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• Obama Is Set to Become the First President to Ever Do This

  April 10, 2013 at 11:55pm

  Hey, in case you guys are interested, I spent a number of months looking through the 40,000+ lines of budget data the Government Printing Office releases, as well as the Federal codes surrounding the U.S. Budget and so forth. I put the whole story together, from 2004 to present, (minus this new budget, but inferences can be made easily) here: http://evanberrett.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/the-story-of-the-u-s-budget-2004-2013-putting-the-puzzle-together/

  The President’s spending habits and his own past proposed budgets show he has no intention of lowering spending, but instead raising taxes. Indeed, I can pinpoint many, many areas of spending that were initiated for FY 2009 (mostly by President Obama since the FY 2009 budget was very late and passed in March of 2009, signed by President Obama), that can be eliminated.

  I also give a number of sources for you so you can do your own research. It’s there, you just need to look a bit. Crazy stuff.

• Senate Passes First Budget in 4 Years

  March 23, 2013 at 11:47am

  In case anyone is interested, I spent about four months studying the U.S. Budget from 2004 to Present. I’ve written up an extensive article complete with graphics, actual numbers, and where the budget laws are found regarding this U.S. Budget.

  http://evanberrett.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/the-story-of-the-u-s-budget-2004-2013-putting-the-puzzle-together/

  I found that while raising taxes does seem to actually fill a void, they only needed raising to a point and for so long which…the Democrats don’t seem to want to keep to. There’s lots more at the link above.

  It’s best we approach this I believe with an open mind, and understand that the budget for a country is incredibly complicated. The current budget that I read through (FY 2013) contains 40,000+ items of expenditures and it’s actually harder than you might think to find which programs to cut without an extensive knowledge behind each program.

• New Allegations About ‘Murder-Obsessed’ Sandy Hook Killer Shows Scary Depth of Sinister Plans

  March 18, 2013 at 5:21pm

  In reply to coldarkstare.

  Agreed.

  Since when is this true: “It’s why he didn’t want to be killed by law enforcement. In the code of a gamer, even a deranged gamer like this little bastard, if somebody else kills you, they get your points.”

  When I’ve played video games I’ve never had someone else gets my “points”.

• Senate Dems’ First Proposed Budget in 4 Years Adds $4 Trillion to National Debt, Includes $1 Trillion in New Tax Hikes

  March 14, 2013 at 8:53am

  May I point out that this Budget proposal follow the President’s, and is quite in line with their forecasts found in the FY 2013 Budget made available to the public via the Government Printing office (gpo.org). You can see a graphical representation of this here: http://evanberrett.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/usspendingvsincome.jpg

  Mind you, a lot is going to be said over the next few months about the budget, and a lot of it will be skewed or half-truths. Concerned I wasn’t aware of the whole story, I did a 4-month long study into the Budget and wrote up the actual story of what happened between 2004-2013, how the Budget actually functions, who has the authority to do what, and so on in an all inclusive article. I hope you would take a look at it and share it so that we can all be on the same page as we try and finally figure out a budget for the U.S.

  http://evanberrett.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/the-story-of-the-u-s-budget-2004-2013-putting-the-puzzle-together/

• Washington Gov. Says 6 Underground Radioactive Waste Tanks at Nuclear Site Are Leaking

  February 23, 2013 at 12:15am

  In reply to Red Meat.

  KUPO is right, it’s a possibility. If funding is provided however, real work can be done to prevent this, radioactive material can be handled effectively with vitrification (see http://evanberrett.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/can-nuclear-waste-be-tamed/) and Nuclear can be great, safe power. Here and now though, there are some concerns. – Richland, WA native, father has worked at Hanford for 20+ years

• Washington Gov. Says 6 Underground Radioactive Waste Tanks at Nuclear Site Are Leaking

  February 23, 2013 at 12:01am

  In reply to wilbstal.

  Before you jump the gun, Nuclear Power is something conservatives should vote for. Additionally…Hanford is on the East side of the state, SE to be exact which is very dominantly Republican. The Democrat demographic is mostly in the West side of the state. – From a former 19-year resident or Richland, Washington, a mile away from Hanford.

• Washington Gov. Says 6 Underground Radioactive Waste Tanks at Nuclear Site Are Leaking

  February 22, 2013 at 11:58pm

  In reply to EvanBerrett.

  @Kupo I would agree. It was an ad hoc storage system done with inadequate research. Energy Northwest was not created by then, and as far as I know, the tanks were already being used by the time WPPSS was initiated making the Columbia generating station.

  @PJNO524 Great example. Many misconceptions are floating around about radiation and Nuclear Power when in fact there are far more positive effects. I give great examples in the blog post I referred to above, including sources and further descriptions. Radiation and Nuclear Power can be dangerous, but overwhelmingly it is safe when managed right. Chernobyl and Fukishima are NOT good examples of that.

  @Pigswillneverfly Yucca Mountain could still happen, but politics are getting in the way. If the vitrification could actually be performed on all the waste, and then transported, then Yucca Mountain could be a site for that waste which would of course break apart, but only after its half life thanks to the vitrification process that no one seems to know about. Politicians just like to imagine vats of radioactive sludge and therefore don’t make educated decisions.

  @Defcon4, thanks for the suggestion, I’ll definitely look it up.

• Washington Gov. Says 6 Underground Radioactive Waste Tanks at Nuclear Site Are Leaking

  February 22, 2013 at 6:55pm

  I’m actually from that area, Richland Washington, and my dad works at that Hanford Nuclear Power Plant (which is actually now called Energy Northwest). The truth is, that site is home to major research projects dedicated to trying to find ways to safely dispose of the waste. They are trying to develop the process known as vitrification, which essentially turns it into glass safely stored for longer than the half-life of the hazardous materials. Problem is, the project keeps getting funded, de-funded, funded, de-funded, etc etc. Therefore it can’t be finished thanks to a stigma against Radiation and Nuclear Power which is just a never-ending cycle. People are afraid of it, so it goes unfunded. Unfunded it can’t get fixed. Can’t get fixed, issues like this arise, and people get afraid again.

  I actually wrote a blog post about this found here: http://evanberrett.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/can-nuclear-waste-be-tamed/ There I give links about the process of vitrification.

  You can also find articles about all kinds of other stuff that goes unmentioned.

• Meet the Mormon Presidential Candidate in Mali Who Has a Bold Plan for Combatting Islamic Extremism

  February 8, 2013 at 4:28pm

  In reply to AUsername.

  …said I’m guessing because you read it somewhere from a no-where near official source. That statement is very much untrue. Try going to http://mormon.org to see why.

• Union Leaders’ Epiphany Leaves Them Scrambling: Wait, Obamacare Is Going to Drive up Our Costs?

  January 31, 2013 at 11:32pm

  I actually just finished some fairly extensive research on Unions. In the data I collected, I found that there is some truth to what they do, but more than anything, their efforts are becoming obsolete. This story only serves to prove that. You can see more of what I found here:

  http://evanberrett.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/assemble-and-organize-unions-then-and-now/

  I found it especially interesting that the AFL-CIO, one of the two unions that actually has absorbed most other unions, makes clear that a seeking of affordable health care is part of their mission for employees (nothing wrong with that), but does not indicate any sort of real plan on their website. The data I found would indicate they are doing little more than giving members higher wages (but not to all professions), and being a political actor.