Congress Makes History
by Dr. Paul Kengor
I honestly didn’t think I’d ever live to see it.
Fiscally responsible force. I like the sound of that.
Obama’s and Reagan’s policies for economic recovery were completely different.
A number you never see on the nightly news.
The Confederation Congress could not tax, but it could borrow.
Real government spending has increased almost twice as fast as government revenue.
The main reason for most deficits: excessive spending.
FDR, for the record, despised Andrew Mellon.
The Sequesters John and Jane have been married for eight years. They aren’t Hollywood Stars, professional athletes, or nightly-news anchors, so they’re not exactly multi-millionaires. John does have a good job, though. His employer’s business in recent years has been growing, and John has gotten an eight- or ten-percent raise every year for […]
Paul Ryan says it’s going to happen, the sequestration, that is. One can hardly imagine any alternative scenario, in which Democrats and Republicans work it all out, and come out singing Kumbaya with a deal to avert the workings of the automatic cuts, share and share alike, to domestic and defense discretionary spending. Certainly, it would be better a) […]
As Congress struggles to balance our out-of-control federal budget, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has officially put its oar into the debate. In an open letter to congress, the USCCB (along with Catholic Relief Services), told federal budget-crunchers exactly what programs they thought should be sliced from the budget. And, (surprise surprise) […]