Congress not interested in Small Business Success

End small business welfare This article from Washington Technology is about Congress enacting legislation that punishes government departments for missing their small business contracting goals by levying a fine...

Social impact bonds

Help for "victims" Victims may claim they have been “blighted by crime and poverty.” Some victims may not have the resources to even make the claim. Someone else must do it for them. Who or what inflicts the...

FL Gov. Rick Scott Says People on Welfare Use More Drugs - VIDEO

"Appearing on CNN, Florida Governor Rick Scott claimed that “studies” have shown that people on welfare are higher users of drugs than people who are not on welfare. When pressed to prove this statement, Scott again referred to unnamed “studies,” but provided no ...

Welfare of Nations

At the highest level, governments are all about optimizing the return on national resources. What that means is providing the greatest amount of needed services to society through various economic models that are...

A story for good people

Homeless, welfare recipients, and worse If you are without compassion for people on welfare, then read no further. If you wish to better understand the issues, please continue. This example is from the UK, but the...

Judicial Corruption - Suggested Reading - Minnesota USA

This is an except from an article I wrote on Examiner.com: " These books and literature should be of interest of you, especially if you think you might ever have to appear before a judge.. In Minnesota we have...

Progressive Followers - Please help me understand

This is an except from an article I wrote on Examiner.com: "As Joan Rivers would say, "Can we talk?" Simply, I don't understand why anyone would be a willing follower of any Leader who said they were a...

Argentina: Past and Future

The last member of the brutal junta that led Argentina from 1976 to 1983 has kicked the bucket. Unwept, unhonored and unsung.No, don't tell me to speak nothing but good of the dead; they spoke nothing good of the thousands of people they murdered. And don't tell me not to...

State on perpetual welfare - West Virginia

The State of West Virginia, a spinoff from Virginia at the time of the civil war, one that aligned with the North, has been on perpetual welfare ever since. The state is the poorest in the nation and remains so...

Andre Bauer: Sorry But Honest About "Stray Animals" Remark

Andre Bauer, the Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, found himself in hot water yesterday when he compared helping poor people to feeding "stray animals" during his speech at a town hall meeting. Today, Bauer apologized for his remarks, saying his words were taken out of...

NYS Supreme Court Decision speaks loudly on 'system of justice'

Op-Ed by Rhonda J Mangus NowPublic Exclusive The least-noticed cases sometimes say the most about the institution and our system of justice. They can also say the most about the rights of a mother to the care,...

Deterioration to create change

Relativeness as to change is either Direct or Indirect however the latter usually involves going through failure firstly in order to justify change in a round-about way that negates "U" turns. What...

California to Cut CalWORKS Welfare Program comment.

CA was going broke for years in pouring out tax payers' hard earned tax dollars to the welfare collectors and now it has come to this. I know for a fact it may hurt some who are in need for welfare system to help them but there so many countless welfare cheaters does...

Top judge faces sack for speaking out about immigrants.

Immigrants abusing benefits system " A senior judge faces the sack after saying that 'hundreds of thousands of immigrants' come to Britain to receive generous welfare payments. Judge Ian Trigger was told...

Crackdown on 80,000 immigrant wives with free pass to Britain

" A highly controversial crackdown on immigrants accused of abusing welfare handouts is to be unveiled by Home Secretary Alan Johnson this week. He plans to ban wives brought here, mainly from India and...

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