For some still unknown reason, Goldman Sachs, the bank that single-handedly accounts for the bulk of Trump's closest economic and financial advisors, and whose former COO has been reportedly tasked with hatching Trump's "phenomenal" tax plan, has been on a tear in the past month to discredit his proposed political agenda.
Submitted by Christopher Preble and William Hartung via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
Members of Congress have a hard time agreeing on virtually anything, and they’re already butting heads with the new president. But one issue should unite them: a new initiative to shrink the Pentagon’s massive overhead.
Congress have threatened to defund National Public Radio (NPR) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) due to their wasteful spending of public money. Representative Doug Lamborn has introduced two bills that will permanently eliminate federal tax dollars from the two organizations. Breitbart.com reports: “American taxpayers do not want their hard-earned dollars funding superfluous government programs just because that is the way things have always been done,” Lamborn wrote on his congressional webpage.
Authored by Caroline Baum, originally posted at MarketWatch.com,
To clean up Washington, send the swamp creatures packing
When they run for re-election, more than 90% of House members win.
When we said that an authority conferred by the free suffrages of the people never harmed a republic, we presupposed that the people, in giving that power, would limit, as well the time during which it was to be exercised. – Niccoló Machiavelli, “The Discourses,”. 1517.
The Trump Administration is preparing an executive order that would direct the Pentagon to bring future Islamic State detainees to Guantánamo Bay prison, despite warnings from national security officials and legal scholars that doing so risks undermining what increasinly appears as an "illegal" war launched by Obama to combat the terrorist organization (which many have accused of being directly and indirectly created by Saudi Arabia and the US itself).