by Jane Richey | Jul 11, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Both President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney have recently said they would like to balance the federal budget. However, according to data publishedby Obama’s own White House Office of Management and Budget, accomplishing that goal at...
by Jane Richey | May 3, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
If you ran a business with $25 billion in losses over the last five years, $20 billion in annual losses projected in the coming years, and 80 percent of its locations losing money, do you think that your company would stay afloat? Should it be rescued with a bailout...
by Jane Richey | Apr 23, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility
“…Since Barack Obama took office, the U.S. national debt has increased·by more than 5 trillion dollars, and it is rising at a rate of about·150 million dollars an hour….” Debt is a “soft” form of slavery. In America today, it is...
by Jane Richey | Feb 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The city of Harrisburg is Ground Zero for America’s municipal debt crisis. Pennsylvania’s capital city has liabilities estimated at $610 million, which is nearly 10 times its annual budget. The city is so deep in the red that last year it attempted to file for...