by Jane Richey | Feb 26, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
President Barack Obama won’t have to worry about his paycheck if the spending sequestration included in the Budget Control Act that he signed into law in 2011 begins taking effect this Friday. A report published last month by the Congressional Research...
by Jane Richey | Feb 26, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Why would federal agencies cut their most vital assets instead of trimming around the edges? After all, the sequestration cuts are only 2.4 percent of federal spending. Take a couple of examples. President Obama said that “Air traffic controllers and airport security...
by Jane Richey | Feb 26, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Inflation-adjusted per capita federal spending went up $822.90 from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2012, according to official data from the U.S. Treasury and the Census Bureau. Real federal spending also increased $2437.64 per household between 2008 and 2012. In constant 2012...
by Jane Richey | Feb 25, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
President Obama on Monday asked the nation’s governors to help pressure Congress to strike a deal to avert the looming sequester cuts set to hit at the end of the month. “While you are in town I hope you speak with your congressional delegation and remind...
by Jane Richey | Feb 25, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
Trying to head off the looming sequestration budget cuts (most of which aren’t cuts at all), President Obama yesterday released a guide of how each state will be affected. He’s putting particular emphasis on education cuts. As the Washington Post darkly warns, “The...
by Jane Richey | Feb 24, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Health Care
Former Senator Jim DeMint: “If we can’t get the president to come off the military cuts, we need to leave these cuts in place. In most cases, it’s not really cuts. It’s just a slowing of the growth of spending which has been out of control for years. I would...
