by Jane Richey | Feb 26, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
President Barack Obama won’t have to worry about his paycheck if the spending sequestration included in the Budget Control Act that he signed into law in 2011 begins taking effect this Friday. A report published last month by the Congressional Research...
by Jane Richey | Feb 8, 2013 | Health Care
After 25 years of practicing medicine, Dr. Tamzin Rosenwasser packed in her dermatology practice in 2011, barely a year after the passage of President Obama’s health care initiative. The timing wasn’t coincidental. “I have interrupted practicing medicine because of...
by Jane Richey | Jan 22, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
President Barack Obama seemed to reject entitlement reform in his second Inaugural address Monday, even saying Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security “free us to take the risks that make this country great.” “We must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health...
by Jane Richey | Dec 8, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility
The federal budget deficit has reached $292 billion just two months into fiscal 2013, the Congressional Budget Office estimated Friday. That is a fast start for a fiscal year that CBO already predicted will have a deficit of more than $1 trillion — the fifth year in a...
by Jane Richey | Dec 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Ronald Reagan, who was then a movie actor, delivered one of the greatest and most prophetic speeches of the 20th century, when he appeared before the Orange County Press Club on July 28, 1961. Vital Speeches of the Day later published the full text under the headline,...