by Jane Richey | Feb 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Energy Secretary Steven Chu again warned Friday that more recipients of Energy Department green technology loan guarantees will likely collapse even as he touted the strength of the program overall. The White House commissioned the report last October amid increasing...
by Jane Richey | Feb 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that Congress does not need an official federal budget because it can just adopt appropriations bills and authorization policies as needed to keep operating. Hoyer said: “What does the budget do? The budget does one thing...
by Jane Richey | Feb 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
President Obama’s 2013 budget due out Monday will estimate the deficit for 2012 to be $1.33 trillion, higher than the $1.29 trillion deficit in 2011, according to senior administration officials. The increase happens largely because the budget assumes enactment of a...
by Jane Richey | Feb 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
In Kensington and Eastern North Philadelphia, the unemployment rate for young adult dropouts is close to 50 percent. While staggering, that number only begins to tell the story. Roughly 1,500 of the 3,000 or so dropouts aged 20-24 in this part of the city are not even...
by Jane Richey | Feb 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Lloyd Marcus: Our 40th president’s birthday earlier this month caused me to reflect upon how Ronald Reagan impacted my life. In 1981, I was a young singer/songwriter, clueless about politics, when Ronald Reagan won the presidency. An event planner asked me to...
by Jane Richey | Feb 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
In 2009, under Gov. Ed Rendell, the state’s education funding formula was filled by substituting federal stimulus funds for a portion of state funds. After stimulus funds vanished last year, Gov. Tom Corbett and public school advocates have been at odds over the...
