Found this educational resource today on the debt and deficit. Its a 3-part series from POLICYed.org. John Taylor discusses the major components of fiscal policy and their effect on the US economy. This series covers the complexities of the budget process, the debt and deficit, and the economy and the deficit. Main Series Page The [...]
Click on the Link below if you can stand it. WHEN WILL THE GOVERNMENT STOP ALL THE DEFICITS, LYING, INTERVENTIONS, AND NONSENSE, GET OUT OF THE WAY, AND LET THE ECONOMY ACTUALLY GROW? WHEN? 50 Economic Numbers From 2011 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
When I started teaching summer school this year, I told my students, most of whom had failed English 9, that I was there because I had failed. Specifically, I had failed to manage my money properly and was taking the majority of my summer school pay to pay off my last credit card. I paid [...]
A Morning Joe appearance from 27 May 2010 (it won't embed; click on the link below and watch the video): Morning Joe Senator Coburn was on Morning Joe this morning and spoke more truth. I went looking for it and found this oldie. I'll get today's interview up when it's available. Great stuff!
Please watch this. This is from last week. It is mostly about the debt / deficit, but he covers a lot of very pertinent topics. Two 15 minute pieces. Great rant! http://www.youtube.com/embed/3tVJ2gqqKWs http://www.youtube.com/embed/66LvgPHsUXY Then again today, on the Senate floor (video loads on the right side of the page): http://www.c-spanvideo.org//SenRe/start/14756/stop/16376
Watching TV while eating lunch today inspired this rant. Relevant ideas for your consideration: The budget "cuts" are compounded over ten years, but the debt ceiling raise is just until it gets used up again. So when they talk about "$2 Trillion in cuts and $2 Trillion in debt ceiling increase" what they mean is [...]
It is so nice to be proven right through no effort on one’s part. In my last post, “Second Thoughts on Earmarks,” I said that it was relatively easy know who is requesting earmarks, and voila! Three groups are making that information available to all. According to the Washington Examiner, three groups; Taxpayers for Common [...]
I’m a Redskins fan, so I know disappointment. Apparently, there are signals that the incoming Republican Congress is considering disappointing us regarding earmarks. All Republican senators and apparently a significant number of representatives signed a pledge before the election to forego asking for earmarks and/or eliminating the practice. (I could not find a list of [...]
http://imarketnews.com/node/17229 [emphasis added] ATHENS (MNI) - In a very rare move, the Greek government Wednesday invoked a national emergency provision to force striking fuel-tanker drivers go back to work. The government announced it would issue the civil mobilization order, normally used in times of war or national disaster, and send letters to each of [...]
The previous post was garbled somehow in the process of posting; apologies. ---- The White House web site now contains a link to the just-released OMB Mid Session Review (.pdf warning). It is filled with lots of facts, figures, and general good fun! Let’s jump right in! Guess what? It’s all Bush’s fault! In January [...]
Orwell would be proud. Orszag exit reveals deficit policy split (Financial Times free subscription required) Peter Orszag, Barack Obama’s budget director, resigned this week partly in frustration over his lack of success in persuading the Obama administration to tackle the fiscal deficit more aggressively, according to sources inside and outside the White House. Mr Orszag, [...]
