May 10th, 2013 |
By John
The so-called fiscal crisis in Washington is nothing but politics. Even though Congress and President Obama claim that the country is out of money, politicians on both sides of the aisle seem to be able to come up with money for pet projects. An investigation by Senate Republicans found that the Labor Department had enough funds to spare to promote unions and collective bargaining overseas. Republicans learned that the Department had given $2.2 million to the Solidarity Center (an AFL-CIO organization set up during the Cold War to help workers in Communist countries) to promote
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Posted in Economics, Financial, Top Headline |
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Tags: AFL-CIO, army, congress, economy, finances, government
Sep 4th, 2012 |
By Tim George
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A recently published survey that was conducted internally in the Army in 2011 shows that only 26 percent of active-duty Army officers believe the Army is headed in the right direction. Many of those surveyed identified “political correctness” imposed by both outside policymakers and senior Army leaders as the driving factor in what they perceived as a decline in their branch of the U.S. military. The 26 percent that said the Army is headed in the right direction reflects a significant drop from the 33 percent that thought the Army was heading
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Tags: army, national security, The Annual Survey of Army Leadership
Apr 16th, 2012 |
By NathanF
China’s government has announced that it will increase its defense spending by 11.2 percent in 2012. This is actually slightly less than last year’s increase, which was above 12 percent, but it is the eighteenth time over the past two decades that China’s defense budget has been expanded by 10 percent or more. And this
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Posted in Current Events, Politics |
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Tags: army, China, defense spending, increase
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