Last evening Brian Williams of the Nightly News with Brian Williams said that “reasonable people” believe that the debt ceiling must be raised. Either he is wrong or I am unreasonable. Raising the debt ceiling is neither reasonable nor necessary to…
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Obama wants back in the game
Obama is back on the stump and he wants back in the game.. Not wanting to waste the debt ceiling crisis, he used the East Room of the White House last evening to campaign for re-election. He used the bully…
A couple of revealing answers from yesterday’s news shows
QUESTION/ANSWER #1: From “Meet the Press” on Sunday, July 24, 2011 David Gregory asked William Daley, White House Chief of Staff the following question regarding a suggestion that a “super-committee” would be tasked with making the hard choices on budget cuts at…
The Gang of Six’s “Wimpy” Plan
Some of you may not be old enough to remember Wimpy. Wimpy was Popeye’s friend in cartoons. He was very intelligent, and well educated, and also something of a scam artist. I was reminded of Wimpy when I was reading…
Obamacare and the Deficit
Americans are speaking loud and clear but the Obama regime is not listening. The news of late is dominated by the Debt Ceiling negotiations and the American people clearly believe that the deficit must be reduced by spending cuts. While…
Voters support Republican position in debt ceiling negotiations
According to a recent Rasmussen survey, eighty-five percent (85%) of voters are following the debt ceiling story closely and 52% believe it would be dangerous to raise the debt ceiling without making significant cuts in government spending. Fifty-eight percent (58%) of…
U.S. Treasury options to avoid default
The U.S. Treasury Department has options available to it right now to avoid default in the short term and provide the time required to engineer a long term solution to the problem of unrestrained government spending. The U.S. does not have…