - aul Street is an independent policy researcher, journalist, historian, and speaker. He is the author of several books, including 'Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11' and most rece...