By Rick Manning – Our nation is another day closer to defaulting on our national debt and the Senate continues to be absent without leave in the debate. It makes one wonder whether anyone has told Harry Reid that he was re-elected by the voters of Nevada […]
By Rick Manning – The Center for American Progress (CAP) has pushed for a lot of loony ideas, but that is what one would expect from a Soros-funded organization tasked with providing intellectual cover for a brain-dead administration. However, CAP’s latest article, “ An increased minimum wage is good public policy even during tough times, ” could easily be […]
By Rick Manning – Americans are dissatisfied and frustrated with their government because our elected representatives seem unwilling to do what is in the obvious best interest of the nation. In Washington, D.C. last week we saw the same tired dance that has led us to this […]
By Rick Manning – This Friday will mark the release of the May unemployment report. A report that will reflect the last effects of the Obama trillion-dollar stimulus and of the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing (QE2). The report is likely to show that job creation is mediocre […]
By Rick Manning – It’s official. There is a housing crisis in America. The New York Times has weighed in with their prescription for the housing woes plaguing our nation’s economy. Not surprisingly, their solution is more government intervention, billions more on government loan modification programs that are proven failures 40 […]
By Rick Manning – Lost in the incredibly bungled presidential campaign launch of former Speaker Newt Gingrich and the equally bad week of the now former International Monetary Fund Chairman was the bad week suffered by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). Reid, who graduated from Utah […]
By Rick Manning – The Obama economy continues to drift downward as our nation’s jobless rate is back at 9 percent with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reporting that the number of unemployed persons increased by 205,000 in April. Yet, incredibly the BLS writes in their May 6, 2011 release […]
By Rick Manning – When you filed your taxes this year, did you get a refund larger than the amount the government withheld from your paycheck? If you were one of the 23.1 million tax filers who benefitted from federal government share-the-wealth schemes like the Earned Income […]
By Rick Manning – The incentive to spend more and more money is at the heart of our government’s budget crunch as millions of dollars are spent simply because there is no incentive not to spend it all, even if t isn’t needed. U.S. Congressman Denny Rehberg […]
By Rick Manning – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is going to the mats to promote an attorney who would be the plaintiff’s bars dream, to Federal District Court for the District of Rhode Island. Reid upped the ante by filing for cloture in the Senate forcing […]
