by Jane Richey | Jul 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Dennis Costello runs the Hotel Bethlehem in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, employing 180 workers in the city’s only full-service hotel with restaurants and banquet space. About half his staff takes advantage of employer-provided insurance. But because of...
by Jane Richey | Jul 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
In 1996, Republicans forced through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) bill, also known as welfare reform. It incentivized states to create welfare-to-work programs, trying to transition Americans from government dependency to financial solvency. But...
by Jane Richey | Jul 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
A year after NASA ended the three-decade-long U.S. space shuttle program, thousands of formerly well-paid engineers and other workers around the Kennedy Space Center are still struggling to find jobs to replace the careers that flourished when shuttles blasted off...
by Jane Richey | Jul 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
From Michael Patrick Leahy: President Obama’s “War on Coal” has made it so difficult for electricity producers to use that the percentage of our nation’s electricity coming from coal has plunged from 44% last year to 36% this year. This forced...
by Jane Richey | Jul 13, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
This year, Americans have to work until July 15 to pay for the burden of government, more than six months. In a new report, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) has calculated that Americans will spend a total of 197 days toiling to pay for the cost of government....
by Jane Richey | Jul 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The national debt has now increased by more than $64,000 per federal taxpayer since Barack Obama was inaugurated president. At the close of business on Jan. 20, 2009, according to the U.S. Treasury, the total debt of the federal government was $10,626,877,048,913.08....
