by Jane Richey | Dec 17, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The number of Americans receiving Social Security disability payments has increased 20 percent since President Barack Obama took office and the influx of new recipients has pushed the program close to insolvency. The annual deficit in the Social Security Disability...
by Jane Richey | Sep 13, 2013 | Health Care
Union fears about the effect of Obamacare on their health insurance plans were getting swift attention from the White House on Friday as President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden prepared to huddle with labor leaders. The session, scheduled for 3:35 p.m. in...
by Jane Richey | Aug 1, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
President Barack Obama – citing the job losses since he took office — said “the economy would be much better off,” unemployment would be 6.5 percent and the national deficit would be in decline if there were more federal, state and local government workers. “If...
by Jane Richey | Jul 25, 2013 | Politics
President Obama sure was excited about his speech yesterday. He talked for more than an hour in sweeping, grandiose terms about everything that’s happened since he became President, and everything that’s still going to happen. If only more of it were true. Here are...
by Jane Richey | Jun 21, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The House is debating its farm bill this week—and now Democrats are saying it doesn’t spend enough on food stamps. The “farm” bill, which isn’t how we picture farms at all, is actually 80 percent food stamps. Don’t forget that the food stamp program has doubled under...
