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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 once and [...]

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GOP Plans Attack

January 3, 2011

When the new Congress convenes, the GOP-led House is planning to move on several fronts. 1. They are going to try to repeal ObamaCare: The new Republican-controlled House plans to schedule a vote to repeal the sweeping health care overhaul before President Barack Obama delivers his annual State of the Union address late this month, [...]

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Economic Lunacy – Part III

December 28, 2010

We've heard the word 'radical' tossed around a lot by the mainstream media the last couple years, usually in the context of 'those radical Tea Partiers.' Mmm-hmm. Well, here's what is radical to me. From CNSNews.com: The federal government has accumulated more new debt–$3.22 trillion ($3,220,103,625,307.29)—during the tenure of the 111th Congress than it did [...]

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Economic Lunacy

December 23, 2010

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have…The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." – Thomas Jefferson When President Obama agreed to extend the Bush tax cuts by two years, left-wingers were very irate that taxes weren't going up (what kind of [...]

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Omnibus Bill: Congress Lame To The Bitter End

December 16, 2010

A recent Gallup poll showed Congress had only a 13% approval rating. I am shocked. 13% actually approve of Congress ??? Who are these people ??? Have they been living under rocks ??? This is a Congress that increased federal spending by trillions during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Tax revenue will [...]

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Deficit Commission Crashes And Burns

December 3, 2010

President Obama announced the formation of a deficit commission last february to address the federal government's addiction to spending tons more money than it takes in. This addiction has become so serious that we now have annual deficits over a trillion dollars and a federal debt of $14 trillion. The addiction is so serious that [...]

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The Preliminary Deficit Commission Report

November 11, 2010

We finally have a preliminary report from Obama's Deficit Commission, and…it doesn't eliminate the deficit. Well, shucks. What it does do is propose $4 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years (Obama's budgets are projected to add $9-10 trillion in debt over 10 years). The Deficit Commission is proposing $2 trillion in spending cuts, $1 [...]

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White House Doubletalk On Bush Tax Cuts

November 9, 2010

President Obama once said "words matter." However, when it comes to discussions of extending the Bush tax cuts, the White House seems to believe doubletalk matters. We keep hearing from the White House how extending the Bush tax cuts will "cost" the government so much money. Nonsense. Extending the Bush tax cuts won't "cost" the [...]

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Does The Government Create Jobs ?

October 19, 2010

There is an editorial in today's Akron Beacon Journal written by Mark K. Cassell, an associate professor of political science at Kent State University, titled 'Guess what? Government really does create jobs, millions of them'. Cassell takes issue with statements made by several Republicans that the government does not create jobs. Here's the professor's first [...]

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Dems To Cut Food Stamps Again ?

August 16, 2010

In order to pay for $26 billion in federal spending to avoid layoffs of state government workers and fund Medicaid, Democrats cut the food stamp program. As amazed as I was at this withdrawal of support from the poor to pay for the middle class (teachers, police officers, etc), I am even more amazed that [...]

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Bankrupting America: Real Or Fake ?

August 15, 2010

The Bankrupting America website has a fun new man-on-the-street video. The participants are asked if pork-barrel spending in the Obama stimulus package is real or fake. As ludicrous as so much of the stimulus spending is, it's very hard to tell real spending from fake spending. Let's play – Real Or Fake ?: Sure, some [...]

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Shazzam ! Responsibility Gone !

August 11, 2010

Liberals, after 8 years of complaining about President Bush running up the federal debt (as did I), and after 20+ years of complaining about President Reagan running up a relatively minor amount of debt (Obama ran up nearly as much debt in his first year as Reagan did in two full terms), now wholly embrace [...]

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