The Obama administration’s efforts to pressure Iran, Syria and others are inhibited by the government shutdown, White House press secretary Jay Carney suggested Friday. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has had to furlough all but 11 of its 175 full-time employees, “meaning that the office is unable to sustain its core functions,” […]
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a Sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. …Increasing […]
KLTV.com-Tyler, Longview, Jacksonville, Texas | ETX News A restaurant manager from Tyler, Texas, briefly became the world’s first trillionaire earlier this week—until his $4 trillion bank balance was found to be an online glitch. In an interview with KLTV, Reggie Theus said he would have used $3 trillion of his windfall to pay down the […]
Israeli tax authorities were surprised to discover a staggering 700,000 fake Viagra pills during an inspection this week at the Ashdod Port. According to Walla, the pills were found in a shipment of furniture from China intended for delivery to a Palestinian Authority resident importer. The pills would have sold for roughly NIS 20 million. […]
The House offered to fund Obamacare if Congress would delay the individual mandate and accept to live under Obamacare just like the rest of the American people. The Senate Democrats refused to compromise! Time Line of Continuing Resolution Debate: Friday, 9/20/13 – The House of Representatives passed a Continuing Resolution that would fully fund the […]
President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that he is “exasperated” by the government shutdown but announced that he would negotiate with the Republicans until they pass an extension of funding to reopen it. “If we get in a habit where a few folks, an extremist wing of one party – whether it’s Democrat or Republican […]
Raising the debt ceiling “does not cost taxpayers a single dime,” Pres. Obama declared in a speech today. In fact, raising the debt ceiling is “routine,” Obama said, addressing Republicans’ opposition to increasing the ceiling: “For example, one of the most important things Congress has to do in the next couple weeks is to raise […]
Yesterday marked the grand opening of the new Obamacare health insurance marketplaces, and the rollout did not go smoothly. Even more worrying is that these website errors are only the tip of the iceberg. Just a few weeks ago, Members of Congress and several experts challenged the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for […]
The news media, the President, and Congress should be cautious in trotting out “victims” of the government shutdown. As national media continue the hype, the furor over Washington furloughs will only take you so far in the rest of America. IN WASHINGTON: While the country’s national parks are closed and some federal employees are worried […]
Much like the day after sequestration budget cuts kicked in, most people will wake up today to find that the country and their lives aren’t much different. All the fearful fretting over shutting down the government—which is reaching Y2K proportions in the media—is really a distraction. Government funding isn’t the issue. It’s Obamacare. The House […]
