by Jane Richey | Feb 10, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
According to PoliticsPa they are: Winners – Taxpayers Philadelphia Longshoremen School Boards Businesses Losers: Higher Education Roads and Bridges Agriculture Environmental Protection For more details click here....
by Jane Richey | Feb 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the United Nation’s Brundtland Report, which defined Sustainable Development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” But...
by Jane Richey | Feb 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
This equates to a land of servitude to the government. Here are some very troubling stats: When John F. Kennedy was President, just over a quarter of federal spending went to fund programs paying for some 21.7 million Americans to be dependent on Uncle Sam. But as...
by Jane Richey | Feb 9, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the current trajectory of the federal budget – marked by large annual deficits – was “clearly unsustainable” and that “serious economic consequences” could result. “Having a large and increasing level of government debt...
by Jane Richey | Feb 7, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Students at Shippensburg University in central Pennsylvania can get the “morning-after” pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine installed at the request of the student government. The Etter Health Center at Shippensburg, a public school of 8,300...
by Jane Richey | Feb 7, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
For those who remember the TV series, call it the “Green Acres” effect. Fueled by an economic downturn that has curtailed the upward mobility of many corporate jobs, general dissatisfaction with suburban stresses and growing discontent with what they see...
