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**Written by Doug Powers “You guys know that when the president gave me the responsibility of dealing with and implementing this recovery act, he called me Sheriff Joe. Well, I’ve still got my badge on.” – Joe Biden, April 6, 2010 ***** Really, Joe? Part of an $11 million grant intended to provide business attire […]

The ‘Taxpayer Subsidized Clean Energy Company Losing Money and Laying Off Workers While Execs Get Raises’ Story of the Day

By Doug Powers • February 25, 2012 05:50 PM

That was then, this is now

It Wouldn’t Be Saturday Morning Without Another Friday Night Solyndra Document Dump to Sift Through

By Doug Powers • February 18, 2012 09:52 AM

Selective transparency under cover of weekend, part VI

Genesis: Latest Taxpayer-Backed Solar Project Stalls

By Doug Powers • February 14, 2012 04:51 PM

The next “next Solyndra”?

Greece Erupts After Vote for Austerity Measures to Secure Another Bailout

By Doug Powers • February 12, 2012 10:19 PM

Preview of coming attractions?

‘Your Tax Dollars at Work’ Update: Shrimp on a Treadmill

By Doug Powers • December 28, 2011 02:08 PM

Let’s Move

White House: What Does $40 Mean to You?

By Doug Powers • December 22, 2011 12:42 PM

The real question is what does it mean to them?

Obama Supporter’s Company Wins $433 Million No-Bid Contract for Experimental Smallpox Drug

By Doug Powers • November 12, 2011 01:31 PM

Other old friends also re-appear

Taxpayers Were Almost on the Hook for an Additional $469 Million When Solyndra Went Under

By Doug Powers • October 6, 2011 09:06 AM

**Written by Doug Powers The Obama administration was preparing to toss another very expensive life preserver, but Solyndra had already forever slipped beneath the rolling, green waves. From the Washington Post: The Obama administration’s Department of Energy was poised last summer to give Solyndra a second major taxpayer loan of $469 million, even as the […]

Charles Rangel on Debt Ceiling Debate: What Would Jesus Do?

By Doug Powers • July 9, 2011 02:43 PM

Selective non-secularism

Obama’s Economists: Each Job ‘Saved or Created’ by the Stimulus Cost $278,000 (So Far)

By Doug Powers • July 3, 2011 02:02 PM

**Written by Doug Powers As Jeffrey Anderson at the Weekly Standard pointed out, the White House releasing a fiscal report on the Friday before a long holiday weekend can only mean one thing: There’s not much good news in it for the White House, and, ergo, taxpayers. Such is the case with the White House […]

Who’s Up For Another Fannie Mae Bailout?

By Doug Powers • May 9, 2011 11:20 AM

**Written by Doug Powers Thank goodness the Dodd-Frank bill took care of the problems, eh? From Reuters: Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae (FNMA.OB) on Friday said it would ask for an additional $8.5 billion from taxpayers as it continues to suffer losses on loans made prior to 2009. The largest U.S. residential mortgage funds provider […]

Because No Job is the Greenest Job of All

By Doug Powers • May 5, 2011 01:20 PM

**Written by Doug Powers Stimulus Update Five hundred million dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (better known to Michelle’s readers as “Porkulus”) went to the US Department of Labor earmarked for “green jobs training programs,” and $490 million of that has already been awarded. How’s that working out? According to the most recent […]