Obama Pushes U.S. Credit Rating Below France
On Tuesday, February 2, President Obama released his budget forecasting a deficit for 2010 of $1.6 trillion for the year and $9.1 trillion from 2010… Read More
On Tuesday, February 2, President Obama released his budget forecasting a deficit for 2010 of $1.6 trillion for the year and $9.1 trillion from 2010… Read More
Facing the stark reality of double-digit unemployment and the failure of his first $862 billion economic stimulus, President Barack Obama unveiled his second stimulus plan… Read More
Fiscal reform has become a hot topic in Washington as spending hits all-time highs and Congress and the President continue to push several new high-ticket… Read More
Increasing spending on the State Department and international affairs while freezing discretionary domestic spending is probably not likely to endear President Obama further to constituencies… Read More
High corporate tax rates are undermining U.S. international competitiveness. The global economy continues to demand that companies be flexible and swift in order to remain… Read More
From the creator of Obama Budget Cuts Visualization and The National Debt Road Trip, now comes, What Does The Federal Budget Freeze Look Like? For… Read More
During his State of the Union Address, Obama said that if “anyone from either party has a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring… Read More
What does America’s declining economic freedom mean for you? It means that America will create fewer jobs. And that means that Americans will be poorer,… Read More
During his State of the Union address, President Obama talked about a proposed spending freeze (underwhelming, as it is) and how such action can save… Read More
Hancock Lumber company has been around for 180 years, was started before more than half the states joined the Union, survived the Civil War and… Read More
Figures released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics provide less encouragement than today’s GDP report. Total compensation increased by only 1.5 percent in 2009… Read More
On Thursday, the Senate passed a bill to increase the debt limit. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) amended version of the bill passed by… Read More
In his State of the Union address Wednesday night, President Obama repeated his call for a tax on banks, calling it “a modest fee to… Read More
Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas weighs in on President Obama’s proposed spending freeze. It goes without saying that when even the Daily Kos fails to find merit in the President’s proposals, the Administration needs to step back and reevaluate its policies.
While jobs and the economy are at the forefront of all Americans’ minds, Congress has the ability to create jobs, raise federal revenues, and boost… Read More
On Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” Chuck Todd discussed an NBC poll that shows 70% of Americans say government isn’t working and commented that because of… Read More
Our nation is on an unsustainable fiscal course. The three major entitlements – Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid – alone are set to eclipse historical… Read More
The Senate this week is considering amendments to Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) legislation to raise the debt limit. Reid’s bill is a substitute to… Read More
Two weeks ago, CBS News filed a story on the over 100 people (including Senators, Representatives, their spouses, and staff) that flew to the failed United… Read More
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has a radical alternative to raising the debt limit: spend less money. In an amendment introduced last week Senator Coburn proposed… Read More
This weekend three different White House advisers speaking on three different Sunday shows gave three different answers as to how many jobs President Barack Obama’s… Read More
Today in Washington, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) launched its new Debt Reduction Task Force, chaired by former Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) and former OMB… Read More
This year’s Index of Economic Freedom contains the unsettling news that the United States has dropped out of the exclusive club of free economies and… Read More
Forget the war on terrorism, the war on drugs, even the war on poverty. President Obama seems to have declared a new war, a war… Read More
The vote looming in the Senate to raise the debt limit should serve as a wake-up call that federal spending is out of control. Instead,… Read More
According to a Reuters report, French economy minister Christine Lagarde today applauded President Obama’s call for more regulation of the U.S. financial sector. “I am… Read More
The President asserted during a major speech in January: “One of the greatest contributions the United States can make to the world is to promote… Read More
It’s a common refrain among progressives when criticizing free-market economic policy – “Conservatives are out of touch”. Conservatives don’t know how to create jobs, the… Read More
From the President who brought you unaccountable, constitutionally-questionable czars comes the latest innovation in pass-the-buck leadership: a White House executive commission designed to solve the… Read More
Fostering diversity in, and minority access to, channels of communication has long been a key goal of the Federal Communications Commission. In practice, this all… Read More
