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Since just 2002, the U.S. government has added 2.5 million new contractors to the national payroll   A new study by researcher Paul C. Light at N.Y.U. takes a look at the sweeping size and composition of the federal government’s workforce.  Christopher Lee of the Washington Post writes:

The federal government keeps getting bigger.
The Republican Party’s oft-stated [...]

Oklahoma FreedomWorks will begin holding monthly meetings in October; the meetings will be held on the third Thursday of each month. Our first meeting is to be held on Thursday, October 19th at Johnnie’s Charcoal Broiler at 5001 S Harvard Ave in Tulsa. (If traveling westbound on I-44, you can enter Johnnie’s from the I-44 [...]

From today’s Washington Times editorial page: 
In 1779, Thomas Jefferson famously wrote: “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Jefferson’s dictum, of course, never deterred Big Labor from using dues and collective-bargaining payments from members and nonmembers to finance a liberal [...]

The less the 109th Congress meddles with spending bills, the better. Less Congressional involvement means fewer corrupt earmarks and less overall growth in spending. That’s why many conservatives are supporting what’s known as a “continuing resolution” to fund the areas where 2007 appropriations bills haven’t been passed yet, which is basically every government [...]

Our friends over at the Maine Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights campaign are working hard to get the ballot measure passed on Nov. 7th.
To sign up to help them out, visit this website.

This week in California, FreedomWorks was the only voice promoting the free market regarding issues of media ownership rules. Click here to listen to the audio (mp3 file)
The crowd at the FCC hearing at USC was overwhelmingly Leftist, and echoed the arguments of the bad guys in the novel Atlas Shrugged. They never even questioned [...]

File this in the “Titanic Sinks Less Quickly” category. The Wall Journal Journal editorialized yesterday on the fact that there are more choices and lower costs as a result of some of the competitive mechanisms passed in the 2003 prescription drug benefit.

If you’re looking for some good news from Washington, consider this [...]

In a speech today before the Washington Economic Club, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke warned the nation about its perilous fiscal situation. As the baby boom generation retires, entitlement spending will place a crushing tax burden on the remaining American workers. Bernanke described this harrowing future:
The fiscal consequences of these [...]

Federal Times covered a conference held by the Senior Executives Association to discuss America’s looming fiscal crisis and its coming impact on discretionary government programs. Shockingly, the SEA’s Andy Uscher suggested a number of tactics to government program managers that seem unethical at best and possibly illegal depending on implementation:
Managers should consider declaring a [...]

An article in the Flint Journal describes the impact of the state’s new minimum wage hike: fewer jobs. Specifically, the Salvation Army will be hiring fewer bell ringers this holiday season:
A $1.80 an hour increase in Michigan’s minimum wage going into effect Sunday will fatten the paychecks of most local Salvation Army bell ringers [...]