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partial list _____________________________________________________ Notice S.S. and the military are NOT on this list. These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting. It is worth reading to the end. * Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy -- $445 million annual savings. * Save America 's Treasures Program -- $25 million annual savings. * International Fund for Ireland -- $17 million annual savings. * Legal Services Corporation -- $420 million annual savings. * National Endowment for the Arts -- $167.5 million annual savings. * National Endowment for the Humanities -- $167.5 million annual savings. * Hope VI Program...

Can the President possibly believe that the Grand Bargain he proposed less than two years ago is somehow a raw deal? He is acting as if that's the case. Progressives are once again claiming the problem in deficit negotiations is intransigent Republicans. But looking back at the outlines of the deal the President himself proposed, it's Democrats who are not negotiating in good faith. This is true in at least two important ways. First, the President is not abiding by the balanced approach of spending cuts to taxes he identified. In April 2011 the President published his Framework for Shared...

EXCLUSIVE A searing report by the DOI concluded Alianza Dominicana (which received more than $66 million in city contracts over the years), was a fiscal wreck.....Democrat Rep. Charles Rangel defended a $2.6 million federal grant he steered to the group despite its finances. Investigators said Alianza founder and executive director, Moises Perez, was "self- dealing"......investing with board member Leving Soriano's LLC. Soriano then pitched an investment deal to board memebers; he had created a "fund" to provide loans to nonprofits -- including Alianza. Soriano invoked the Fifth and his partner, Kwame Parker, was said to be in Africa. Another latino...

Milton Friedman explains why spending other people's money for Obamacare or any other welfare payment never works. Click Here to see him explain.