Mar 14 2010

The Democrats Must Be Stopped

There are several reasons why some people still don’t understand the fiscal disaster that Barack Obama and the Democratic Party are visiting on our nation. The first is the sheer enormity of the numbers involved. It is hard for anyone really to comprehend the difference between “billion” and “trillion.” The second is [...]

Mar 10 2010

Bending the Cost Curve — With a Crowbar

Having failed to excite the majority of American about covering
30 million of their fellow citizens at the expense of
jeopardizing their own medical care, the Obama Administration has
settled on an even more implausible reform argument — extending
these benefits will lower medical
costs.

The amen [...]

Mar 8 2010

CBO: Obama Budget Takes Debt to $20 Trillion By 2020

Philip Klein makes an understatement: The Congressional Budget Office has released its assessment of President Obama’s budget, and the results aren’t pretty.
And given that these projections have gotten so much worse in just the past year, the knowledge that we’ve got three more years under Barack Obama’s devastating “transformation” agenda leaves little doubt that [...]

Mar 5 2010

$1 Trillion

That’s the amount of average annual deficit that the CBO now says President Barack Obama’s budget will lead to for the next decade.”
And that’s not counting Medicare’s $38 trillion unfunded liability and before the nation is soaked with the trillions Obamacare could actually end up costing $2.3 trillion over the same period.
All I can say [...]

Mar 5 2010

Amending the Spending

This week, a trio of fiscally conservative House Republicans
released a document painting a dire picture of the country’s
finances. “Over the last five years,” they write, “federal
spending has increased from nearly 20 percent as a share of the
economy to 24.7 percent as the government’s expenditures
[...]

Feb 27 2010

Charlie Crist: Don’t Scrap Obamacare … But I Can’t Name One Part Worth Keeping

From the Palm Beach Post, this is classic Charlie Crist:
Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate, told The Palm Beach Post editorial board on Friday that, unlike many Republicans in Washington, he didn’t think President Obama should scrap his health care reform proposal:
“There may be parts of it that you don’t have to scrap. [...]

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