by Jane Richey | Feb 15, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Ohio University economist Richard Vedder believes they were right. He says an expanding system of government benefits has helped create a poverty rate of 14 percent. “They’re actually creating a dependency on government, which is unhealthy both for the...
by Jane Richey | Jan 18, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
A new report says the government’s program that gives families aid to pay for groceries is failing in some aspects of its execution, such as not accounting for many barriers to finding affordable, nutritious food by inner-city shoppers. The report, which was put...
by Jane Richey | Jan 10, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The Obama Administration is proudly shattering welfare records with an astonishing number of people collecting public benefits long term, especially food stamps. Judicial Watch has reported in the past how out of control the government’s food stamp program has gotten...
by Jane Richey | Jan 7, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
During fiscal year 2012, the U.S. government spent a record $80.4 billion on food stamps, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a $2.7 billion increase from FY 2011. (Fiscal year 2012 ran from Oct. 1, 2011 through Sept. 30, 2012.) According to the...
by Jane Richey | Nov 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The punditocracy, like the oracles of old, has spoken. Obama won because of various and sundry reasons, most of which can be debated and none of which is the single, sufficient cause. But one reason, or unreason, was a definite and perhaps the single most important...
