Tag: government waste
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Non-Profit Seeks Public Opinion on Government Waste
by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 15, 2025) — Non-profit OpentheBooks.com has launched a poll asking readers to vote for the most egregious government waste of taxpayer money. For more than 15 years, the organization has delved into government spending at the local, state and federal levels through FOIA requests, making public the results of its findings.…
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P&E Article Featured in Newsletter
by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 6, 2023) — An article we published a week ago about animal experiments conducted by the U.S. government both domestically and overseas is reposted in full in an August 5 newsletter issued by the White Coat Waste Project (WCWP), a 501(c)3 organization founded several years ago. WCWP focuses on reining in…
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Don’t Blame Bernie. Blame The Stupid, Naïve Bernie Voters
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2020 (Mar. 8, 2020) — “The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of…
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OK, So Trump Was Elected. Don’t Be Expecting Miracles.
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2016 (Nov. 13, 2016) — Yes, Donald Trump has been elected President, but the situation America faces is just as dire as it was before November 8th, 2016. The accumulated difficulties that have piled up over the last 100 years are not going to…
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What Was That 4th of July Freedom Again?
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Jul. 2, 2016) — As Patrick Henry’s cry of freedom, “Give Me Liberty, Or Give Me Death” echoes across the passages of time, has it not become meaningless in the 241 years since it was uttered at the Virginia Convention on March 23,…
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Obama’s Proposed Legislation With HR 569 and the Omnibus Spending Bill Violate the US Constitution
“CONDEMNING VIOLENCE, BIGOTRY, AND HATEFUL RHETORIC TOWARDS MUSLIMS IN THE UNITED STATES” by Capt Joseph R. John (Ret), Chairman, CombatVeteransForCongress (Jan. 6, 2016) — While family-oriented American citizens were enjoying the Christmas holidays with their loved ones, Valerie Jarrett and the occupant of the Oval Office had Obama’s Attorney General promote HR 569, which violates…
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Is It Too Harsh To Force Illegal Aliens to Self-Deport?
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2015 (May 24, 2015) — “The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of ‘anchor babies’ must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country…
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The Embedded and Institutionalized Corruption at the IRS
FROM ” IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2015, President, NARLO (Feb. 1, 2015) — “Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there…
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The IRS Came, They Saw and They Conquered
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2014 (May 11, 2014) — “We’ll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.” Dave Berry, humor columnist and author – – – – – – – – – – –…
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Convoluted Logic
MONEY WELLS-SPENT OR THROWN AWAY? by OPOVV, ©2013 (Aug. 6, 2013) — In the movie “Follow that Dream,” Elvis’s father explained that it was his patriotic duty to collect as much as he could for as many reasons from the government because, by doing so, he was creating jobs for the people whose job it was…
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A Strong Warning to the Government
FROM AN OUTRAGED PATRIOT by Ron Ewart, ©2012 (Oct. 21, 2012) — “Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense — the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind…
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A Fish Rots from the Head
“TRICKLE-DOWN SLEAZE” by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2012 (Apr. 27, 2012) — Sir James Porter’s Observations on the religion, law, government, and manners of the Turks, published in 1768, tells us, “The Turks have a homely proverb… they say ‘the fish stinks first at the head,’ meaning that, if the servant is disorderly, it is because the…
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How Much Money Has the Obama Regime Wasted?
TRIPS, CONFERENCES, CLOWNS…AND WHAT ELSE? by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 12, 2012) — The head of the General Services Administration submitted a resignation letter on April 9, 2012, following news that her agency had spent close to $1,000,000 in taxpayer dollars on a conference in Las Vegas in October 2010 after Obama himself had recommended that…