White House wants to kill royalty-in-kind program

WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today told Congress he would kill a controversial program that allows energy companies to use actual oil and natural gas — instead of cash — to pay the government royalties for drilling on public lands. Read the full story

Data taken from NationalPriorities.org

• Current cost of war on terror (including Iran and Afghanistan) – $915.1 billion through 2009

  • $130 billion requested for 2010
  • Greater than $1 trillion spent by 2011
  • The war on terror has been funded by taxpayers for 8 years now (2001-2009).

• Cost Obama proposed for his health care plan during 9/10/09 speech – $900 billion over 10 years

  • He also claimed the savings would reduce our deficit by $4 trillion, and would not be funded by taxpayers. Read the full story

Not a good look for the Clintons, President Obama, and other key democrats he has helped…

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200908251258DOWJONESDJONLINE000315_FORTUNE5.htm

NY Businessman Charged With $74 Million Bank Fraud Against Citigroup

A New York man was charged with allegedly defrauding Citigroup Inc. (C) out of $74 million in loans. Read the full story