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Fiscal Commission Recommendations: VA Co-Pays, Top Tax Rate 23%
OK, here’s the draft document for the cat food commission co-chair’s mark. In addition, there’s a page with specific “illustrative cuts”, $100 billion in domestic spending and $100 billion in military...
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The Bowles-Simpson Outline to Cut Pay and Raise Health Care Costs for Soldiers
This post has been published at 11:00 on the 11th day on the 11th month. Happy Armistice Day. And so to tie it in with the theme, let’s look at one part of the deficit commission co-chair’s mark, their...
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Where the Proposed Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Falls Short
You may know by now that American Banker has uncovered the 27-page term sheet that could form part of a global settlement between state and federal regulators and mortgage servicers. The term sheet...
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Waxman: Administration Endorsed Selling VA Property in West LA
During the Super Committee negotiations last year, Republicans proposed, and the White House endorsed, the sale of a sprawling Veterans Administration campus in West Los Angeles that Democrats have...
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Number of Homeless Iraq, Afghan Veterans Doubles
Do we take care of our own? One of the Vietnam War’s legacies was a generation of homeless veterans – traumatized by war and uncared for by the system that happily used them for its own ends before...
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Obama Furiously Orders Another Study Of Veterans Administration
President Barack Obama is apparently very “angry” about the scandal surrounding the Veterans Administration he has presided over for five years. The VA has often been in the spotlight for dysfunction...
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