Obama Doing Labor’s Bidding
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 18th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
The Revenue Limits of Tax and Spend
David Ranson, Wall Street Journal
The Greeks have always been trendsetters for the West. Washington has repudiated two centuries of U.S. fiscal prudence as prescribed by the Founding Fathers in favor of the modern Greek model of debt, dependency, devaluation and default. Prospects for restraining runaway U.S. debt are even poorer than they appear.U.S. fiscal policy has been going in the wrong direction for a very long time. But this year the U.S. government declined to lay out any plan to balance its budget ever again. Based on President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates a…
Primaries Gauge Voters’ Frustration
Kiely & Fritze, USA Today
Cruising the struggling rural communities of eastern Arkansas, Earnestine Weaver, the local justice of the peace and longtime Democratic committeewoman, senses a tide building in advance of Tuesday's primary.”People are saying: 'Let's make a change. Let's get rid of all the people in office now,' ” she says.In state after state, as campaigns ramp up for this year's congressional elections, voter anger threatens to capsize the careers of lawmakers previously considered untouchable. Party affiliation is not the issue.
