by Jane Richey | Feb 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
You don’t need to log on to President Barack Obama’s Facebook page to find out who his friends are, and you don’t need to read tea leaves, gaze into a crystal ball, or consult a psychic to learn where his priorities lie. No, you only have to take a look at his 2013...
by Jane Richey | Feb 14, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The 2013 budget promises $3 trillion in deficit cuts over 10 years, mostly through $1.5 trillion in new taxes and $800 billion in savings counted from the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of the savings would be pumped back into the economy, as Obama’s...
by Jane Richey | Feb 14, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The federal debt has increased by $4.47 trillion since President Barack Obama released his first federal budget on Feb. 26, 2009. That budget was entitled “A New Era of Responsibility.” On Feb. 26, 2009, as Obama released his budget for fiscal 2010, the...
by Jane Richey | Feb 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The legislation includes a county-option and is designed to provide revenue for environmental programs across the state. The bill also will trigger a review of zoning codes and their relation to drilling for the natural gas trapped below the earth’s crust —a process...
by Jane Richey | Feb 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that Congress does not need an official federal budget because it can just adopt appropriations bills and authorization policies as needed to keep operating. Hoyer said: “What does the budget do? The budget does one thing...
