Tag Archives: National Debt

Compromise?

Posted on July 31st, 2011

“I can pretty confidently say this debt-ceiling increase will avoid default” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Are the Republicans about to cave in? For real-time updates on the Debt Ceiling visit WSJ’s Live Blog Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Tell a friend

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The Obama Administration Welfare Binge

Posted on June 10th, 2011

Obama Will Spend More on Welfare in the Next Year Than Bush Spent on Entire Iraq War, Study Reveals (CNSNews.com -Fred Lucas-) – As a candidate for president, Barack Obama decried the financial toll that the Iraq war was taking on the economy, but Obama’s proposed spending on welfare through 2010 will eclipse Bush’s war [...]

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Will Moody’s Rank AAA-merica as Ca-merica?

Posted on June 4th, 2011

Moody’s Investors Service warned that it might review the government’s Aaa debt rating for a possible downgrade as early as next month if there is no progress toward a deal in Washington to increase the $14.294 trillion federal borrowing limit and cut deficits. A short time after that announcement Thursday, a meeting at the White [...]

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There’s No Avoiding ‘Repeal and Replace’

Posted on October 20th, 2010

It’s essential for limited government. By: James Capretta   NRO Scores of House and Senate candidates are campaigning on a platform of reestablishing limited government. There could hardly be a more encouraging development for our republic. After decades of legislators’ piling countless new programs on top of old ones, and two years of the most intense [...]

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The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown

Posted on August 13th, 2010

By Nile Gardiner The last few weeks have been a nightmare for President Obama, in a summer of discontent in the United States which has deeply unsettled the ruling liberal elites, so much so that even the Left has begun to turn against the White House. While the anti-establishment Tea Party movement has gained significant [...]

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The VAT Cometh

Posted on March 26th, 2010

By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER This massive new entitlement needs a cash cow. As the night follows the day, the VAT cometh. With the passage of Obamacare, which created a vast new middle-class entitlement, a national sales tax of the kind almost universal in Europe is inevitable. We are now $8 trillion in debt. The Congressional Budget [...]

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