Saturday, 18 May 2013


Second IRS official resigns after scandal: The appointment of Werfel comes as a second top IRS official announced Thursday that he is stepping down in the aftermath of revelations that the agency targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny.
This Is No Ordinary Scandal: Political abuse of the IRS threatens the basic integrity of our government.
Lawsuit Says IRS Illegally Seized 60 Million Health Records: The “medical records contained intimate and private information of more than 10,000,000 Americans, information that by its nature includes information about psychological counseling, gynecological counseling, sexual or drug treatment, and a wide range of medical matters covering the most intimate and private of concerns.”
Global Government Debt Is Already 80% Of Global GDP: The truth is an economy that is soaked in debt just doesn’t grow because it is always marked by at least one, if not all three, of the following growth-killing conditions; high interest rates, rampant inflation and onerous tax rates.”
US Home Foreclosure Rates are Comparable to the Great Depression: Given that there are currently around 316 million Americans – more than twice the number during the Great Depression – such high foreclosure rates mean that there may well be as many people suffering foreclosure than during the Great Depression … or more
Gen X on track to be worse off than Boomers in retirement, study finds: If they don't start paying off debt and saving more, Gen Xers (those between the ages of 38 and 47) and younger Boomers (those in their late 40s to mid-50s) are on track to retire financially worse off than the generations before them, according to analysis from the Pew Charitable Trusts, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit
The Empire’s Next Effort to Extract Your Wealth: Since before the tech bust, we’ve been suggesting that while Americans “think” they’re getting richer… they’re actually heading in the other direction. They’re getting poorer.
10 Amazing Charts That Demonstrate The Slow, Agonizing Death Of The American Worker: The middle class American worker is in danger of becoming an endangered species. The politicians are not telling you the truth, and the mainstream media is certainly not telling you the truth, but the reality is that there is nothing but bad news on the horizon for workers in the United States.