9 July 2010, 9:26 pm
His two wars, his tax cuts, his two recessions, his failures responding to 9/11, his failures with Katrina, his insistence that there was never a recession while he was President, his "Sunny D"-scenarios that didn't jibe with reality, his idea of what a manufactured job was (making hamburgers at McD... Read More »
22 June 2010, 11:34 am
The media's enduring, and understandable, fascination with the Tea Party movement continues unabated, as this weekend's coverage demonstrates. Unfortunately, what appear to be false notions of objectivity—or perhaps a lack of interest in policy—is preventing that coverage from illuminating what ... Read More »
14 April 2010, 6:38 am
'Over the last 30 years, rates have fallen more for the wealthy, and especially the very wealthy, than for any other group. At the same time, their incomes have soared, and the incomes of most workers have grown only moderately faster than inflation. So a much greater share of income is now concen... Read More »
10 March 2010, 4:08 am
YOU GUESSED IT - claiming all Social Security payments as tax revenues! His real Deficit was easily a trillion dollars - especially when you figure in his under the table spending on the War and Medicare part D. i.e., Obama didn't triple or even double the Deficit. It went from 1 trillion to 1.6 ... Read More »
25 August 2009, 8:34 am
"Q Thank you. Senate Democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the U.S. economy. Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet, in the same breath, they say that Social Security is rock-solid and there's n... Read More »
5 August 2009, 1:02 pm
I can, and did. The federal budget has never decreased in the last 60+ years that I have found records for, not under Democrats, not under Republicans. (www.cbo.gov). The current budget is $3.4 Trillion. Generally, the GDP grows by 1% or 2% per year. During the 90s we had a huge technology boom and ... Read More »
5 August 2009, 11:25 am
Senator Reid, We as a country cannot tolerate the massive deficit spending you are supporting. We are practically broke as a country and printing money and getting in more debt to China or whoever else is not a responsible action. We need to let the free market level off and businesses go thur ba... Read More »
6 May 2009, 12:51 am
The left has learned a lot from their past immigration losses. Responding to Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) immigration hearing last week, New Democratic Networks’ Simon Rosenberg unveils the left’s new talking points on the issue and they are amazing. We’ve responded to them below: 1) Illegal... Read More »
25 March 2009, 2:52 pm
In theory, floating exchange rates were supposed to allow economies to reduce trade deficits by letting the currency adjust. A weaker exchange rate would drive up the cost of imports and make exports more competitive, thus reducing deficits. Under fixed exchange rates, the economy would have to be c... Read More »
3 February 2009, 4:59 pm
WHO GETS WHAT: Taxpayers will pay stimulus costs AP News Tuesday, February 03, 2009 While lawmakers and economists debate whether the gargantuan stimulus package grinding through Congress will work, one thing is certain: It will create a hefty increase in the federal debt. And that will affect us ... Read More »