by Jane Richey | Jun 21, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Washington’s fiscal failure is an exercise in overlooking the obvious. Entitlements are bankrupting the country, yet what’s currently facing the biggest budget ax is the area that has actually shrunk relative to the economy over the last 40 years: defense....
by Jane Richey | May 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
It’s one thing to talk a good game about cutting spending, but it’s quite another thing to actually do something about it. This week, the House of Representatives has an opportunity to finally set some limits on Washington’s spending spree while also ensuring that the...
by Jane Richey | Apr 1, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Senate Republican staffers continue to look though the 2010 health care reform law to see what’s in it, and their latest discovery is a massive $17 trillion funding gap. “The more we learn about the bill, the more we learn it is even more unaffordable than was...
by Jane Richey | Mar 29, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
“There is an important connection — a profound connection” — between people who can’t afford health insurance and liberty, the Obama administration told the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. But the attorney for the 26 states that are...
by Jane Richey | Mar 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other social insurance programs are bankrupting America. They will produce ever-escalating deficits for as far as the eye can see. So what can we do about it? All we hear out of Washington are “eat-your-spinach” solutions — both...