Rep. Tom McClintock,FloydReports.com Imagine a family that earns $50,000 a year but is spending more than $88,000 with a credit card balance of $330,000. The discussions around the kitchen table are likely to be a little tense. Proportionally,that’s where Washington’s finances are today,and that’s why the national discussion is a little [...] Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson,FloydReports.com Being a congressman can be a great job. It can be attractive for someone who relishes the ersatz virtue of playing Santa Claus with other people’s money,who finds a year-round routine of fund-raising social events enjoyable,and who covets receiving one of the most generous pensions on the [...] John Goodman,FloydReports.com While charges and counter-charges about Medicare are flying back and forth in Washington,hardly anyone seems to have noticed that Medicare’s financial problems have already been solved. They were solved by the health reform bill enacted last year,what some people call ObamaCare. So why isn’t this front page news? Why [...] Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson,FloydReports.com The trustees of the Medicare system recently reported that the program will go broke in the year 2024—five years sooner than was projected just last year. The millions of Americans who have been counting on Medicare to be a reliable,stable guarantor of affordable health care in their senior [...] WJBK,Fox News Detroit A Michigan man has continued to accept food aid from the state even though he won big in a state lottery game and said he told officials about it. Leroy Fick won the $2 million jackpot in the “Make Me Rich!”contest in June. Despite receiving about [...] Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com As the nation digests Barack Obama’s plan to ride a tax hike to re-election,one phrase from yesterday’s budget speech confirms what this author has long stated:the president is fundamentally an anti-American Messianic figure who believes he was sent to save our nation from itself and its Founders. Speaking a [...] Susan Stamper Brown If we really care about our children’s future,now is the time for Americans on both sides of the aisle to cast aside their political aspirations long enough to carry on an adult conversation about debt reduction and spending cuts. Now is also the time to remind ourselves why Washington is [...] Susan Stamper Brown,FloydReports.com An apropos saying,“Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends” was recently tweeted across the cyber world of Twitter,but apparently the message did not connect with entitlement-loving Democratic Party Progressives currently unhinged over the recent proposal to extend Bush tax cuts. In a rare moment of [...] Floyd and Mary Beth Brow,FloydReports.com The lame duck Congress and President Obama are retarding the recovery. It’s tough medicine to medicine to swallow —ending unemployment benefits for people who have been out of work for three years —but it is necessary if we want recovery. The official U.S. unemployment rate [...] Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com (Chart compiled by The Heritage Foundation) If anyone had any doubt the United States is facing a full-scale debt crisis,a look at Washington’s out-of-control spending should wake him up. The bottom line is even if America axed every discretionary program in the budget,we would still be in debt. We [...] By Bill Frezza,Real Clear Politics The Dawn of the New Age of debt Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat,after a tumultuous year of political theater,the Age of Obama has dawned. With legislative success however tarnished by rancor and dissent,the hopes and dreams of generations [...] | |
