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The Government's Dishonest Accounting Trick

June 9, 2011

When the federal deficit was reported as $1.5 trillion last year, that was real bad news. This year's $1.6 trillion deficit is also real bad. But the truth is far worse. That $1.5 trillion figure consisted of what the government spent in excess of the revenue it took in, but it does not include any [...]

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Why We Have To Address Entitlements

June 1, 2011

Here's why, by the numbers. Total federal revenue for FY2011 will be about $2.2 trillion. Here are the three biggest federal expenditures YTD: Medicare/Medicaid – $815.1 billion Defense including wars – $698.5 billion Social Security – $711.8 billion Medicare, Defense, and Social Security expenditures YTD comes to $ 2.225 trillion. These three areas are consuming [...]

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Looking For A Leader

April 26, 2011

Even though I write about politics, I hate politics. More precisely, I hate most politicians. I have never seen a bigger bunch of lying thieves in my life than the people we elect to run our country. It would take a hearty dose of sodium pentathol to get most of them to tell the truth. [...]

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The Tax Fallacy

April 12, 2011

I don't know a softer way to put this. When it comes to federal spending and revenue, left-wingers are shameless liars, or morons. The standard talking point from the left goes like this – the Bush tax cuts caused huge deficits, and are the major reason we have a $1.6 trillion deficit today. In a [...]

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In The Midnight Hour

April 8, 2011

We're over six months into FY2011 (the government's fiscal year runs from October 1-September 30), and Congress has still not passed a budget for FY2011. There will be a government shutdown at midnight unless Congress can pass a budget or another temporary continuing resolution (CR) today. First, I must say…Heckuva job, Congress. Thanks for NOT [...]

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How's That Hopey-Changey Thing Workin' Out For Ya ?

March 16, 2011

Thought I'd start with a Sarah Palin quote to get Democrat hearts pumping a bit faster. Consider it cardio for liberals. Quote Of The Month: "In Washington, D.C., America is witnessing one of the grossest spectacles of fiscal incompetency, coupled with denial, ever perpetrated by a political party. And that's the Republicans. Democrats have made [...]

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I Can't Take It Anymore….The Cowboy Poetry Festival

March 9, 2011

The federal government's $223 billion budget deficit for February is the largest one-month budgetary shortfall in the history of the country. The annual deficit is $1.6 trillion. The federal government is over $14 trillion in debt. Federal spending has doubled over the last decade. Our government is borrowing 40 cents of every dollar it spends. [...]

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Send The Democrats To Rehab

February 27, 2011

In 2000, federal spending was $1.789 trillion. Enter George W. Bush as President. In 2008, federal spending was $2.983 billion. Over 8 years, federal spending increased by $1.2 trillion PER YEAR on Bush's watch. That's a LOT of additional spending. An enormous spending increase. People try to tell me Bush was a conservative, but I [...]

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A Failure Of Leadership

February 15, 2011

Our great leaders address the pressing problems of their times. That's what George Washington did. So did Abraham Lincoln, FDR, Truman, JFK, and Reagan. Taking on their responsibilities is what made these leaders great. The most pressing problem of our time is DEBT. Some would say it's jobs, but that's only in the short term. [...]

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Adventures In Denial: $1.5 Trillion Deficit

January 27, 2011

The Congresssional Budget Office projects the 2011 federal deficit will be $1.5 trillion. Funny how this came out the day AFTER the State Of The Union address. Purely coincidental, I'm sure. The Washington Post knows where to place the blame: The still-fragile economy and fresh tax cuts approved by Congress last month will drive the [...]

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The Other State Of The Union

January 26, 2011

President Obama gave his State Of The Union speech last night. In this speech, we met a new Obama, a more centrist sounding Obama. I found myself agreeing with most of what he said, with a few glaring exceptions. I also was thinking about what a different tone this new Obama has taken when compared [...]

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Friday Political Report

January 21, 2011

There's so much happening on the political front that I couldn't settle on which issue to write about today. So instead, I'll write about all of them. — Birther News: Hawaiian governor Neil Abercrombie said he wanted to put to rest all the craziness surrounding President Obama's birth certificate, so he set out to prove [...]

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