by Jane Richey | Feb 27, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
For the full story click here. Here’s a snippit: The latest taxpayer-funded clean energy debacle–A123 Systems, an electric car battery company–” has laid off 125 employees and had a net loss of $172 million through the first three quarters of 2011,” reports the...
by Jane Richey | Feb 22, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Three years ago on February 17, a newly elected President Barrack Obama signed The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, effectively pumping $787 billion into a flagging American economy. Pennsylvania received $9 billion in recovery funds. Projects funded included...
by Jane Richey | Feb 14, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The 2013 budget promises $3 trillion in deficit cuts over 10 years, mostly through $1.5 trillion in new taxes and $800 billion in savings counted from the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of the savings would be pumped back into the economy, as Obama’s...
by Jane Richey | Feb 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
In 2009, under Gov. Ed Rendell, the state’s education funding formula was filled by substituting federal stimulus funds for a portion of state funds. After stimulus funds vanished last year, Gov. Tom Corbett and public school advocates have been at odds over the...
