by Jane Richey | Jun 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack intends to appoint “socially disadvantaged farmers” to voting memberships on county committees — the local farmer panels that serve as a direct link between the farm community and the USDA. Right now, all 7,700...
by Jane Richey | Jun 6, 2012 | Politics
“The only governor elected twice in one term,” said Scott Walker’s wife Tonette Tuesday night, as she introduced her husband at a victory rally in Waukesha, following his resounding victory over the union-backed Democrat. Walker’s 7-point...
by Jane Richey | Jun 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The Wisconsin recall election was a local microcosm for a national debate between two competing visions for America – a debate that will be settled, one way or the other, on November 6th, 2012. On one side of the debate are power-hungry big government overspenders who...
by Jane Richey | May 29, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Plosser said Monday that people in the United States have no need “to get all in a dither” over Europe’s debt crisis, according to a report. Plosser told The Wall Street Journal he feels that Europe’s economic...
by Jane Richey | May 26, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
European leaders are calling on the U.S. to be sure and steer clear of the “fiscal cliff” coming at the end of the year, for the good of the global economy. While European nations are grappling with a debt crisis on their own continent, European Commission...
by Jane Richey | May 24, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The typical American household would have paid nearly all of its income in taxes last year to balance the budget if the government used standard accounting rules to compute the deficit, a USA TODAY analysis finds. Under those accounting practices, the government ran...
