Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson,FloydReports.com Some have called August 2 “Financial D-Day.” That is the date,according to Treasury Secretary Geithner,by which either Congress raises the debt ceiling or some government disbursements will cease. Multiple proposals have been floated for budgetary reforms to be made in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. A [...] Ben Johnson,The White House Watch The scare and intimidation tactics the president has employed during the debt ceiling debate have grown so outrageous that two experts on the Social Security system are imploring Barack Obama,“Mr. President,please stop needlessly scaring the millions who rely on Social Security benefits.” Obama warned in his [...] Floyd and Mary Beth Brown,FloydReports.com The media frenzy over Republican Senators and Barack Obama making nice over the debt ceiling crisis exposes for all Americans to see the extent to which both parties are aligned with Wall Street interests,and against the interests of Main Street and small business. The subject of this [...] Susan Stamper Brown,FloydReports.com If indeed the road to Hell is paved with good intentions,President Obama and his cohorts in the Democratic Party must be feeling the heat on their backsides after the House voted to pass the Cut,Cap and Balance (CCB) plan. In response to the GOP’s proposal,it should come [...] USA Prepares hosts Mark Wright and Vincent Finelli call upon the US Congress to consider filing articles of impeachment against President Obama for fiscal terrorist threats toward the American people. Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson,FloydReports.com We older Americans have saddled our youth with a mind-boggling public debt—over $20 trillion already spent ($14.3 trillion of “official” national debt plus various off-budget expenditures,according to the U.S. Treasury);trillions more of projected deficit-spending over the coming decade;and tens of trillions of dollars of [...] 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 [...] David Limbaugh,Human Events What kind of surreal world are we inhabiting where the political party that is trying to address our debt problem is on the defensive at the hands of the reckless party that chooses to mock,demagogue and delay? The national dialogue,at least the one being choreographed by Democrats and [...] Dr. John A. Sparks President Obama is now openly proposing tax increases on at least two important fronts as part of his “solution” to the growing debt crisis. The president’s favorite approach is to talk about the “wealthiest Americans.” In his speech on April 13,he proclaimed that he will do away with the [...] Michael Reagan,FloydReports.com There is a struggle now being waged in Washington,the outcome of which will determine whether the nation’s economy will grow or continue to falter. The main combatants are President Barack Obama and a thoughtful member of Congress from the nation’s heartland,Rep. Paul Ryan,R-WI. One of them,the president,[...] 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 [...] Floyd and Mary Beth Brown,FloydReports.com House Speaker John Boehner is falling for a trap,hook,line,and sinker —and the Republican presidential nominee will reap the results of Boehner’s folly. The single biggest issue facing America is the inability of the federal government to pay its bills. The deficit for the month [...] Jack Cashill,WorldNetDaily While out promoting my new book,“Deconstructing Obama,”I have been asked a few times about Obama’s mysterious Social Security number. Not knowing enough to speak authoritatively,I chose to swim upstream through the data flood and head for the source. Here I found a no-nonsense licensed investigator from Ohio named [...] Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson,FloydReports.com Brace yourself. This isn’t going to be pleasant. If you’re in a bad mood or get easily upset,you may wish to pass on reading this article. The country is in even worse shape economically than we thought. We awoke on Feb. 14 to find that this year’s federal [...] David Malpass,The Washington Times This spring’s debate on increasing the debt limit probably will be the most important opportunity in this Congress for fiscal conservatives to have an impact –to force an upheaval in Washington’s tax-and-spend culture that will slow out-of-control spending. The debt-limit issue is not whether you want more national [...] By Kevin “Coach” Collins,The Collins Report The liars in Washington are scrambling to figure out how to spin perhaps the worst news yet for millions of Americans:These socialist thugs have actually finally killed Social Security and Medicare. Each year sometime in March or April the Social Security [...] By PETER FERRARA,Investors.com Every year,the Annual Report of the Social Security Board of Trustees comes out between mid-April and mid-May. Now it’s July,and there’s no sign of this year’s report. What is the Obama administration hiding? The annual report includes detailed information about Social [...] By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER,Associate Press Obama has target bebefits to Seniors to balance budgets Millions of older people face shrinking Social Security checks next year,the first time in a generation that payments would not rise. The trustees who oversee Social Security are projecting there won’t be a cost of [...] Donald Luskin,PoorandStupid.com Workers Wages will go down if Obamacare Passes It’s going to hammer labor wages. Here’s a technical paper by two scholars from pay and benefits consultant Watson Wyatt [you can download it,but first there's a simple and free registration procedure]. A very well-informed reader who asked [...] | |