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Notable government reform news and research reports.
Updated on 2009-11-08
Created on 2008-12-07
Category: Government & Politics
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Lawrence Lessig: AIG: Will We Solve the Underlying Problem?
Confront our congressional candidates for either a clean money system or more special interest financing.
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Sunlight Foundation » Show Us The Data: Most Wanted Federal Documents
From the Center for Democracy and Technology and OpenTheGovernment.org
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A 'fraud' bigger than Madoff - Americas, World - The Independent
Senior US military officials are being investigated on US$150Billion in Iraqi reconstruction funds.
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Simplicity: The Next Big Thing - Rosabeth Moss Kanter - HarvardBusiness.org
Can government learn from this focus on simplicity? Perhaps bailouts and economic recovery packages can focus on what's most important..
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Government Bytes: The Official Blog of National Taxpayers Union
Assessment of Obama's influence on the dwindling stock market.
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study-cmf-20081215-communicatingcongress.pdf (application/pdf Object)
"Communicating with Congress"; in pdf format.
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TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Who's Running TARP? You Might Not Wanna Know
The government officials behind the current economic crisis stabilization efforts. Comments included.
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'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years - WSJ.com
Ayn Rand's powerful novel from the 1950's is relevant to today's economic crisis.
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John Tepper Marlin: I.O.U.S.A. - Fury at (GOP) Fiscal Fiasco
Regards movie on the national debt and rest of federal fiscal crisis.
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WP: Cost of war: Why we don't feel the financial pain - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com
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Hormats called Bush's war financing "shortsighted," not only because of the potential fiscal consequences but also because it bypassed an opportunity to engage the support of the public, which has grown increasingly skeptical of the war.
"They tried to do this on the cheap and without a candid conversation with the American people about the cost," Hormats said. "But the irony is the great wartime leaders have seen it in the opposite way," theorizing that a call to sacrifice would "tie people to the war effort."
Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Columbia University professor who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton and who was among the winners of the 2001 Nobel prize for economics, said Bush has undertaken a "deceptive policy of saying you can have both guns and butter" — a strategy similar to Johnson's in the early years of Vietnam. In December, Stiglitz co-authored a study that predicts the Iraq conflict alone will eventually cost taxpayers more than $1 trillion, counting military rebuilding and health care for wounded veterans.
"It's actually turning out to be a very expensive war," Stiglitz said. But "it has been designed to be a war the American people don't feel."
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