By Howard Rich – The Social Security debate is no different than the debate over any other government program – there are just a lot more zeroes involved. Of course the more zeroes, the less willing Washington politicians usually are to confront the problem – […]

By Kevin Mooney — Just before he left office in January, Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, a Republican, signed off on legislation that outlawed automatic payroll deductions for union dues. Although the on-going protests in Madison, Wisconsin and Trenton, N.J. have largely overshadowed Riley’s actions, he […]

The biggest monthly deficit of all time was reported this month: The federal government posted its largest monthly deficit in history in February at $223 billion, according to preliminary numbers the Congressional Budget Office released Monday morning. That figure tops last February’s record of $220.9 billion, and marks the 29th straight […]

By Robert Romano – Are we under economic attack? The author of a controversial 2009 Pentagon-contracted report, Kevin D. Freeman, seems to think so. Penned for the Department’s Irregular Warfare Support Program (IWSP), “ Economic Warfare: Risks and Responses ” outlines a “potential direct economic attack on the U.S. Treasury and U.S. […]

By Rebekah Rast – A “Plan B” is put in place as a backup, a form of insurance in case “Plan A” doesn’t work out. A Plan B is valuable when taking a cross-country road trip and you happen to hit road construction and can’t […]

By Bill Wilson – The Department of Labor’s unemployment report is dramatically at odds with Gallup and other non-partisan employment rate predicting surveys.  If the Labor Department is to be believed, the job market is improving rapidly with almost a million jobs created in the private sector with […]

There is nothing wrong with purchasing items made locally, as I have noted before . But there is something wrong with preaching to the rest of us the “Buy Local” mantra from the rear window of your foreign SUV: My fiance spotted the above “Buy Local Mobile” over the weekend […]

By Adam Bitely – Unless Congress approves legislation before March 5, many federal government operations will “shut down” or so we are led to believe. While the House has already approved a Continuing Resolution that includes $61.3 billion in spending cuts for the remainder of […]

By Robert Romano – The big-spending politicians in Washington cannot say they were not warned. As the financial system was brought to its knees in 2008, a torrent of government spending, borrowing, and money-printing was unleashed by Congress, the Treasury, and the Federal Reserve. First, Fannie Mae […]

Here are the names, via Rob Bluey at Big Government , of the 47 Congressmen that have supported every single spending cut during the Continuing Resolution debate last week in Congress: Amash, Bachmann, Broun, Campbell, Chabot, Chaffetz, Coffman, Duncan (TN), Duncan (SC), Flake, Fleming, Franks, Garrett, Gowdy, Graves (GA), Heller, […]