This is in answer to Another Black Hole, a letter from Richard Williamson in the September 18th paper. If Mr. Williamson wrote a letter like this when the War on Iraq was started, then I understand his concern. However, we spent…
We have all heard the news that the national debt now stands at $11 trillion . Eleven trillion dollars is such a large number that it is difficult to grasp. The national debt is the amount owed by the government,…
I am amazed at the silence regarding Congress’ outrageous spending and fiscal management given their micromanagement of the private sector through executive compensation, taking over the auto industry, etc. How can the story on Congress voting an 8% increase in…
| In the discussion about universal health care affordability, one question seems never to be asked or answered: Which hurts worse, large federal deficits or millions of people suffering with inadequate health care?
Most people who don’t have health insurance… |
| Newspapers last week published yet another piece in which they warn that certain federal agencies “are creeping closer to going broke.”
There are 400+ federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, Congress, the Supreme Court and the White House. To help… |
Bill Davis wrote a letter to the editor “using a crisis” critical of Charles Krautham men’s column “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” The jest of the other Bill Davis’s letter was Bush used the 9-11 crisis to…
We have all heard the news that the national debt now stands at $11 trillion . Eleven trillion dollars is such a large number that it is difficult to grasp. The national debt is the amount owed by the government,…
We are hearing a lot lately about how terrible the last 8 years have been for the US economy. I would like to present one fact. According to usgovernmentrevenue.com the treasury collected $2.154 trillion dollars in 2005, $2.407 trillion in…
When President Bill Clinton’s term ended, he left a budget surplus. Everyone cheered.
But during the war years of President George W. Bush, the surplus soon evaporated. We ran up a 700 billion price tag for a war of choice in…
It’s hard sometimes to take seriously the Republicans’ outrage over everything President Obama says and does. Their continual howls over deficits is funny enough, in light of their own wild spending.
But more than that, every single issue on which they…
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