You’re busy. So busy you barely have time to read these words. So why should you care about the U.S. debt? Does it affect your life? Unfortunately, high government debt is having more of an impact on each of us than we realize. Heritage’s Romina Boccia explains that high levels of federal debt are linked […]
With current funding for government operations scheduled to run out March 27, the House is beginning work on another Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government through the rest of the fiscal year. As they do this, they must take firm steps toward their commitment to balance the budget in 10 years. That means delivering […]
President Obama’s refusal to balance the budget will soon leave Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security bankrupt. That’s according to Representative Tom Price (R-GA), who spoke at The Bloggers Briefing yesterday and sat down for an interview with Heritage’s Jackie Anderson. Price and other congressional leaders have been advocating a strategy to balance the budget and save […]
New Capabilities for the Military? During his speech tonight, President Obama, in a brief passage, pledged to provide the military with new capabilities. This pledge was brief because it included no specifics about the kinds of new capabilities he has in mind. This is not surprising for two reasons. The first reason can be found […]
Is our republic coming to an unceremonious end? History may not be on America’s side. Lawrence Lessig’s Republic Lost documents the corrosive effect of money on our political process. Lessig persuasively makes the case that we are witnessing the loss of our republican form of government, as politicians increasingly represent those who fund their campaigns, rather than […]
As reported in the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (1.10.13) a study by the Institute of Medicine found that U.S health care woes are much worse than we thought. In fact, over the last 30 years, as compared to other Western countries, USA ranked last in nearly every health indicator. You read […]
STATE OBAMACARE STRATEGY IN PERIL Urgent Response Needed to Ohio Gov. Kasich’s Political Cowardice, Selfishness URGENT: Ohio Gov. John Kasich – who was propelled to victory in 2010 as a Tea Party conservative – has sold out his State AND us for 30 pieces of silver to the ObamaCare bandwagon, agreeing on Monday to expand […]
The U.S. Postal Service plans to end Saturday mail delivery as soon as August to cut financial losses, a change Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said it can make without Congress’s approval if necessary. The service, which lost $15.9 billion last year, said it would continue six-day deliveries of packages, deliver mail to post-office boxes and keep open […]
President Obama’s health care law will force over 7 million people out of their job-based insurance coverage, nearly twice the previous estimate, according to the latest estimates from the Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday. CBO said that this year’s tax cuts have changed the incentives for businesses and made it less attractive to pay for […]
Would you like a raise? For some workers, cronyism prevents receiving raises in pay. In early 2011, a Giant Eagle supermarket in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, wanted to give wage increases and higher starting wages to 25 employees. But a union wouldn’t let it do so. Why would a union object to workers receiving higher wages? Because […]
