By Bill Wilson – All budget-cutting proposals currently being discussed will do nothing to eliminate the $1.3 trillion annual budget deficit any time soon. The Simpson-Bowles Commission does not foresee a balanced budget until 2037. House Republican proposals to reduce non-defense discretionary spending to FY 2008 levels […]

The latest video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation focuses on personal retirement accounts for Social Security. Dan Mitchell explains why these types of accounts are the best way to modernize Social Security.

By Robert Romano – Even if some of the most conservative estimates of participation in ObamaCare prove to be correct in the next 15 years, the legislation will still mean expenditures of about $102.8 billion every year once fully implemented, or about $1 trillion over ten years. […]

By Rick Manning – Expect the White House to begin talking up the brighter unemployment numbers that the Labor Department announced this morning.  What is likely to be unstated by the White House is the fact that this is the 19th straight month where the unemployment rate […]

By Bill Wilson – Not without spending cuts. That was House Speaker John Boehner’s response to Barack Obama’s request to Congress to increase the national debt ceiling from its current $14.294 trillion level. “The American people will not stand for such an increase unless it is accompanied by meaningful action by the President and Congress to cut spending and end the job-killing spending binge […]

By Kevin Mooney — With John Boehner (R-Ohio) now officially sworn in as the new House Speaker you might think that organized labor’s pursuit of special interest paybacks from the Obama Administration is dead in the water. You would be wrong. The stipulations and restrictions […]

By Howard Rich – While the extension of Bush-era tax cuts dominated headlines during the recently-concluded lame duck session of Congress, the coming year will bring with it a renewed focus on public debt — whether policymakers like it or not. A fiscal reckoning is […]

By William Warren – Today’s cartoon comments on how our soaring National Debt (now topping $14 trillion) and rising unemployment is torturing the nation.

By Adam Bitely – The establishment in Washington, D.C. rose up from the murky swamp to renew their call for expanded, out-of-control government spending via the New York Times editorial page on Christmas. In their typical fashion, they call for more “stimulus” to fix state budgets that refuse to cut even the […]

By Kevin Mooney — With the demise of “cap and trade” legislation, The Obama Administration has shrewdly pivoted in the direction of renewable mandates that emphasize solar and wind technology as a sop to green groups. Looking ahead to 2011, newly elected Republican lawmakers are […]