by Jane Richey | Nov 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
If Americans under the age of 18 were required as a group to pay off the entirety of the federal government’s debt in equal shares, each would now need to pay about $218,676. That is more than the $130,468 average price tag for four years at a private college or the...
by Jane Richey | Nov 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Placement in jobs retained more than six months through a $500 million Labor Department green-jobs training program is falling 84 percent short of its goal, according to a report released Friday. The Labor inspector general audit offered a bleak picture of one of...
by Jane Richey | Nov 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
President Obama has a new booklet—a glossy, 20-page spread called “The New Economic Patriotism: A Plan for Jobs and Middle-Class Security.” The title is completely Orwellian, since the plan—which is nothing new—would actually kill jobs, harming the middle class. As...
by Jane Richey | Nov 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Republican Sen. James Inhofe says the Environmental Protection Agency has delayed action or “punted” on numerous regulations while President Obama tries to “earn votes” for a second term. The Oklahoma senator and ranking Republican on the chamber’s Committee on...
by Jane Richey | Nov 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The federal government spent $27 million teaching Moroccans how to make pottery, a project that yielded less than stellar results, according to Sen. Tom Coburn’s recently released Waste Book 2012. Some pottery students showed up just to get the free lunches, and one...
by Jane Richey | Nov 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
It’s been a pretty big year for welfare—and a new report shows welfare is bigger than ever. The Obama Administration turned a giant spotlight on the welfare system in July when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proclaimed it had the authority to gut...
