Tag Archives: Budget Deficit

Keith Hughes: The Balanced Budget Amendment Explained

Source:The New Democrat On its face I guess the Balanced Budget Amendment sounds like a good thing. The problems are several and not just the impracticality of it. That it would take two-thirds of both the House and Senate to … Continue reading

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Liberty Pen:John Stossel: U.S. Senator Rand Paul on Cutting Government

Source:The New Democrat  Just from this clip in this video Senator Rand Paul as President Rand Paul, if that ever happens, would cut about one-hundred-forty-six-billion-dollars a year. Which to anyone who lets says makes sixty-thousand-dollars a year and has maybe … Continue reading

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USA Today: Senator Tom Coburn: ‘A Deficit of Debt Discussion’

Source:USA Today– former U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (Republican, Oklahoma) 2005-13. You can also see this post at FRS FreeState, on WordPress. “The 2016 presidential race is beginning in earnest with new candidates entering the crowded field weekly. The Republican Party boasts … Continue reading

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Bill Whittle: ‘Defense Debacle: Should Conservatives Cut Military Spending?’

I think its obvious the United States defense budget should be and has been on the table when it comes to deficit reduction. And it has been since the 2011 Budget Control Act, that was negotiated between Congress and the … Continue reading

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Commentary Magazine: Jonathan S. Tobin: The Greek Crisis Echoed in Democrat’s Entitlement Stance

Source:Commentary Magazine To state the obvious, America is not Greece. Greece, a country of eleven-million people, with an economy somewhere around two-hundred-fifty-million people and yet their central government spends about half of its GDP. Most of that having something to … Continue reading

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Real Time With Bill Maher: Bill Maher as a Teabagger

Source:Real Time With Bill Maher Bill Maher had me almost all the way, until he put the entire focus on the defense budget, which represents about twenty-percent of the budget. Gutting defense and corporate welfare alone won’t eliminate the debt … Continue reading

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FORA-TV: PJ O’Rourke- ‘Conservatives and Fiscal Responsibility’

Source:FORA-TV– Political satirist P.J. O’Rourke, at the National Press Club in Washington, talking about the lack of fiscal responsibility in the Republican Party. Source:Real Life Journal  “Political satirist P.J. O’Rourke criticizes the fiscal irresponsibility of recent conservative legislators. He says … Continue reading

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The New Republic: Danny Vinik: President Obama’s Promise to Not Raise Taxes on the Middle Class Makes Governing Harder

Source:The New Democrat  I’m just going to be real here and say that Socialists have this belief that if government especially the federal government or central government (depending on the country) is not doing something or running something that is … Continue reading

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The Washington Post: Robert J. Samuelson: The Debate That Wasn’t

Source:The New Democrat  I agree with Robert Samuelson that Washington really hasn’t been debating the size of government. But avoiding tough decisions and when they find things they actually want to do that is both parties they either borrow the … Continue reading

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The Globalist: Bill Hunphrey: The Problem With Billionaires

The Globalist: Opinion: Bill Humphrey: The Problem With Billionaires The New Democrat This idea that what America needs to do is just tax the hell out of millionaires and billionaires and use that money to spend more on War on … Continue reading

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