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,…

There are those who say the tea parties have no central message. True, creation of a single central message is made more difficult when so many things are getting out of whack, all at the same time.

But  it is a…

Perhaps the most misleading words about our economy are “taxpayers’ money.” Let’s keep two facts in mind:
1. The federal government is not a tax payer; it is a tax receiver. So when the government spends money it is not spending…

You know how they say that if you don’t study history, you are bound to repeat it?
Well, here we go again.

Things I have been hearing on the radio and television sound eerily familiar. This week I have heard over…

So Barack Obama showed his religious audience he was comfortable talking their talk suggesting that the government could have a hand in helping church-based social services (Post-Dispatch, July 2, 2008.) The only thing I have to say about that is to the church…

What the writer of “Getting by, in a Pinch” failed to mention in the calculus of working class Americans who are just getting by is the single word, taxes. While the median household income may be about $50,000 per year,…