by Jane Richey | Dec 13, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Health Care
Governor Corbett said ‘no’ to a state health exchange in PA yesterday. Here’s why this is a good decision: If a state does not set up an exchange, the federal government will come in and set it up, according to the law. So far, 22 states have said...
by Jane Richey | Dec 13, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke chastised Washington on Wednesday, saying the failure of President Obama and Congress to agree on a deal to avoid the “fiscal cliff” is already inflicting damage on the economy. In his last scheduled public remarks before tax...
by Jane Richey | Dec 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
A recent poll from the Wells Fargo/Gallup quarterly survey shows that U.S. small business owners are growing “increasingly pessimistic” as the new year approaches, finding that 21 percent of small business owners’ expect to decrease their workforces in the next 12...
by Jane Richey | Dec 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Suppose you saw a building on fire. Would you seek counsel from the arsonist who set it ablaze for advice on how to put it out? You say, “Williams, you’d have to be a lunatic to do that!” But that’s precisely what we’ve done: turned to...
by Jane Richey | Dec 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
PA Congressman Chaka Fattah introduces bill giving the President the authority to raise the debt ceiling as necessary: The “Ending Fiscal Cliffs” act would allow President Obama to raise the debt ceiling unilaterally, a move that has been talked about all week as a...
by Jane Richey | Dec 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
And what, according to every semi-rational conception of mankind the world has ever known, is a man who has no claim on the product of his labor, on his effort, his time, or, as naturally follows, on his own life? The answer would have been self-evident to every man,...
