by Jane Richey | Aug 14, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
The effort to promote healthy eating at school has spawned student “Fruit and Vegetable Ambassadors,” who are supposed to spread enthusiasm for healthy eating among their fellow students. Students in the summer food service program at Slater Junior High...
by Jane Richey | Aug 14, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The Department of Energy announced the distribution of $43 million in funding for the development of energy storage technology that is “too risky for private-sector investment.” The Aug. 2 press release said the recipients were chosen through two programs of DOE’s...
by Jane Richey | Aug 13, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
WASHINGTON (AP) — Now that Social Security is paying more in benefits than it collects in taxes, there is a fierce debate among politicians, academics and advocates about whether those shortfalls are adding to the federal budget deficit. The issue is important because...
by Jane Richey | Aug 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
For nearly three decades Social Security produced big surpluses, collecting more in taxes from workers than it paid in benefits to retirees, disabled workers, spouses and children. The surpluses also helped mask the size of the budget deficit being generated by the...
by Jane Richey | Aug 13, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Few of the petitioners who appear before Administrative Law Judge Manny Smith hear the word “no.” Smith grants benefits in close to 80 percent of the Social Security disability claims he hears, nearly twice as often as other administrative judges in Western...
by Jane Richey | Aug 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Quick quiz: Who said this about Medicare? “With an aging population and rising health care costs, we are spending too fast to sustain the program. And if we don’t gradually reform the system while protecting current beneficiaries, it won’t be there when future...
