President Obama likes to boast about how the budget deficit has shrunk over the past three years; of course he doesn’t mention that it is primarily due to sequestration imposed by Congress in the Budget Control Act of 2011. Now, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Now that the House and Senate have moved to put the kibosh on sequester furloughs of air traffic controllers and other transportation security employees, what is the genesis of a 10 percent reduction in labor hours for a two percent […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Two months late and in violation of federal law the Obama administration released its long awaited budget. Not surprisingly the release drew strong rebuke from Republicans who described it as a “reheated” plan that simply reiterates past proposed tax hikes […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It appears Obama management of the economy is one more big failure. U.S. consumer confidence plunged in January to its lowest level in more than a year. Could it possibly be the sudden shock employees received when they saw their […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Without the first shot being fired GOP members of the House are already waving the white flag of surrender. The House will vote this week to raise the nation’s $16.4 trillion debt ceiling for three months while denying pay for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Conservatives are not happy with Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH.) What appears to be a complete surrender on the issue of tax rate increases has lit a fire under numerous conservative groups and won’t help Mr. Boehner in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
President Obama has been traveling around the country telling the GOP to show their hand; and now they have. Monday the House Republicans released their own proposal to avoid sending the nation over the “fiscal cliff” including $4.6 trillion in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

California is an interesting place. The state’s government puts in place outrageous public union pensions that it cannot possibly fund. The state raises property taxes to fund its runaway spending only to have to roll back the taxes sinking deeper […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Amidst the hullabaloo over Obamacare, the contempt charges against Attorney General Holder, staggering news came out of the northern California city of Stockton which became the largest city to file for bankruptcy in U.S. history on Thursday. After years of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…