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10.13.2009 6:40 pm

What’s really frightening is the national debt

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Do you want to hear to something really frightening? For 2009 the US national debt stands at $12 Trillion, and the interest on that debt is currently $383 BILLION for the year, according to the Treasury Department Bureau of Public…
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08.10.2009 6:52 pm

44 makes 43 look like a cheapskate

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
When George W. Bush was president, I frequently complained to anyone who would listen that “he spent money like a Democrat.” I retrospect I was proven wrong by the American public who, in their infinite wisdom elected “one-term” Barack Obama.…
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07.13.2009 5:48 pm

The great trickle up: $11 trillion national debt

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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,…

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06.23.2009 5:31 pm

Why is everyone silent on Congress’ outrageous spending?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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06.17.2009 5:14 pm

I don’t think our children will enjoy the same freedom we’ve had

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I recently listened to a good portion of Obama’s Cairo speech along with some commentaries on it.  My comments are not actually for Liberal Democrats, because they are pure lemmings, and are essentially beyond all hope short of an act…

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05.18.2009 6:07 pm

Put Medicare, Social Security in general fund

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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…

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05.14.2009 6:26 pm

Driving aimlessly into a world of chronic torment

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Bank[er]s have been demonized as greedy bastards that took advantage of deregulation and unbridled capitalism. Automakers are scrambling to keep their heads attached (to no avail). The medical industry is at the center of a collision course between high costs…

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05.11.2009 6:42 pm

Two opinions, two problems

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Well your first effort is a continuation of effort to condem Republican legislators and let the Democrats slide by on an at least an “adequacy” comparison. The “stimulus spending” you allow the Democrats will hardly stimulate anything in this economy,…

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04.29.2009 5:07 pm

Iraq and bigger federal government both are out of line

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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