Congressman took family on $30k trip to Scotland to attend a wedding – and billed it to his campaign

U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews (D-1st Dist.) spent $7,725 for two rooms at the exclusive Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, in addition to nearly $17,000 for family’s business class airfare

Use of campaign money was approved by his wife, who serves as his compliance officer
Democratic Representative has served in Congress for 21 years
House Committee on Ethics is investigating use of political funds for personal expenses

A New Jersey congressman is under investigation for using campaign funds [...]

Doing the Lord’s Work is Big Business in America with Rich Rewards…

“Private jets, 13 mansions and a $100,000 mobile home just for the dogs: Televangelists ‘defrauded tens of million of dollars from Christian network’” By Nina Golgowski, The Daily Mail

“Two former employees of the world’s largest Christian television channel Trinity Broadcasting Network are accusing the non-profit of spending $50 million of its funding on extravagant personal expenses. Among purchases, the network founded by Televangelists Paul and Jan Crouch, is accused of [...]

This could be Doc Eifrig’s most surprising retirement advice

From Dr. David Eifrig in Retirement Millionaire:

When I first started Retirement Millionaire, one of my first pieces of advice was to never retire.

People who retire at age 55 die twice as fast as those who keep working. And people who keep working can have more confidence that they won’t go broke in retirement.

But that doesn’t mean you should spend your life chained to a desk and a computer. Retirement Millionaire subscriber Wayne [...]

A Greek default has to happen: Politicians can pretend whatever they want, but in the real world where we live, financial deadbeats have no other options

From Simon Black of Sovereign Black

How To Explain Greece To A Complete Idiot/Politician

Let’s pretend for a moment that Greece is a human being. I’ll call him George.

George is a hairdresser and makes $40,000 per year. George has limited assets. He has zero savings, no precious metals, and is way underwater on his mortgage. His credit card debt is over $100,000, and his bare minimum [...]

Marco Rubio is a lying thief… Google it up.

Politico reported that Paul Singer, who founded hedge fund Elliott Management, hosted a New York City fundraiser for several Senate hopefuls, including Rubio.

“Marco Rubio is now the Republican establishment’s candidate, but now it is clear he’s Wall Street’s candidate too,” said Eric Jotkoff, Florida Democratic Party spokesman.

Elliott Management is the second largest contributor to Rubio’s campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which found $86,242 in donations tied to [...]

I read the BLS report, and God help us, the BLS is a total waste of money.

They can only find 5.8 million Americans “who want a job”. They identify 83 million Americans 16 years of age or older who are “not presently in the labor force” and thus not counted as unemployed.

139 million employed, not seasonally adjusted.
14.6 million unemployed, not seasonally adjusted.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t13.htm

Dig a little deeper, and you find there are somewhere between 100 million and 150 million people who are government workers, which means they are [...]