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A Conservative Merry Christmas for Young Voters

Young people new to politics find it baffling how the conservatives have drawn a line in the sand over tax cuts for the wealthy. How can anybody possibly justify a stand like that? It’s political […]

The Debt

Our debt right now is about $16.5 trillion. Projections of the current budget and extrapolations of the administration’s programs bring the debt to $20 trillion in five years. This assumes the GDP remains at 4% […]

Congress Wants Seniors to Eat Cat Food

There’s an insidious new “fix” to Social Security making the rounds in Congress called “chained CPI.” It’s been a popular option with both parties in Congress lately as they hash out ways to lower the […]

Raise My Taxes to Pay for the $1 Trillion Welfare State

The federal government and the states pay a combined $1 trillion for welfare recipients. The average is $20,000 per person and over $30,000 per family. This comes from hundreds of programs, everything from food stamps […]

The Closing of the Democrat Mind

It has to be intuitively obvious to the most casual observer that the U.S. has a bad debt problem. I know people are used to living in debt – mortgages, car payments, credit card payments, […]