United States President Barack Obama was officially sworn into office for his second term this week. With no reelection battle expected in four years, the president can enact many policies, whether they’re popular or unpopular with Congress or his constituents – he even told former Russian President Dimitri Medvedev he will be freer to do […]
Archives for January 2013
Thousands of illegal aliens received $91 million in Medicare payments over three years
A new report released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General on Wednesday found that Medicare payments to health care providers for services delivered to 2,575 illegal immigrants totaled more than $91.6 million from the period of 2009 to 2011. Federal law dictates that Medicare does not give payments for either […]
Timothy Geithner: ‘I’ve never had a real job’
Exiting United States Treasury Timothy Geithner spoke with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria a couple of years ago. He admitted that he has never had a real job. Since he is leaving office shortly, it is an interesting clip that should be revived and passed around. Nevertheless, since he has never had a real job in the […]
Union membership in U.S. on the decline
According to an annual report from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), union membership in 2012 declined to 11.3 percent of wage and salary workers. This figure is down from 11.8 percent in 2011. The total number of unionized wage and salary workers stood at 14.4 million – half in the public sector […]
U.S. Postal Service losing federal government contracts to FedEx, UPS
It seems even the United States federal government thinks private sector shippers are more efficient than its own Postal Service, at least according to a Jan. 18 report by a post office official. The U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general published a report that concluded it is losing regular business from the federal government to private-sector […]