Spending

• Pearl Harbor as a Noble Lie
  Soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, rumors began to circulate challenging the official narrative [...]
• Federal Reserve Worries ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Is as Big a Threat as Europe, Still Voices Call For Quantitative Easing
  Federal Reserve officials are increasingly concerned about the coming “fiscal cliff,” putting it on par with the European financial crisis [...]
• Half-a-Trillion Tax Hike on January 1, 2013
  Financial D-Day is Upon Us! What some financial experts have called “Taxmageddon” is now in our face! But in the probable [...]
• America First Personal Income Tax Plan
  The personal tax rates in our current 75,000 page tax system must be reduced while we develop a permanent new [...]
• Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget is a moral budget
  Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., chairman of the House Budget Committee, provoked some angry pushback when he claimed that not [...]
• Your Tax Dollars Subsidizing the Wealthy
  We knew electric vehicles were expensive, but we didn’t know just how much of that expense was the battery alone. [...]
• 95% Of The Jobs Lost During The Recession Were Middle Class Jobs
  Who is the biggest loser in the ongoing decline of the U.S. economy?  Is it the wealthy?  No, the [...]
• How to keep the poor poor
  Media personality Tavis Smiley and Princeton philosophy professor Cornell West have just published their latest contribution to American [...]
• Crucify all bureaucrats whose “philosophy” is based on ideology and emotion—others will behave better
  The revelation of the EPA’s “philosophy” used in their regulation of oil and gas companies—“crucify” and “make examples” of, just [...]
• One Nation Under Debt With Endless Debt Slavery For All
  Debt is a “soft” form of slavery.  In America today, it is not legal to bind people up with [...]
• Republicans Are Going Soft
  In 2010, conservatives sent a strong, clear message to President Obama’s Administration, liberals in Congress and the rest of [...]
• Looking At Our Failing, Liberal, and Expensive Public Education System
  The graduate may swing his tassel to the left side of his cap, but what does he have to show [...]
• Report: Hundreds of Billions spent on K-12 Education gets only ‘Stagnant Test Scores’
  The following report was written by Neal McClusky and originally title “K-12 Subsidies” on DownsizingGovernment.org Overview: Federal control over K-12 education has [...]
• How Much Education Spending Is Enough?
  The Washington Times reports that the Obama administration’s answer to everything really is simply to spend more: March 22: Education Secretary [...]
• An Introduction to RRR: A unique plan for economic recovery and job creation.
  As a conservative Democrat, I have gotten accustomed to saying things my Party does not like to hear. Quite frankly, [...]
• 7-Day New York March for DREAM Act
  From the Editor: Welfare for our own people is crippling our economy (and moral fiber) enough, yet demands for it [...]
• DHS asks: Do you have “malintent”?
  Ya know, you just can’t make this stuff up. Every time the Department of Homeland Security comes out with [...]
• Liberals Propose MASSIVE Tax Hikes!
  So now we know exactly where House Democrats stand. We knew that if they ever produced a budget it would [...]
• Morgan Stanley Is High On Chinese Rail!
  Morgan Stanley is in fact very high on Chinese Rail. No thank you. I am not suggesting Morgan Stanley is [...]
• Yes, We Can Wait
  In pushing through parts of the New Deal, President Franklin Roosevelt reportedly told one wavering congressman, “I hope you [...]
• Bank Runs and Youth Runs
  After we learned our lesson in the Great Depression it looked like the era of the bank run was [...]
• Time for a Cut, Cap & Balance Budget
  The most important policy imperative in the world today is for the United States to balance its budget. Though [...]
• Obamacare Premise Is Just Wrong
  Next week, the Supreme Court takes up the Obamacare litigation, the heart of which is the issue of whether [...]
• GOP must decide: Reject Dems’ crony capitalism?
  When President Eisenhower appointed General Motors CEO Charles Erwin Wilson to be Secretary of Defense, many people questioned whether [...]
• Congress Must Stop Borrowing Money — Take Action!
  In 2010, Americans sent a clear message to the government that they wanted to stop the out of control spending [...]
• Are we spending too much on the TSA?
  If Jon Corbett’s viral video about how he outsmarted the TSA’s full-body scanners doesn’t end the controversial screening program, then [...]
• Real Rebels and the Counter Revolution
  Think of America’s Founders.  These were real rebels. Sam Adams agitated against the imposition of taxes.  He penned the petitions which [...]
• Sen. Paul Unveils FY2013 Budget: A Platform to Revitalize America
  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Rand Paul yesterday unveiled his FY2013 budget, “A Platform to Revitalize America,” a plan that [...]
• DeMint signals he may not support Ryan budget
  Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Jim DeMint, R-S.C., unveiled a plan to balance the budget in five [...]
• Govt. sets record deficit in February
  The federal government recorded its worst monthly deficit in history in February, according to a preliminary report Wednesday from the [...]
• As Presidential Contenders Cite Fiscal Ratings from Citizen Groups, National Taxpayers Union Offers Clarification on Its Scorecard Results
  (Alexandria, VA) – During [the February 22] debate among Republican Presidential candidates, several citizen groups’ congressional scorecards entered the spotlight [...]
• City of Los Angeles Pretends to Allow Illegal Aliens to Keep Cars
  For the past two weeks, arguably the two most corrupt law enforcement officials in the nation, LA County Sheriff Lee [...]
• Gasoline Prices Are Not Rising, the Dollar Is Falling
  Panic is in the air as gasoline prices move above $4.00 per gallon. Politicians and pundits are rounding up [...]
• Guantanamo gets a $750K soccer field
  At a time of record deficits, a new soccer field for detainees at Camp 6 in Guantanamo Bay is just [...]
• Obama hits Romney hard on auto bailout
  President Barack Obama has been digging at Mitt Romney’s opposition to the auto bailout for months, but as he spoke [...]
• A Budget Rear-View Mirror
  Now that Obama’s last budget — we hope — is out, a mere week after the statutory deadline, the nation’s [...]
• Obama’s Federal Pay Raise Includes Tax Cheats
  Do you believe the government does a good job…at anything? Even though the federal government bungles almost everything it touches, [...]
• Up From Big Government Conservatism
  It was yet another embarrassing spectacle of Republicans squabbling over who was for big government first. Jim Talent, a former [...]
• The penalties of feel-good energy policies
  Because of the unproven notion that burning fossil fuels causes global warming, saving energy has become the cultural norm with [...]
• Illinois Gov creates DREAM Act scholarship fund
  Gov. Pat Quinn announced the DREAM Fund Commission at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights ( [...]
• Report: Government dependency jumps 25 percent since 2005
  The American public’s dependency on government programs jumped almost 25 percent since 2005, according to a study released Wednesday by [...]
• Rebuttal: Troops Aren’t Helped By Being Coddled
  The following piece is a response to Obama Pulls Combat Pay for U.S. Troops, which was shared on Conservative Action [...]
• Sen. Rand Paul Introduces Amendment to end Foreign Aid to Egypt
  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sen. Rand Paul today took to the Senate floor to announce his intention an introduce an [...]
• Highway Robbery by Republicans
  Anyone still wondering why there is a disconnect between grassroots limited-government conservatives and the Washington establishment need look [...]
• How Big Government Drives Jobs Overseas
  A new video from U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) explains how big government is making it harder for [...]
• Sen. DeMint: Why Republicans Must Become More Libertarian
  “The new debate in the Republican party needs to be between conservatives and libertarians,” says Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). “A [...]
• Nanny State Giving Out Free Cell Phones, Minutes To Welfare Recipients
  Did you know that the federal government is giving out free cell phones and free cell phone minutes to [...]
• Obama pushed Dodd-Frank because of God
  President Barack Obama has been taking lumps from Republicans for years over his support for Wall Street and health [...]
• Obama avoids Drug question in Google+ Hangout
  On Monday, President Obama participated in a Google+ video forum where he responded to questions from potential voters that were [...]
• If the Economy is Getting Better …
  Everywhere you turn these days, someone is proclaiming that the economy is improving.  Barack Obama is endlessly touting the [...]
• Our ‘Employment Prevention Agency’
  In just the past few months, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have decided that jobs are [...]
• How Dumb Do They Think We Are?
  I’ve been called a fascist by communists and a communist by fascists.  I’ve been called a pagan by Christians and [...]
• Vote Is TODAY on Debt Limit Hike – Tell Congress NO!
  Vote is TODAY on ANOTHER Debt Ceiling Increase — Tell Congress to REJECT Obama’s Request: https://secure.conservativedonations.com/rm_debtlimit/?a=2565 ALERT: TODAY is the vote [...]
• Paul heads back to D.C. for debt ceiling vote
  Rep. Ron Paul of Texas is taking a day off from the campaign trail in South Carolina to return [...]
• ECO-SCAM: Solyndra Wants To Pay HUGE Bonuses With Taxpayer Money!
  Taxpayer-Financed Solyndra Wants to Pay Six-Figure Employees HUGE Bonuses! DEMAND That Congress DIG DEEPER Into Obama’s “ECO-SCAM” NOW! The Washington Times [...]
• Sen. Paul Announces Taxpayer Savings at Louisville Press Conference
  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Rand Paul today announced that he is returning $500,000 to the United States [...]
• Obamas held a secret Alice in Wonderland-themed party at White House in depths of recession in 2009
  Right as the economy was going down the rabbit hole, the Obamas decided to host an Alice in Wonderland [...]
• 2012: What Will It Be
  The professional doom peddlers would have us believe that because a certain Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012 the [...]
• CA: Brown Seeks 7% California Spending Boost
  California Governor Jerry Brown proposed $92.6 billion in spending for the year starting in July, an increase of about 7 [...]
• Hayek Vindicated Again
  Way back on the Federal Page of today’s Washington Post is an article that ought to be on the [...]
• Big Government cannot pay its bills. Again
  Since Barack Obama became president on Jan. 20, 2009, the federal government has not had a budget. It did [...]
• Boehner demands Senate cancel its vacation
  Racing to meet an end-of-year deadline, House Speaker John A. Boehner said Monday the House will insist on a full-year [...]
• Congress leaders hope deal near on gov’t shutdown
  Shifting from confrontation to cooperation, congressional leaders expressed optimism Thursday that agreement was near on extending this year’s [...]
• Putting the Paste Back in the Tube
  We all know that trying the same thing over and over expecting different results is a popular definition of insanity.  [...]
• How Billionaires Abuse California Families
  In 1978 we were told that if we passed Prop. 13 police and fire departments would be closed, along with [...]
• House Bills to End Congress’ Retirement Plans, Financial Perks
  Americans Are Demanding Congress to CUT THEIR OWN PAY and END THEIR PENSION PLAN: “If We The People make sacrifices, [...]
• Is Peace Through Strength No Longer Possible?
  Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution clearly states that Congress will “provide for the common defense” of [...]
• Will 2012 be the year of the tax increase ballot measure?
  In the past seven years California racked up $165 billion worth of deficits under the amateur Arnold.  In the first [...]
• Barack Obama to offer ‘Advice’ on Europe’s Crisis
  After meeting European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, President Obama [...]
• Maxine Waters in line to take over from Frank on Financial Services Committee
  Wall Street executives are bracing for the possibility that Rep. Maxine Waters will take over as the top Democrat [...]
• House rejects balanced budget amendment
  The Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Friday rejected a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution — a setback to [...]
• It’s Official: the Super Congress has ‘Failed’
  The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction — more commonly known as “the Super Committee” — those special 12 authorized [...]
• Congress approves minibus spending bill, sends to Obama
  The Senate followed the lead of the House on Thursday, easily passing a 2012 “minibus” spending bill that also [...]
• Obama takes ‘Executive Actions’ for Vet jobs
  President Obama unveiled three executive actions Monday aimed at helping unemployed veterans secure private-sector employment, the White House’s [...]
• Ron Paul Slams Congress as debt exceeds US GDP
  Texas Congressman Ron Paul’s presidential campaign released the following statement regarding the news that the federal debt now exceeds the [...]
• US Republicans Call for $2 Trillion in Spending Cuts
  Republicans in the U.S. Congress are calling for $2.2 trillion in deficit-reduction cuts, including significant cuts to healthcare programs for [...]
• House GOP demands White House release Obama’s emails on Solyndra
  House Republicans are pushing forward with their request for all internal White House communications related to the now-bankrupt solar [...]
• Norquist: 9-9-9 puts 3 needles in taxpayer’s arm
  Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, hit the two leading Republican presidential candidates this morning – one for [...]
• Ron Paul announces ambitious ‘Plan to Restore America’
  LAKE JACKSON, Texas – The Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign announced the release of Dr. Paul’s “Plan to Restore America,” [...]
• Our Government Doesn’t Create Jobs, It Kills Them
  President Obama says government will have to build the nation out of the economic trough. “We’re the country that built the [...]
• E-mails show second loan planned for Solyndra
  Newly released e-mails show the Obama administration’s Energy Department was poised to give Solyndra a second taxpayer loan of [...]
• Nearly Half of U.S. Lives in Household Receiving Government Benefit
  Families were more dependent on government programs than ever last year. Nearly half, 48.5%, of the population lived in a household [...]
• Obama admin approves 2 solar loans worth $1 Billion
  Facing a Friday deadline, the Energy Department has approved two loan guarantees worth more than $1billion for solar energy [...]
• ‘Obamacare’ Closer to Supreme Court Review After Administration Declines to Appeal Latest Ruling
  The Obama administration has decided not to ask a federal appeals court in Atlanta for further review of a ruling [...]
• LightSquared, Obama, and Soros
  As Republican lawmakers begin to dig into the White House’s cozy relationship with a startup wireless company and the [...]
• Harry Reid: Tea Party would be to blame for government shutdown
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid warned Tuesday that the possibility of a government shutdown may loom in the future, [...]
• Obama announces debt plan built on taxes
  WASHINGTON — In a blunt rejoinder to congressional Republicans, President Barack Obama called for $1.5 trillion in new taxes [...]
• Jim DeMint says Obama using ‘Venture Socialism’
  Sen. Jim DeMint said Wednesday President Barack Obama’s policies are killing American jobs and the president is a practitioner [...]
• Unconstitutional ‘Super Congress’ ready themselves to get ‘serious’ about spending
  After two public meetings filled with introductory courtesies and little spark, members of the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction [...]
• Congress Pushes for $7 Billion in ‘Emergency Funds’ for FEMA
  Frustrated legislators from both parties called Tuesday for quick congressional action to get more money to the Federal [...]
• Obama, few GOP want a $447 billion package
  In a last-gasp attempt to jolt the economy and his reelection prospects, President Barack Obama on Thursday put forward a [...]
• $700M to Renovate and Build Health Care Centers
  One day after President Obama announced his jobs plan to a joint session of Congress, the Health and Human Services [...]
• Obama’s 300 Billion Dollar Jobs ‘Package’
  With the economy struggling and his reelection campaign gearing up, President Barack Obama plans to propose a jobs package worth [...]
• US Postal Service Near Default
  The United States Postal Service has long lived on the financial edge, but it has never been as close [...]
• US Drought Aid for Horn of Africa Tops $600 Million
  The United States says it will provide an additional $23 million to combat the drought in the Horn of [...]
• White House predicts trillion-dollar deficits for the next decade
  Ahead of President Obama’s major economic speech next week, the White House on Thursday released a gloomy picture of the [...]
• Obama & Transportation Spending
  He wants to continue it. Surprise. Obama pushed today to continue federal funds for transportation needs; he claims the transportation bill [...]
• What Came First: the Chicken or the Idiotic Idea to Fix its Price?
  A question that has been plaguing man for years…well actually this year. The chicken industry has found themselves in [...]
• House GOP revs up a repeal, reduce and rein-in agenda for the fall
  House Republicans are planning votes for almost every week this fall in an effort to repeal environmental and labor [...]
• Paul still critical of US involvement in Libya
  Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul said Sunday the apparent overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi’s regime in Libya does not justify [...]
• Washington Times: Rebellion by states could be hazardous to overhauling Obamacare
  Nearly a year and a half after President Obama signed his landmark health care overhaul into law, the growing rebellion [...]
• More Environmental Absurdity: Feds Give 4 States $5.8 Million to Protect Insect Habitat
  The U.S. Department of Interior announced this week that it is giving four states $5,802,180 in grants for projects [...]
• Social Security disability on verge of insolvency
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security’s disability [...]
• The California Depression Defined
  Some question why I continue to use the phrase, “California is in a Depression”? Here are some of the numbers you [...]
• Obama to deport illegals by ‘priority’
  Bowing to pressure from immigrant rights activists, the Obama administration said Thursday that it will halt deportation proceedings [...]
• More Leviathan?
  You can’t “starve the beast” — but there is no reason to feed it. In a classic “Saturday Night Live” skit, [...]
• Obama’s clean energy agenda meets reality
  President Obama’s “clean energy” agenda is rapidly becoming a political liability. Last week, the president delivered an upbeat speech in [...]
• U.S. Government Loaning $500M for Solar Power Projects (In India)
  The U.S. Export-Import Bank, an independent agency of the federal government, says that it has $500 million in loans [...]
• Obamacare Suffers 26-State Setback
  A federal court has agreed with 26 states – Obamacare is unconstitutional. In a strongly-worded decision late last week, the [...]
• No Hope or Change When it Comes to Fannie Mae
  The Washington Post is reporting that President Obama has assigned his staff with the task of designing a new [...]
• Seattle’s ‘green jobs’ program a bust
  Last year, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn announced the city had won a coveted $20 million federal grant to invest [...]
• Hil opposes budget cuts
  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Tuesday against budget cuts that could force an abrupt pullout of the US [...]
• Kerry, Two Liberal Dems for Deficit Reduction ‘Super Committee’
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has named the three Democratic senators who will sit on the Joint Select Committee [...]
• In the Red: a brief look at the Fed’s spending
  According to a Congressional Budget Office report1, “the federal budget deficit was about $1.1 trillion in the first 10 months [...]
• Over 45 million on food stamps
  NEW YORK — Nearly 15% of the U.S. population relied on food stamps in May, according to the United States [...]
• China: US has ‘Runaway Debt Addiction’
  America’s biggest creditor – China – is signaling deep unhappiness over this week’s deal to raise the US debt [...]
• Obama signs debt-limit increase, US borrowing to 100%
  After Barack Obama signed to raise the debt-ceiling the US Debt shot up to 100% at $238 Billion according to [...]
• Limbaugh: Don’t Be Fooled by the Debt Deal
  Whether the deal to reduce the government deficit passes or not, says radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, the American [...]
• House passes debt-deal, Senate next
  Today the House of Representatives voted on the debt-ceiling measure passing it 269-161: 95 Democrats voted for the deal, [...]
• 1,200 More Jobs Killed By Obamacare
  Remember when Nancy Pelosi said ObamaCare would create 400,000 new jobs almost immediately? Well, apparently Boston Scientific didn’t get the [...]
• Deficit ‘deal’ favored in Senate
  WASHINGTON — The White House and congressional leaders worked Monday to align lawmakers from both parties behind their formula [...]
• U.S. balance now less than Apple cash
  Steve Jobs is now more liquid than Uncle Sam. While it’s highly unlikely that President Barack Obama is looking to [...]
• Boehner, Reid both back at drawing board
  Senate Democratic leaders said Wednesday they, too, will have to go back and rewrite their debt-increase plan, meaning that [...]
• Taxes to Taliban: Tax Dollars Funneled to Terrorist Group via Transportation Contract
  A year-long military-led investigation has concluded that U.S. taxpayer money has been indirectly funneled to the Taliban under [...]
• Senate rejects House GOP budget-cutting plan
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner searched on Friday [...]
• Huge deficit-cutting bill sails through GOP House
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defying a veto threat, the Republican-controlled House voted Tuesday night to [...]
• Michelle O and Her 26 Servants
  “In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has [...]
• White House message on Cut, Cap, Balance Act: It’s Ryan on steroids
  Amid ongoing debt-limit negotiations, the Obama administration Monday sought to tie the Cut, Cap, Balance Act to the budget proposal [...]
• Bachmann adds Obamacare to spending limit pledge
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann signed a pledge Monday opposing any increase in the U.S. debt limit, [...]
• NIH, Tax Dollars Funding Research on Penis-size of Gays
  The National Institutes of Health (NIH) subsidized a study attempting to find out if a gay man’s penis [...]
• White House threatens to Veto ‘Cut, Cap, Balance’
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House weighed in with a veto threat Monday against a tea party-backed plan [...]
• Bernanke: Fed May Launch New Round of Stimulus
  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Wednesday that a new stimulus program is in the works that will [...]
• McConnell: Give Obama new powers on debt limit
  WASHINGTON (AP) — With compromise talks at a vituperative standstill, Senate Republicans unexpectedly offered [...]
• Obama’s Economists: ‘Stimulus’ Has Cost $278,000 per Job
  When the Obama administration releases a report on the Friday before a long weekend, it’s clearly not [...]
• Greeks in Crisis: Pass Tax Hikes and ‘Cuts’ to Receive International Bailout
  The Greek parliament on Wednesday approved a controversial package of tax hikes and spending cuts, helping clear [...]
• Cost of War: $3.7 trillion and counting
  NEW YORK – When President Barack Obama cited cost as a reason to bring troops home from [...]
• Economic Woes Mount Under Obama
  Two-and-a-half years of Obamanomics has crippled the U.S. economy with massive deficit spending, high gas prices, a crumbling [...]
• STEVE FRANK: Sacramento Gone Wild, Want Salary for Phony Budget
  It is hard to imagine, but a law, passed by the voters, is being enforced in California. Last November the [...]
• RON PAUL: Time to end Federal Reserve secrecy
  Among the facts that the Federal Reserve would rather you didn’t know is that at the height [...]
• Issa introduces bill to ‘prevent bailout’ of Postal Service
  Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the congressional oversight committee, introduced legislation on Thursday to significantly reform [...]
• $814 Billion Stimulus Failed, Democrats Ask For Another
  Democrats in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday called on Vice President Joe Biden to include new economic [...]
• Ron Paul Becomes First Presidential Candidate to Sign Debt Ceiling Pledge
  Ron Paul, an official candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, became the first presidential candidate to [...]
• Cut, Cap, and Balance National Spending
  Those are three words that need to be drilled into the minds of every Member of Congress. Those [...]
• 1.9 Million Fewer Americans Have Jobs Today Than When Obama Signed Stimulus
  Twenty-eight months after Congress passed President Obama’s signature economic stimulus law, and nearly one year after he declared the [...]
• National Collapse in Seven Years
  The federal government is spending more than it is taking in, and if we fail to rein in spending, [...]
• Obama Fundraiser Dinner ‘Sticker Shock,’ $38,500 Per Plate
  President Barack Obama’s supporters are being asked to really put their money where their mouths are: Tickets [...]