by Jane Richey | Feb 15, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The House voted Friday to freeze the pay of federal workers for the third year in a row over the objections of congressional Democrats and the Obama administration. Members voted 261-154 in favor of the bill, which would also lock in a pay freeze for members of...
by Jane Richey | Feb 15, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that $1.55 billion in new federal tax dollars will be allocated for the first-ever Hawaiian Transit Rail system on the island of Oahu, which will serve downtown Honolulu, at a total federal and state cost of $5.1...
by Jane Richey | Feb 15, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Ohio University economist Richard Vedder believes they were right. He says an expanding system of government benefits has helped create a poverty rate of 14 percent. “They’re actually creating a dependency on government, which is unhealthy both for the...
by Jane Richey | Feb 14, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
During Tuesday’s State of the Union, President Obama called for an increase in preschool education in order to prepare workers in the future: “[N]one of it will matter unless we also equip our citizens with the skills and training to fill those jobs. And that...
by Jane Richey | Feb 14, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama described the upcoming sequestration cuts as “sudden, harsh, arbitrary cuts,” claiming they would “devastate” important government functions and cost “hundreds of thousands of jobs.” However, according to...
by Jane Richey | Feb 13, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
President Barack Obama’s proposal to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour from the current $7.25 would harm the economy, some Republicans said Tuesday after the State of the Union address. “If you raise the minimum wage, the inevitable effect will be, number one,...
