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• Growing Government and Slowing Growth — Obama’s Contradiction - 08 May 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Columns & Economy

  With unemployment still hovering near 8 percent, President Obama has made it a second term priority to increase economic growth. Yet the president’s own policies, which have lead to a significant growth in the size and cost of government, may make it difficult, if not impossible, for the United States to grow at the rate [...]

• How Serious Are Republicans? - 01 May 2013
  posted in Columns & Spending & Taxation

  Shortly after President Obama finally released his proposed budget a couple weeks ago, Representative Greg Walden of Oregon, the chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee, launched a stinging attack on the president not over the president’s call for more taxes and spending or because the president’s budget never balances and adds trillions to the national [...]

• I Survived Sequestration - 03 Apr 2013
  posted in Columns & Economy & Spending

  This week marks the one-month anniversary of one of the most terrifying events in American history: the sequester. So, with great trepidation, I have climbed out of my bunker to survey the devastation and send off this column. I was shocked to discover that somehow mankind had survived. Government spending had been cut, or at [...]

• Imagine tax revenues that exceed the cost of running the government - 11 Mar 2013
  posted in Columns & Spending & Taxation

  The sequester happened. Nothing happened—though we all understand there will be impacts down the road. But, it didn’t have to happen. “Sequester,” a word foreign to most of us, “is a term used to describe the practice of using mandatory spending cuts in the federal budget if the cost of running the government exceeds either [...]

• Treating the Symptoms - 07 Mar 2013
  posted in Columns & Spending

  As the sequester took effect last Friday (and the world as we know it began to end), President Obama and his spokesmen took to the airwaves to insist that they had a fairer and more balanced alternative. At his press conference on Friday, the president said, “I’ve put forward a plan that calls for serious [...]

• Obama pushes $50 billion stimulus plan as automatic budget cuts loom - 21 Feb 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Executive & Gov't Subsidy & Politics & Govt & Spending

  The White House on Wednesday pushed for tens of billions of dollars in stimulus funding for decaying roads and bridges, a request dismissed by Republicans as not serious amid the broader debate over spending cuts in Washington. The plan outlined by administration officials Wednesday calls for $50 billion in spending on highways, transit systems and [...]

• Entitlements, ObamaCare To Make Up 53% of Federal Spending - 05 Feb 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Politics & Govt & Spending & Welfarism

  According to projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO),  entitlements and ObamaCare spending will comprise 53 percent of all federal spending over the coming decade, totaling $24.9 trillion. In its updated Budget and Economic Outlook report released on Tuesday, the CBO projects that Social Security will account for $11.149 trillion in spending from 2014 to [...]

• Debt Ceiling and the 14th Amendment - 17 Jan 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Columns & Money & Spending

  In June of 2012, Nancy Pelosi proclaimed that the 14th Amendment makes the federal Debt Limit unconstitutional. According to the House Democrat Leader, Barack Obama could avoid the whole debt-ceiling showdown with Republicans by simply invoking the “obscure constitutional provision” in the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. According to Pelosi, the statutory borrowing [...]

• Obama gives himself, all presidents lifetime secret service protection - 14 Jan 2013
  posted in Spending

  Former presidents have to give up rides on Air Force One. But now they don’t have to give up being shadowed by the armed-and-earpieced bodyguards of the Secret Service. President Barack Obama on Thursday signed into a law a measure giving him, George W. Bush and future/former presidents and their spouses lifetime Secret Service protection, [...]

• Another Year for Limited Government? - 01 Jan 2013
  posted in Alerts & Big Gov & Civil Liberties & Economy

  Conservative American, Another year has come to a close, and new one has arrived. The question is: what will become of the next 365 days? Will we have ­more government or more liberty? Will we have ­more­ unlawful “legalism” or more adherence to the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land? Will we have more [...]