The Liberty Guardian
July 30th, 2010

A Real Conservative: Congressman Paul Returns Over $100,000 to Treasury

Dr. Ron Paul doesn’t just talk a big game about fiscal conservatism, he lives it. Dr. Ron Paul’s congressional office has just paid back $100,000.

Colorado Springs Cuts City Services, Lets The Town Go Dark

More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled.

Spending Freeze Not Likely

by Ron Paul

Last week politicians in Washington made a few things clear about how they really feel about the state of the union. First, they are beginning to hear the growing discontent with the size and scope of government and the broken promises that keep piling up. Certain events in Massachusetts recently made that statement loud, clear and unavoidable. In the face of those events, the powers that be made the determination that some populist rhetoric was in order, and the idea of a spending freeze in Washington was proposed, albeit with several caveats.

California controller: State will run out of cash before April

State Controller John Chiang issued a stern warning about California’s cash reserves, they must act on nearly $9 billion in budget cuts or the state will run out of cash

Snowstorms Squeezing States Budgets

Paying for Future Storms Worries Officials After Blizzards Squeeze Cash-Strapped Budgets in Midwest, East

U.S. National Debt Tops Debt Limit

The latest calculation of the National Debt as posted by the Treasury Department has exceeded the statutory Debt Limit

Nancy Pelosi Spent $2,993 On Flowers

$2,993 On flowers, $30,610 in food and beverage, $2,740 on bottled water…Doing her part to reduce the Deficit.

California budget shortfall to top $21 billion

Despite strong efforts to cut the deficit, next year’s budget shortfall will be much larger than initially forecast

BROKE

NYC Ordered to cut $2 BILLION more….or face “Worst Case Scenario”