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Making Government Operations More Open
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Ron Paul has been right on target with his economic forecasting.
He's the popular Republican Congressman from Texas, who is ripping into the president and Congress for what he sees as their “goal” with round after round of stimulus: complete economic collapse.
“From their spending habits, an economic collapse seems to be the goal of Congress and this administration,” he said in his June 22, 2009, weekly address.
He added that Democrats who voted for the president’s war funding request, which gave an additional $106 billion to military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq — among other, unrelated items — were actually voting in favor of the wars, not just authorization of the president’s agenda.
He called it an affront to everyone who believed a vote for Obama was a vote for a peace candidate.
The president’s insistence on including an additional $108 billion in asset exchange with the International Monetary Fund is merely “buying global oppression,” he said.
Paul added that, “this [bill sent] $660 million to Gaza, $555 million to Israel, $310 million to Egypt, $300 million to Jordan and $420 million to Mexico; and some $889 million will be sent to the United Nations for so-called peace keeping missions.”
In other words, the latest U.S. war funding was an “International bailout,” he said.
The legislation’s provisions for the IMF included 100 billion dollars for the New Arrangements to Borrow (NAB), a credit instrument providing the multilateral institution with additional resources to deal with exceptional risks to the stability of the international monetary system.
They also include an expansion of the nation’s special drawing rights by five billion SDRs, adding roughly eight billion dollars to the IMF’s financial firepower.
The 100 billion dollars for the NAB acts as a credit line for the IMF in case member countries need emergency loans that exceed the institution’s resources. As such, the money is not considered an immediate budget expense.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) had proposed to strip out the IMF funds, but his measure was defeated in May by a vote of 64-30.
“Not only does sending money to the IMF hurt citizens here, evidence shows that it even hurts those it pretends to help,” Paul said. “Along with IMF loans come IMF required policy changes called ’structural adjustment programs,’ which amount to forced Keynesianism. This is the very fantasy-infused economic model that brought our own country to its knees.”
This audio is from Congressman Ron Paul’s weekly address, released June 22, 2009:
http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-obamas-goal-is-economic-collapse/
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We need an agency that has a group of individuals that aspire to no public office, That has the authority to investigate every member in Congress for corruption and the constitutional authority to remove them from office and turn them over to the judicial for prosecution.
I don't know how we could gather these unbiased citizens against corruption for the agency. We would need term limits for them. I do know that congress is operating with little regard to the citizens needs or desires.
We have had too many decades of self-serving lifetime careerist members of Congress (both parties, both chambers) who have been setting their own Pay, Perks, and Pensions (and Pork, Big Time), and who have legalized their own bribery as they accept arm loads of cash from armies of lobbyists, then obediently deliver their votes as purchased.
And they need to be prosecuted and their wealth returned to the treasury from which it was stolen.
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Obviously, there is a large mass of people that consider this a valid and important topic; and it's our right as American citizens that pay the taxes that keeps the debt rolling, to know the facts about UFO's and any extraterrestrials that either are present on Earth or have been present on Earth. I'm not suggesting having the utmost secret information but i think we absolutely have the right to know that they in fact exist and some basic information about them. There are many people out there that have had experiences and they deserve to be validated and not looked upon as "crazy" or "nutty" or drunk or high or what have you. There are also many other people that believe that have not seen one or had an experience with one but by using reasoning and logic have determined that more likely than not, that ET's exist and are present on teh planet and have been for a long time.
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Obamas 'change' is the new New World Order
Barrack Obama seems to be pushing forward to what he calls the New World Order, now I'm not going on about the conspiracy theory to slaughter 90% of the worlds population, no I'm talking about America in the unipolar world and the unification of the world as one!
A plan like this was put together in 1942, a post war New World Order map had been planned for after the defeat of the axis powers in World War II, (see below).
http://www.pauliddon.net/2009/04/obamas-change-is-new-new-world-order.html
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How responsible is our government when it lets soldiers go to prison for following orders? How responsible is the government when it punishes American people for committing lesser evils than the government itself is guilty of? How responsible is our government when it outlaws popular forms of adult entertainment? How responsible is our government when it would rather protect the Internet from the people, than to protect the people from the Internet? The Pentagon built the Internet with the Taxpayers money, so Why not give the people free Internet and make the government legally responsible for the pornography, viruses, spyware etc.? Why can Bush torture people but Americans can't grow their own marijuana? Why is the intelligence community allowed to know the American people's secrets, but the people can't know the intelligence communities secrets? Why does the government say that it supports the Iranian digital revolution via Twitter, when it doesn't acknowledge the American digital revolution via whitehouse.gov?
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Ensure that congress falls under the same health care reform bill that is passed for the American people. The current proposal has Congress and unions falling under their own programs.
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Many arguments about government programs, particularly national security-related programs, come down to a tradeoff between open government and (supposedly) national security concerns. I propose a "time lock" concept whereby if the government claims an issues is too sensitive to disclose for national security reasons, then the issue can be put in a figurative or literal "vault" to be released without question in a fixed number of years. So, the information would eventually see the light of day and the public would know how valid the original natinal security concerns were.
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Can we PLEASE have a simple and clear-cut payout spreadsheet that discloses how much for each sector AS WELL AS WHO was given what (amount) and when? There are way to many outlets reporting different amounts and not enough is spelled out so the average American can judge for themselves or keep track of what is given out. Please, please, please create something that is fairly easy and understandable pertaining to the payments.
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Making our government more transparent is the way to go, but it should become so during the preparation of each bill, while bills develop in congress, and again, before President Obama signs it. With the public reviewing legislative thinking online, new laws might become more of the democracy this country was built upon. President Obama had a great idea on this issue, while campaigning to become who he is. Let us not rip it apart, but instead, build upon it to create the "we the people," more inclusive. Lawmakers often put their personal growth aspirations into developing bills. Let the public uncover these events in the process of lawmaking, which could even improve the elections process. We should then let our president know when things have not materialized the way they should, in Congress, before he considers approving and signing each bill.
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You know the people here in the United States rally have no idea how the rest of the world lives, and copes with their own governments. I am a veteran of a foreign war, and have seen what those people live like. We here in the United States have no idea what they go through on a daily basis. They struggle to stay alive, they don't have rights like we do. Let them say something against the government, or it's leader, and see if you can find where they are burried, if they got burried.
Rome wasn't built in a day. Let me see anyone solve all the problems we have in the United States in as many days as some of the people on this site think they should be solved. All I hear is their right to free speech, being used. Stop talking and do something. Action will get it done.
It is obvious what government did in the past isn't working, so why not try something else. The talkers need to start doing, if they want something changed. Hot air fills a balloon, and BS smells and makes a mess. Why not clean it up and get something done.
I have a contribution, go to You Tube, Billy the Kid, White Gasoline Vapor. Now, where is your contribution?
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America is a unique country for immigrants.
There are many positive examples of realization "American Dreams", but
Many people - who became Americans by lobbying agencies - start use this beautiful country. Most of them changed names and invited people to the United States under DIFFERENT NAMES, Dates of Birth, etc. This growing "organized" network of "Americans" got access to the Finance, Credits, Education, benefits, etc. and easy manipulated American's system for more than 20 years. This statements are documented.
- Legal immigrants need joint with close family (including married children) during FIRST year to input more professional skills to economic.
- Users need pay money back with penalties. It will be useful in financial situation.
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From today’s AOL News headline: Obama has been an “imperfect” father.
http://news.aol.com/article/obamas-fathers-day-letter/534877
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As families across America celebrate Father’s Day, this year they will be honoring a right that our Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized as the “oldest of fundamental liberty interests.”
More than a freedom protected under the American Constitution, it is an inalienable right that derives from a time immemorial, a unique human relationship that has produced the very civilization we take for granted today.
Unfortunately, the proud heritage of fatherhood has undergone severe and undeserved disparagement in modern times. As our world morphs itself into an institutionalized mindest that supports a growing variety of parental substitutes, fathers are increasingly viewed as superfluous, dispensable and even antiquated.
The consequence of this is already being felt in our communities. A “Fatherless America” has been directly linked to increases in teen pregnancies, pathological behavior and a variety of social ills that have combined to reduce the productivity of this nation on a grand scale. Parents today are spending more time in domestic relations courts than they are in schools, churches and workplaces.
This can be traced to a multi-billion dollar industry that feeds upon the demise of parent-child relations. Statistically, fathers and children have been most victimized as the Census Bureau continues to report that between 80 and 90 percent of all parents paying “child support” are fathers.
In any other civil rights context, such reports would produce extreme outrage. However, in a leadership environment where one political party is able to demean the other as a group of “angry white men,” needful reform becomes remote. Fatherhood has become a suspect class of gender discrimination and the last vestige of institutionalized prejudice remaining unchecked in America today.
True reform begins not with a politically correct speech that one year ago laid the blame predominantly upon absentee fathers. Policymakers at all levels and branches of government must unravel the draconian measures undertaken to locate, stigmatize and criminalize countless mainstream fathers that have been arbitrarily removed from meaningful relationships with their children.
This silent practice comes from domestic relations policy that continues to embrace long discredited socialist philosophy. A state-created “custodial parent” is “awarded” with formula-driven welfare payments that have no child-based accountability. The payor, typically a male parent, is marginalized to “visitor” status and suppressed as a “non-custodial” creature of “law” in order to maintain a regular flow of money payments.
Such payments are necessary to support a growing bureaucracy of lawyers, forensic specialists and service providers. Title IV-D of the Social Security Act provides tremendous incentive payments for the states to increase the number and magnitude of “child support” orders mass produced in our state courts. A full range of protections under our Bill of Rights is trampled in the process. Meanwhile, the principal protectors of our Constitution in federal court remain dormant under a host of abstension, deference and state immunity doctrines.
Collectively, this has resulted in a barbaric process unknown to common law. A long-term monetary “award” is offered and potential “custody war” thrust upon all parenting cases regardless of any joint capacity to rear children in a separated environment. A custodial parent is given no incentive under this oppositional framework to involve the other parent meaningfully in his children’s lives out of fear of losing the same children to a “custody transfer.”
Above quoted phrases denote the propoganda employed to sustain this multi-billion dollar child industry. The “best interests” of our children are actually being promoted under a language scheme historically committed to prisons, funerals and lawsuits. Indeed, it influences otherwise model parents to conform to this institutional framework in a manner wholly foreign to a natural order of childrearing.
While it may take a village to strengthen our resolve as a nation, it takes a committed family unit of diverse types to properly raise our children. This requires our leadership to restore the dignity of fatherhood so that men are not fleeing those same villages.
In the words of one progressive Family Court judge, this custodial framework has “outlived its usefulness.” Debtor prisons and parent locator services will not justify the resulting oppression any more than slavery and an underground railroad did in a not-so-distant past.
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This Forum is a frustration release mechanism concocted by Team Obama to allow real Americans to vent meaninglessly at the communist acts and policies of the Obama regime and, by wasting their time so venting, get sidetracked from otherwise mounting effective opposition to everything Obama stands for.
This site is not authorized by the President of the United States, despite an official looking seal, and "National Academy of Public Administration" is simply a trade marked name along with "IdeaScale" of those who own the site and are paid by Team Obama to create this distraction that siphons off people's anger in a way that does not threaten Team Obama.
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You are really something, not only are you stupid but you are maniacal. to address one of our generals in the way you did is disgusting to say the least. You need to apologize to him. The people of California did not send you back to your senate seat to act like an elitist Jerk.
As far as your title is concerned, titles mean nothing it's what comes out of the person heart that is genuine. And lets face it your are far from being a genuine individual.
I am sick of listening to you whining like an old hag.
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If you also agree with this give a thumbs up......
I am Janet Contreras, a concerned, home-grown American citizen. I am 53, and I have been a registered Democrat all of my adult life. Before the last Presidential election, I registered Republican because I no longer feel the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. I now no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me.
There must be someone, please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me you are there and are willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please do it now.
You might ask yourselves what my views and issues are that I would feel so horribly disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me? These are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation:
* Illegal Immigration—I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop the violence and trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S. I am not a racist. This not to be confused with legal immigration.
* TARP Bill—I want it repealed and no further funding supplied to it. We told you “NO!” but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze! Repeal!
* Czars—I want the circumvention of our checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the Czars. No more Czars. Government officials answer to the process not the President. Stop trampling on our Constitution and honor it.
* Cap & Trade—the debate on global warming is NOT over, there IS more to say.
* Universal Health Care—I will not be rushed into another expensive decision. Don’t you dare pass this in the middle of the night and then go on break. Slow down!
* Growing Government Control—I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. Shrink it down. Please mind your own business; you have enough to do with your REAL obligations. Let’s start there.
* ACORN—I do not want ACORN or its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them on every real estate deal that closes. Stop all funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audit and investigation. I do not trust them with the taking of the census or with taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before the taxpayers get any further involved with them. It walks like a duck and talks like a duck—hello… stop protecting political buddies. You work for the people. Investigate.
* Redistribution of Wealth—No. If I work for it, it is mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs. That is the only redistribution of wealth I support. I never got a job from a poor person. Why do want me to hate my employers? What do your have against shareholders making a profit?
* Charitable Contributions—although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities where we know our needs best and can use local talent and resources. Butt out, please. We want to do this ourselves.
* Corporate Bail Outs—knock it off! Sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we will be better off just getting to it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful, like ripping off a band aid. We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us a chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.
* Transparency and Accountability—how about it? No really, let’s have it. Let’s say we give the “buzz” words a rest and have some straight, honest talk. Please stop trying to manipulate and appease me with cleaver wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.
* Unprecedented Quick Spending—stop it, now. Take a breath. Listen to “The People.”
Let’s just slow down and get some more input from some “non-politicians” on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed reading our bills into law.
I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant nor a violent person. I am a mother and grandmother. I am a working woman. I am busy, busy, busy and tired, tired, tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawns and wash our cars on weekends, and be responsible, contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same, all the while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.
I entrusted you with upholding our Constitution and believed in the checks and balances to keep you from getting too far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think that I find humor in hiring a speed reader to unintelligibly ramble through a bill you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not! It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face! I am not laughing—the arrogance!
Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it, but you expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children? We did not want that TARP bill. We said “NO!” We would repeal it if we could. I am not sure that we still cannot. There is such urgency and recklessness in all the recent spending. From my perspective, it seems that you have all gone insane.
I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back!
You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on you to bring our concerns to Washington.
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I am so amazed that there aren’t more outcries over the firing of Inspector General Walpin. In order to fire an Inspector General the White House needs to give a 30 day notice to congress and give a reason as to why they are firing him. Obama was part of the original bill which wrote those rules.
Here we have an Inspector General investigating a supporter of Obama for the misuse of public funds and Obama fires him immediately. The reason they gave was he was “confused, disoriented and unable to answer questions.”
What a bunch of bull. Have you listened to any of Mr. Walpins interviews? He doesn't sound "confused" to me. In fact he is a very intelligent individual.
Does anybody else see anything wrong with this?
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This would simply be a web site where each elected official's promises were stated and flagged showing whether they were kept, broken, in-process or inactive. A percentage based on kept divided by (kept + broken) would give us a fairly accurate estimate of their reliability when re-election time comes around.
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About 45 million Americans lack healthcare insurance. Or do they?
A pro-"universal healthcare" television host recently cited this widely accepted "fact." The number is bogus.
Here's the skinny.
Start with the math. We have 300 million Americans. Subtract the 45 million -- 15 percent of us -- with no health insurance. That leaves 255 million Americans, or 85 percent, with it.
And the insurance is lousy, right? Not according to a 2006 ABC News/Kaiser Family Foundation/USA Today survey. It found that 89 percent of Americans were satisfied with the quality of their own healthcare.
Nearly half of the 45 million fall in the category of my 26-year-old nephew. He smokes cigarettes, dates, eats out, goes to movies and, like all young people, lives through his cell phone. With a slight change in priorities, he could afford health insurance, the cost of which at his age and health starts at about $100 a month. Take a look at a Reason Foundation video of interviews with a bunch of non-health-insured 20-somethings.
These Gen Xers copped to dropping money on clothes, booze, nightlife, the latest tech gizmos and other things of interest to them. With a change in priorities, these young folks -- far more representative of those without insurance than the forlorn husband and wife sitting on a porch swing -- could both afford and qualify for health insurance. They simply consider it a low priority.
Millions more can access healthcare -- through SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program), Medicaid or other government programs. But for whatever reason, 11 million people simply refuse to take advantage of them.
Several million other Americans who want insurance do, indeed, go without it -- for a time. Many are, however, between jobs, and most -- at some point -- will find employment that either offers health insurance or pays enough so that they can buy it. Millions more work at companies that offer health insurance, and for a few dollars out of every paycheck, they could add family members. They choose not to.
What about criminals without insurance? More than two-million Americans -- with access to healthcare, by the way -- use jail, prison or penitentiary mailing addresses. And for every one behind bars, how many live among us who survive by theft, drug dealing, prostitution or some similar career path? Taxpayer health insurance for them, too?
So now we're down to the Americans without health insurance on a persistent, long-term basis. This is approximately 10-15 million, a big number to be sure. But does this warrant a government takeover of the entire healthcare system?
Lacking healthcare insurance is not the same as lacking healthcare. By law, most emergency rooms must provide healthcare -- to both legals and illegals. Yes, they stand in line, but no health insurance does not equal no healthcare.
Government (aka taxpayers) already pays half of our healthcare dollar, with programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP and other federal and state plans. The stated goals are accessibility and affordability. Congress passed Medicare in 1965. In the 20 years before the program's inception, the cost of a day in a hospital increased threefold. In the 20 years following Medicare, a day in a hospital increased eightfold -- substantially higher than inflation over that period. Because of cost controls on government plans, providers increased the cost on everybody else.
So here's the question.
Do we allow a complete government takeover of the section of healthcare it doesn't already run, for 10-15 million or so without health insurance on a persistent basis? Again, 255 million Americans already have it. Many millions more could get it if they wanted to. And 89 percent of Americans are satisfied with the care they now receive.
What to do? Unleash the free market. Allow greater competition among healthcare providers. Decrease costly regulations that increase the price tag. Enable consumers to purchase insurance plans across state lines. Allow non-government-licensed paraprofessionals and others -- currently prevented by law from offering any medical services -- to provide low-cost care.
What about poor care and negligence? We have laws against force and fraud, as well as a common-law duty of care. That's why God created lawyers. (Just give us "loser pays.")
What about those who cannot afford it? What about those with pre-existing illnesses whose insurance applications carriers turned down? What's wrong with charity -- people helping people? America remains the most generous nation on the face of the earth. We donate more of our time and money than countries like England, Germany, and Japan. During the Great Depression, before the New Deal, charitable giving skyrocketed. After the New Deal, charitable giving continued, but not at nearly the same rate. People expected government to address the problem, and taxpayers felt they gave at the office.
We can provide such "universal" coverage at a "low cost" -- through rationing. That means long lines, lower quality, and less innovation for services that Americans currently take for granted.
Economists call it T.A.N.S.T.A.A.F.L. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
-Larry Elder
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After the POTUS's last trip to Hawaii, the Gov of Hawaii ordered his Birth Records, sealed. Why would she do this? Is this the Transparency Obonga espouses?
The lame COLB does not disclose the attending physician, or the witness's signatures either. It's lacking every which way you look at it, unless you are a Jonestown BLIND FOLLOWER.
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Wall Street criminals exposed By Marcy Kaptur
THE LATEST REALITY GAME--WALL STREET BAILOUT -- (House of Representatives - September 22, 2008)
http://www.kaptur.house.gov/?option=com_content&task=view&id=289&Itemid=1
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Sen. Dick Durbin, on a local Chicago radio station this week, blurted out an obvious truth about Congress that, despite being blindingly obvious, is rarely spoken: "And the banks -- hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created -- are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place." The blunt acknowledgment that the same banks that caused the financial crisis "own" the U.S. Congress -- according to one of that institution's most powerful members -- demonstrates
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/30/ownership/
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I am sure Obama thought this website was a great idea to enhance his popularity. Worked just the reverse. Much like most of his other plans. Poor OBama. He has got to know that the true Americans are beginning to see him for what he really is.
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He was appointed with fanfare as the public watchdog over the government's multi-billion dollar bailout of the nation's financial system. But now Neil Barofsky is embroiled in a dispute with the Obama administration that delayed one recent inquiry and sparked questions about his ability to freely investigate.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-tc-nw-inspectors-0617-0618jun18,0,5718990.story
WHAT IS THIS ADMINISTRATION TRYING TO HIDE?
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