by Jane Richey | Jan 22, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
More lost US jobs and what will that do to the price of chicken and what about China’s food safety record? The USDA has approved the processing of U.S.-raised chickens in China, for import back into this country – and back into our supermarkets and schools. It...
by Jane Richey | Jan 21, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility
Under President Barack Obama, the total debt of the U.S. government has increased by approximately $1,608,304 for each of the 4,130,665 babies born in the United States in 2009, the year Obama took office. – See more at:...
by Jane Richey | Jan 21, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Thomas Jefferson was radically anti-tax, pro-gun and anti-central bank. He loved precious metals, he openly acknowledged a “Creator” and he wanted to add an amendment to the Constitution which would ban the federal government from going into debt. If he was around...
by Jane Richey | Jan 16, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The allure of recess won out Thursday as senators sped up the timeline and cleared a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill. Passage completes the process on Capitol Hill of keeping the government funded through the end of the fiscal year at the end of September....
by Jane Richey | Jan 16, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Over the past several decades, big-government lawmakers and lobbyists have developed a wide array of techniques they have used to successfully advance their own interests, usually to the detriment of our nation. If conservatives are to be successful in changing...
by Jane Richey | Jan 16, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Those are all ways Heritage experts have described government programs Congress is funding—with your hard-earned money—in its new trillion-dollar omnibus spending bill. Here are a few big failures that need to be eliminated or seriously reformed—but instead are...