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• Bush Rules Out Subprime Mortgage Bailout

  Published: August 9, 2007, 12:34 pm

  Tags: Subprime Mortgage, Subprime Bailout, Subprime Implosion, Subprime Mortgage Industry, Subprime Bailout, Bush, Bailout, Rightfully, Paribas, Taxpayer, Dismissed, Threatened, Leeway

  ruled out any type of taxpayer bailout for lenders threatened by the subprime mortgage crisis. According to news reports on the president’s remarks, he also dismissed proposals to grant Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac greater leeway in increasing their balance sheets. Fannie has asked its regulator for permission to increase the cap on

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• Taxpayer Advocacy Panel annual report

  Published: August 18, 2007, 5:07 pm

  Tags: Irs, Taxpayer Advocacy

  colleagues on the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel have released our 2006 annual report. We got it out a bit later than we wanted, but if you thumb through it, you'll see why. As required by the federal law that created TAP, each year we provide a written report describing the Panel's objectives and a self-assessment of our previous report goals.

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• Liberals Read While Conservatives Work to Support Them

  Published: August 21, 2007, 7:13 pm

  Tags: Featured, Political Commentary, Satire, Schroeder, Books, Slogans, Perjure, Thriller, Conservatives, Taxpayer, Opposite

  Extreme liberal and former member of Congress Pat Schroeder responded to a poll that indicated those who consider themselves liberal read more books than those who consider themselves conservative. I can not comment on that poll because I do not know anything about the methodology or how... Visit Big Dog's Weblog for the rest of the story...

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• RENEWABLES: The ethanol dreams of George W. Bush, make corn a hot commodity

  Published: September 3, 2007, 9:01 pm

  Tags: George W Bush, Renewable Energy, Imf, Mexico, The White House, Tortilla, Brasil, Ethanol, Kellogg, Us Taxpayer, Sustainable Development, Food Marketing Policy Centre, Soybean Oil, Maiz, Corn

  would be greener and the US taxpayer would be richer,' the magazine recommended. Via: Monster & Critics NewsBush US taxpayer,George W. Bush,The White House,Food Marketing Policy Centre,Ronald Cotterill,Kellogg,soybean oil,renewable energy,IMF,brasil,tortilla,maiz,mexico,Sustainable Development,ethanol,USA,corn,energyblogFound this post useful?

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• Auditor General's Hefty Expenses Bill

  Published: October 11, 2007, 5:09 am

  Tags: Audit, Auditor, Business, Contracts, Criticism, England, Entertaining, Expenditure, Extravagance, Government, Grand Prix, Investigator, London, Meals, Money Amp Amp Stuff, Opera, Paid, Polo, Pounds, Purse, Scrutiny, Services, Sir John Bourn, Taxpayer, Westminster, Whitehall

  "Sir John Bourn, guardian of the public purse. read more

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• Oklahoma 3 Indicted for Soliciting Our Government

  Published: October 20, 2007, 6:00 am

  Tags: Exclusive, Middle, Us News, Taxes, First Amendment, Taxpayer Bill Of Rights

  Paul Jacob and two others were indicted this month on felony charges in Oklahoma and could serve more than ten years in prison. Their crime? Simply exercising their First Amendment right to petition the government, contends the Sam Adams Alliance.

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• Did John Edwards Cause this?

  Published: October 29, 2007, 8:19 am

  Tags: General, Bad Decisions, Financial Problem, Foreclosing, Foreclosure, Loan Company, Molotov Cocktails, Taxpayer Money

  A Houston man killed himself rather than be evicted from his home after the loan company foreclosed on him. James Hahn threw Molotov cocktails at police and survived tear gas attacks and only took his life when police were moving in on him. Hahn stated he would never be taken from his home [...] Visit Big Dog's Weblog for the rest of the

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• So Much for Democratic Fiscal Responsibility

  Published: November 15, 2007, 5:43 pm

  Tags: Political, Congress, Democrats, Government Waste, Line Item Veto, Mandate, Pork Report, President, Tax And Spend, Taxpayer Money, Universal Health Care, War

  is 20 billion dollars in taxpayer money that was flushed down the drain by the Democratic... Visit Big Dog's Weblog for the rest of the story...

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• Subprime Mortgage Implosion In the Schoolhouse

  Published: November 16, 2007, 1:20 pm

  Tags: Mortgage Backed Securities, Structured Investment Pool Siv, Subprime Implosion, Subprime Mortgage Industry, Schoolhouse, Wilson, Pools, Taxpayer, Taxpayers, Contagion, Jefferson, Hits

  Subprime in the Schoolhouse. Interview with Hal Wilson, CFO of Jefferson County School Board; Mortgage Contagion Hits State Run Investment Pools, Nobody Has Told Taxpayers; Wilson Placed $2.7 Million Taxpayer Funds in Florida Local Government Investment Pools. No Tags

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• President Bush's Mugshot in NYC Library

  Published: November 30, 2007, 10:54 am

  Tags: Political, Art Exhibits, Bill And Hillary, Doctored Photos, Hillary Clinton, Jesus In A Manger, Mugshots, Nyc Public Library, Phony, Political Leaders, Taxpayer Money, Ten Commandments

  A NYC Public Library has mugshots on display as part of its «art» exhibits. These mugshots are phony pictures of President Bush and members (past and present) of his administration. The doctored photos are the work of two «artists» who obviously have a political axe to grind. ... Visit Big Dog's Weblog for the rest of

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• Cheaper to send jailed foreigners on a world cruise - than UK prison at 43,000 a year

  Published: December 5, 2007, 9:51 am

  Tags: Croydon, London, United Kingdom, Centres, Cheaper, Crime, Cruise, Damian, Detainee, Emerged, Holding, Jailed, Liner, Oriana, Prison, Removal, Taxpayer, Tory

  The cost of locking up foreign criminals and failed asylum seekers would be greatly reduced if the Government paid for their airfare back to their home country. This latest story shows a good example of how to waste millions of pounds without getting any results."Locking up...read more

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• TAP dancing to D.C.

  Published: December 10, 2007, 3:41 am

  Tags: Taxes, Taxpayer Advocacy

  the annual meeting of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel. This is my second such get-together, and as a veteran, I'm more involved in the program. In fact, I have two presentations -- brief ones, thank goodness! -- to give. I'm more jazzed, though, about meeting the new members. Area 5, the region that includes Texas, has six new

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• Most serious problems facing taxpayers

  Published: January 9, 2008, 4:55 pm

  Tags: Irs, Taxes, Taxpayer Advocacy

  noted, more than a million taxpayers may not have claimed tax deductions to which they were entitled simply because they did not know about them because of the late law changes. "When taxpayers do not claim tax benefits because they do not know about them," Olson said, "Congress's intent in providing the tax benefits is

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• About that nuclear waste thats over 20 years old..

  Published: February 18, 2008, 3:45 am

  Tags: Dustys Posts, Energy, Environment, Federal Fuckwits At The Helm, Politics, Hanford, Nuclear Waste, Tax Dollars, Yucca Mt, Time, Bless, The, Taxpayer Hanford, Nuclear, Reservation, Reactor, Waste, Sitting, Storing, Temporary, Generates, Roughly, Tons, Toxic, Commercial, And, Def

  If you were expecting the Federal Government to actually do something with the waste from nuclear reactors, well, your sorely mistaken my dear reader.Because the truth of the matter is that the “waste from more than 100 nuclear reactors that the federal government was supposed to start accepting for burial 10 years ago is still [...]

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• sounds like a fraternity to me

  Published: June 22, 2008, 4:50 am

  Tags: Iraq War, Politics, Corruption, Federal Contractors, Money For Nothing, Pentagon, Taxpayer S Money

  "The mysterious payments, whose amounts had not been publicly disclosed, included $68.2 million to the United Kingdom, $45.3 million to Poland and $21.3 million to South Korea.

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