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• Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee – Entitlements Are ‘Earned’ - 12 Dec 2012
  posted in Videos

  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas): “I believe it should be pronounced here today, that the reform of the entitlements based upon slipshod, reckless, deliberations or should I say actions are a non-starter. There is no way, Mr. Speaker, that we should raise the eligibility age for Medicare, that we should not think carefully about how [...]

• Saving safety net from the left - 15 Nov 2012
  posted in Columns & Welfarism

  “The press is trying to paint me as trying to undo the New Deal. … I’m trying to undo the Great Society.” – Ronald Reagan, January 1982 diary entry Faced with an economic crisis during his first year in the Oval Office, Ronald Reagan was demagogued by the media, welfare-industry lobbyists, and Democratic leaders who [...]

• Price-Tag on Obama’s Welfare State: $1 Trillion and Counting - 18 Oct 2012
  posted in Alerts & Big Gov & Economy & waste & Welfarism

  Obama’s Big Government spent OVER ONE TRILLION dollars on welfare programs alone last year. This means that welfare programs got more money in FY 2011 than Social Security, basic defense, or any other government obligation, according to a newly released Congressional Research Report.

• Gibbs Confirms Existence of Obamacare Death Panels - 21 Aug 2012
  posted in Big Gov & Life & Politics & Govt & Videos & Welfarism

  Chris Wallace: “That is the argument that the Obama campaign makes – that the $716 billion is all in cuts to providers and insurance companies and it will have no effect on benefits or services to the beneficiaries. Let me ask my question. Medicare’s own actuary, own actuary of Medicare – not of the Romney [...]

• The Fiscal Collapse of California Has Begun - 18 Jul 2012
  posted in 2012 & California & Columns & Numbers & States

  Last week Fitch, the bond ratings service, downgraded the water bonds of Glendale and the facilities bonds of La Mirada.  Both on the basis of the respective cities being poorly run and the revenues base going down. Then the San Francisco Chronicle reported that eight cities, Fairfield, El Monte, Grover Beach, Arvin, Tehachapi, Lancaster, Riverbank [...]

• New American food-stamp plantation is a SNAP - 16 Jul 2012
  posted in Big Gov & Columns & Spending & waste & Welfarism

  The House Agriculture Committee has reported out its version of a new farm bill that will cut $16.5 billion over 10 years from funding of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), once known as food stamps. The cuts in the House bill exceed those in the Senate bill by $12 billion. Sixteen-and-a-half billion dollars over a [...]

• The Revolution Was: the Domestication of the Individual - 09 Jul 2012
  posted in Big Gov & CAA Special Series & Economy & Garet Garrett & Voices

  Garet Garrett (1878-1954) is a voice largely forgotten or altogether unknown today. Born in Illinois, by the age of twenty-five he was a staff writer for the New York Sun. Thirteen years later he was an executive editor at the New York Tribune, after having been a financial writer for the New York Times. After [...]

• Obama signs reauthorization of Export-Import Bank despite earlier opposition - 30 May 2012
  posted in Big Business & Big Gov & Economy & Executive & Gov't Subsidy & Politics & Govt & Stimulus

  President Obama on Wednesday signed a reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank that would raise its lending authority 40 percent to $140 billion by 2014 and pressed Congress to pass a list of other top White House priorities aimed at creating jobs and boosting the economy. Enough Republicans came to the 78-year-old bank’s aid to move [...]

• The Revolution Was: To Seize Economic Power - 28 May 2012
  posted in Big Gov & CAA Special Series & Civil Liberties & Economy & Garet Garrett & Politics & Govt & Voices

  Garet Garrett (1878-1954) is a voice largely forgotten or altogether unknown today. Born in Illinois, by the age of twenty-five he was a staff writer for the New York Sun. Thirteen years later he was an executive editor at the New York Tribune, after having been a financial writer for the New York Times. After [...]

• Free-market Economist Dissects Obama’s ‘Life of Julia’ Slideshow - 07 May 2012
  posted in Big Gov & Business & Civil Liberties & Economy & Humor & Medicine & Politics & Govt & Taxation & Videos & Welfarism

  Obama’s recent I-Can’t-Make-It-Without-Government-Welfare-And-Assistance slide-show “The Life of Julia” — see here: http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia The verdict: We’re hopeless without Big Government programs that take care of us from cradle to grave. But this can’t be the case, can it? Are we that far gone without Obama and Big Government Aid? This is what the free-market economist Peter [...]