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professor1 It Makes Sense Blog 2/17/2012 Congressman Allen West (R-FL) released this statement today after voting no on the extension of the Payroll Tax Cut: “Americans are exhausted, out of work and many have simply lost hope in the political system. They have been struggling now with nearly five consecutive years of record job stagnation, […] February 18th, 2012 | Tags: federal budget deficit, FHA, mortgage fees, mortgage foreclosures, payroll taxes, Rep. Allen West, Rep. John Conyers, slavery, Social Security | Category: Congress, Economy, Federal spending, Politics, Taxes | Comments are closed
Bye-Bye Brown William A. Jacobson Legal Insurrection 5/23/2011 You don’t need me. You have $7 million plus in the bank, and as of now, you’re the most popular politician in Massachusetts. I’m just a small-time, part-time, squeeze-in-posts-between-real-life, blogger. I supported you in early December 2009, when no one gave you a chance, and continued to […] May 23rd, 2011 | Tags: federal budget deficit, Medicare, Rep. Paul Ryan, Sen. Olympia Snowe, Sen. Scott Brown | Category: Elections, Federal spending, Massachusetts | Comments are closed
The Senate majority leader says budget reductions must be accompanied by tax reform. He predicts that negotiations on the nation’s debt limit will drag until the 11th hour. Lisa Mascaro Los Angeles Times 5/19/2011 Battle lines in federal debt talks sharpened markedly Thursday when the Senate’s top Democrat rejected a proposal for $2 trillion in […] May 20th, 2011 | Tags: federal budget deficit, Sen. Harry Reid, Sen. Tom Coburn MD, Speaker John Boehner, Vice President Joe Biden | Category: Congress, Federal spending, Taxes | Comments are closed
Jennifer Haberkorn Politico 4/26/2011 Record crowds of supporters and opponents flood meetings throughout southeastern Wisconsin. AP Photo KENOSHA, Wis. — Record crowds of supporters and opponents flooded town hall meetings throughout southeastern Wisconsin on Tuesday to hear Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) defend his plan to trim government spending — including controversial […] April 26th, 2011 | Tags: federal budget deficit, Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), Medicare, Rep. Paul Ryan, Town Hall meetings | Category: Entitlements, Federal spending, Wisconsin | Comments are closed
Rasmussen Reports 4/26/2011 Even though the last session of Congress was one of the biggest spending in history, very few voters are aware that most of today’s federal budget deficit is actually the product of congressional decisions made decades ago. In fact, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 23% of Likely […] April 26th, 2011 | Tags: 1960s, 1970s, federal budget deficit, Medicaid, Medicare, President Lyndon B. Johnson, President Richard M. Nixon, Rasmussen Reports, Social Security, The Great Society, Viet Nam War | Category: Congress, Entitlements, Federal spending, Military, National Security, Politicians, Polls, Progressives | Comments are closed
FoxNews.com 4/20/2011 Even though the White House has publicly downplayed the credit warning issued Monday from a leading agency, Obama administration officials were privately trying in recent weeks to convince Standard & Poor’s not to lower its outlook for U.S. debt from “stable” to “negative,” Fox News has confirmed. But after a series of meetings […] April 20th, 2011 | Tags: federal budget deficit, Standard & Poor (S&P), Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner | Category: Banking and finance, Barack Obama, Congress, Federal spending, Treasury Department | Comments are closed
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