Archive for 'Government'
Should The Government Spend More Of The Tax Money They Recieve From Cigarettes To Help Smokers Quit
April 7th, 2009. Published under Government. No Comments.
There is absolutely a staggering amount of money in cigarette taxes that the government collects each year. If our government is making billions and not millions in tax revenue, then where are the programs to help people who are dying from smoking each day? It seems as if no one, including our government, is […]
Bernanke and Obama Foresee a Brighter Future
April 7th, 2009. Published under Government. No Comments.
Apparently the words of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke carry a little more weight with Wall Street these days than those of the Commander in Chief. Bernanke gave his reassuring prognosis to Congress last month that the recession could end before the close of 2009, and Wall Street reacted with a steadier day. But […]
Cigar Smokers Give Obama Unsolicited Cuba Advice
March 27th, 2009. Published under Government. No Comments.
With a popular new President, a clear shift in the US’s political direction, and a public mood that’s open to new ideas, many cigar aficionados are wondering whether the general atmosphere of change will extend to U.S.-Cuba relations.
One group of cigar aficionados–the group that publishes Cigar Aficionado (CA) magazine, which first appeared in 1992 […]
Does The Government Really Give Out Money To People
March 21st, 2009. Published under Government. No Comments.
The subject that will be discussed in this article is government grants, who gets what and why. This is a very complex subject, like everything our government does, because all the grants and benefits our authorities manage they have to think about everybody for the greater good.
The majority of the funds assigned by the […]
How do Government Grants Work?
March 18th, 2009. Published under Government. No Comments.
The Federal Government of the United States manages billions of dollars in what is called grants. After reading about what are those government grants everyone keeps talking about, we are going into some specifics on how they work, and how some families benefit from checks sent to them from the bureaucrats.
These grants, or blocks […]
Obama Creates a New Housing Rescue Plan
March 18th, 2009. Published under Government. No Comments.
The new talk in the blogosphere is the new housing rescue plan the administration of president Obama is proposing. Everybody knows by know that the main cause for this recession was the bubble that the housing market created. What happen was that a lot of banks lent money to people who where betting […]
Getting an Earful about Earmarks
March 18th, 2009. Published under Government. No Comments.
President Obama signed the $410 billion federal budget this week, calling the bill “imperfect” for the billions in earmarks it included. Earmarks, those expensive pet-projects of lawmakers that get tucked into big bills, are something Obama promised to do away with during his campaign for the presidency.
“I am signing an imperfect omnibus […]