by Jane Richey | Jun 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Ask anyone who owns a business what happens if you borrow and spend more than you take in as revenue. After your listener has a good chuckle, she will undoubtedly tell you that you won’t have that business for very long. Then ask her what happens if the...
by Jane Richey | May 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Tens of thousands of protesters in Madrid flooded into the central Puerta del Sol plaza in the evening and aimed to stay for three days. But authorities warned they wouldn’t allow anyone to camp out overnight, and up to 2,000 riot police were expected to be on...
by Jane Richey | Mar 22, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
President Barack Obama has now increased the national debt by approximately $5 trillion since the day he was inaugurated, according to the official debt figuresthe U.S. Treasury released at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday. While Obama has been president, the federal...
by Jane Richey | Mar 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
America’s fiscal condition is dauntingly dismal. The national debt is well on its way to $17 trillion, 13 million Americans are out of work, and the country is stuck in the slowest recovery in the post-war era. Despite Washington bleeding taxpayers dry with reckless...
by Jane Richey | Mar 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Senators Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Mike Lee (R.-Utah) and Jim DeMint (R.-S.C.) introduced a budget plan on Thursday that would balance the budget in five years and pay down $2 trillion of the national debt in 10 years. The plan includes spending cuts, entitlement reforms and...