Category: Budget

Obamacare Will Cost Young People Thousands More Per Year

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If you are under 30, if you are not very wealthy, and even if you are healthy your healthcare insurance costs will soar thanks to Obamacare. And you won’t have any choice in the matter, either, or you will be labeled a criminal under the law. Robert Graboyes has some of the facts at the […]

 

Obama Shuts Down House Boat Docks, Throws People Out of Their Homes

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama is attempting to make this partial shut down as painful for the American people as he possibly can by shutting down sites that he either doesn’t need to shut down, or shouldn’t be shutting down. In this case he is shutting down the docks on Lake Mead, Nevada, throwing many people–some of whom […]

 

Dem. Leader Sen. Harry Reid Says ‘No’ To Funding Kids’ Cancer Treatments

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Democrat leader Senator Harry Reid said that he has no interest in funding cancer treatments for kids today in a press conference about the ongoing government shut down fight. Instead of treating kids with cancer, Reid prefers to have a political tool to use against Republicans. In the presser CNN’s Dana Bash asked a very […]

 

Shut. It. Down.

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton NoisyRoom.net Here it comes… the next move in the DC two step: House Republicans will vote to pass a one-year delay of Obamacare in exchange for funding the government, a plan that drastically increases the chances of a government shutdown this Tuesday. The decision was announced by the GOP leadership in a […]

 

The Never Ending Fiscal Lie

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

NoisyRoom.net By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton The audacity of deception. If Obama’s lips are moving, you know he is lying. This morning’s was a whopper. From CNS News: In a speech at the Business Roundtable headquarters in Washington, D.C., Obama dismissed concerns about raising the debt ceiling by noting that it’d been done so many times in […]

 

Obama Missing Half of Obamacare’s Legal Implementation Deadlines

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If Obamacare is such a great and important law, why is Obama missing up to half of the legally imposed deadlines for its various parts by waiving or just ignoring them? That is the news this month as Obamacare seems to be proving the “train wreck” that it is. Many of the features (or do […]

 

Your Taxes Going to Pay for Hotel Rooms for Illegal Aliens

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Fox News just found out that the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is spending thousands of your tax dollars a day on hotel rooms for illegal aliens. One official said this “shouldn’t be happening,” but it is. Fox found that millions of illegals a year are given temporary status for asylum in the […]

 

Chicago Public School Teacher Attacks Capitalism, Says Violent Revolution Coming

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The policy group called ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council) had its 40th anniversary meeting in Chicago on August 7, 8, and 9, but not everyone was celebrating. In front of the hotel at which the event was held, the unions gathered to attack and one Chicago school teacher took the occasion not only to […]

 

Hawaii Lawmakers Want to Buy One-Way Tickets Off the Island for Homeless

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

“Dear homeless, you have been voted off the island.” That is what some Hawaii lawmakers are saying with a plan to allocate state funds to buy one-way tickets off the Island for the state’s homeless population. It is two Democrats sponsoring the program, too. Now, wait… two Democrats are sponsoring legislation to ship the homeless […]

 

Obama: Country Would Be ‘Better Off’ If More Worked for Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama loves him some big government policies, we all know, but now he’s saying that just about everyone should work for the government and if they did the economy would be “better off.” So, who would pay all the taxes if everyone made a living FROM those taxes? He doesn’t seem to have an […]

 

Texas Planned Parenthood Abortion Mill Defrauded Medicaid to Tune of $1.4 Million

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In Texas, abortion mill operators Planned Parenthood has been found to have defrauded Medicaid to the tune of $1.4 million and is being ordered to repay the stolen money. In 2012, a former employee of Planned Parenthood’s Gulf Coast offices filed a whistleblower’s complaint with the Attorney General of Texas and the U.S. Department of […]

 

Green Fail: New York Metra Gives Up on Hybrid Busses

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a reversal of greenism, Michael Bloomberg’s New York Metropolitan Transit Agency is giving up on hybrid transportation. The city with the mayor nicknamed “Nanny Bloomberg” may be stumping for all sorts of chic, activist causes, from the campaign to rid us of our Second Amendment rights, to the elimination of trans fats in our […]

 

DOJ Defunds Youth Programs that Reference God

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama’s Department of Justice has summarily removed federal funding from two Louisiana youth programs, one a Young Marines program, because a local official refused to sign a pledge stating he would require the programs to ban mentions of God. Julian Whittington, the sheriff of Bossier Parish, La., told Fox News that Obama’s Justice Office of […]

 

Poll: Words Like ‘Incompetent’ and ‘Liar’ Most Used to Describe Obama

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Pew Polling firm has found an interesting change in the way President Obama is being described with the use of words like “incompetent” and “liar” on the rise. The latest Pew poll finds that one-word impressions of Obama are turning negative more often than they have in the past. Until now, Pew says, these wholly […]

 

IRS To Hire ‘Diversity and Inclusion Specialist’ At $123,758 Salary

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

After repeated scandals, the IRS is looking to hire a new “Diversity and Inclusion Specialist” and is offering a generous $123,758 annual salary plus benefits. The opening was announced on June 11 and will be advertised until June 24. According to the description this “diversity” officer will “serve as a change agent to provide strategies, […]

 

Obama Claims He Doesn’t Want to ‘Tax All Businesses Out of Business’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

During a recent fundraiser, President Obama told an audience that he and the Democrats don’t want to tax all business out of business. He also said he doesn’t believe in “top down” government. The President made these comments at a private residence in Palo Alto, California during a Democratic Senatorial campaign fundraiser in the first […]

 

Criminal Unions: The Perfect ‘Government Union Fat Cat’ Story

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Today’s example of why government unions should be outlawed is a union chief who ostensibly “works” for the people of New York. He has a grueling two-hour-a-day “work” schedule and spends that time eating lunch, then sleeping. He’s a real life union fat cat, a perfect example of why government unions should be illegal, and […]

 

WaPo/ABC Poll: Obama Lying About Benghazi, IRS Targeting ‘Inappropriate,’ Media Still Distrusted

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new poll conducted jointly by The Washington Post and ABC News revealed some interesting trends. Among other findings, more Americans feel that Obama and his administration are lying about Benghazi, a majority feel that the IRS acted inappropriately by targeting conservative groups, and the media is still distrusted with a majority feeling that the […]

 

Store Owner Installs $350K of Surveillance to Stop Frivolous Lawsuits

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Supermarket owner Rafael Cuellar from Passaic, NJ, reports that he had to spend $350,000 to install 69 surveillance cameras, recording devices, and video storage banks in order to stop fake “slip and fall” insurance claims against his store. It’s a cost that just adds to the cost of living for everyone and is a perfect […]

 

Traitors: American Journalists Attack Koch Brothers, Support Al Jazeera

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There is a confluence of events over the last few weeks that perfectly proves the essential anti-Americanism of the Old Media establishment in this country today. It is evinced in two separate stories, one wheret the left is excoriating the Koch brothers for wanting to buy the L.A. Times and a contrasting story where journalists […]

 

The Corruption of Big Spending Democrats

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Buried in a recent Politico story is a line that reveals the utter corruption of “money in politics.” But not that of money spent electioneering, but that spent by government from the assumed bottomless pockets of the American taxpayer. It is a corruption that has destroyed the Constitution, laid waste the rule of law, perverted […]

 

Obama’s Budget Would Use Tax $$ to Fund Lobbyists Pushing Tax Hikes

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember when Obama took office and one of his biggest promises was that lobbyists would never gain a foothold in his Administration? Well, now that he doesn’t have to stand for election again he’s doing his level best to give lobbyists one of their biggest perks yet. He’s trying to make it legal to give […]

 

California Cannot Afford to House Prisoners, Yet Continues to Spend Wastefully

Posted on by Dave Blount

Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown is in hot water because California does not have the money to house all the criminals that liberal policies have drawn to the erstwhile golden state: Escalating a dispute with the courts over California’s troubled prison system, Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday fired back at federal judges who threatened to hold […]

 

The CA Bill That Would Shut Down Every Small Restaurant

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The State of California has one of the worst proposals of any legislature in the country this year with a new bill that would force every restaurant and food service business in the state to commission an expensive “risk assessment” test for every menu item, a test that could cost thousands of dollars for every […]

 

Supernanny Cass Sunstein’s ‘Friendly Paternalism’: It’s For Your Own Good, America

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Cass Sunsetein, one of President Obama’s leading left-wing, university eggheads, has penned an interesting piece in New Republic explaining how the nanny state is really a very important and useful aspect of today’s modern Democrat scheme. It’s for your own good, don’t you know? Launching his April 8 piece, “Why Paternalism Is Your Friend,” Sunstein […]

 

Roll Call: Obama Has ‘Given Up’ On Those Darn Republicans

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In an interesting break from reality, Roll Call posits that Obama has now “given up” on Republicans as partners for helping him get some “governing done” in Washington DC. Of course, the Capitol Hill newspaper fails to show when it was that Obama ever consider the GOP to be his governing partner in the first […]

 

Eagle-Killing, Investment-Wasting ‘Renewable’ Energy

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The “Green Energy” sector has been hit with a series of setbacks over the last few years. From a wind farm being cited for killing an endangered eagle, to solar energy’s tumble from investor favor over dismal performance, to a growing list of companies gone bankrupt even after President Obama pumped millions of our tax […]