by Jane Richey | Feb 8, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
In a move intended to intensify pressure on Congress to prevent looming spending cuts set for March 1, White House officials told reporters the cuts would hamper law enforcement, hurt federal education programs, withhold mental health services and furlough thousands...
by Jane Richey | Feb 8, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The latest Gallup Poll indicates that many American small-business owners are anything but optimistic when it comes to the way the Obama administration is leading the nation. In fact, they’re downright fearful. According to the recently released Wells...
by Jane Richey | Feb 7, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
President Barack Obama has presided over the weakest multi-year economic recovery since the end of World War II, according to data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Since the end of the last recession in June 2009, the economy has grown only 7.5...
by Jane Richey | Feb 6, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Health Care
The Congressional Budget Office is offering a bleak picture of the exponential growth of entitlement spending over the next decade, stating that 53% of all federal spending in that time, amounting to $24.9 trillion, will be due to entitlements and Obamacare. n its...
by Jane Richey | Feb 6, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposed pension reform package, which calls for new employees to be enrolled in a 401(k) and current employees to see some changes in the way their pensions are calculated, is being met with fierce, but predictable opposition from state...
by Jane Richey | Feb 6, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Obama lately has acted as though most of the work has already been done to get the debt problem under control. At a recent press conference, he claimed that he’s already cut long-term deficits by $2.5 trillion and that “closing some additional loopholes...
