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No More Patience on the National Debt, Federal Budget Deficit
Tweet Share on Facebook February 17, 2011 Comment (11)I’m tired of being patient. Yea, it may be a virtue; but it’s also threatening my future.
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Obama's Rhetoric Won't Create Any Jobs
Tweet Share on Facebook February 10, 2011 Comment (3)Earlier this week, President Obama stood before the Chamber of Commerce and implored them to “get off the sidelines and invest in America.” It was a speech reminiscent of King Cnut, the Nordic monarch who built his throne on the beach and commanded the waves to cease so that they would not wet his robes.
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GOP Has the Upper Hand in the Government Spending Battle
Tweet Share on Facebook February 3, 2011 Comment (6)Battle lines are being drawn for a showdown over government spending. It will no doubt make the hard-hitting Super Bowl contest between the Steelers and the Packers look like a game of touch football. For those outside of Green Bay and Pittsburgh, the outcome of this debate could be much more important than who takes home the Lombardi Trophy.
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What Obama Should Address in the State of the Union
Tweet Share on Facebook January 25, 2011 CommentThe State of the Union is to politics what the Super Bowl is to football. Both events involve weeks of analysis and predictions before a down is played or a word is spoken; they both cause onlookers to engage in superfluous and unnecessary standing ovations; and they are both marked by copious amounts of drinking. If you think I’m stretching the truth on the last one, I encourage you to Google “State of the Union” and “drinking game.”
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Deficit Helping Fiscal Conservatism Take Hold In Odd Places
Tweet Share on Facebook January 19, 2011 Comment (6)They say necessity is the mother of invention. But the opposite is also true: Luxury is the mother of neglect. That is where much of the Western world finds itself. In our prosperity, we have spent beyond our means and have neglected the difficult budgetary choices we have been confronted with. This has necessitated a return to fiscal conservatism, brought on by a frantic need to escape the consequences of our abandonment of spending restraint.
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Time for Bipartisan Agreement on Tax Reform
Tweet Share on Facebook January 12, 2011 Comment (6)There is no doubt I should be writing about the tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. But the wild media narrative, which has taken every conceivable twist and turn, has veered into an area that I am loath to discuss. Partisan point scoring, which is what this whole tragedy has become, may drive website traffic, but it also drives me up the wall. The fact is, young adults are increasingly being driven away from the two parties by partisan attacks that appeal to a narrow, if influential, part of the base.
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The Growing Social Security and Medicare Problem
Tweet Share on Facebook January 5, 2011 Comment (21)It’s the beginning of a New Year, meaning crowded gyms, commercial breaks filled with weight-loss ads, and a glass-half-full attitude about the upcoming year. That glass half full should be just enough to dissolve my Alka Seltzer, because all this positivity is enough to give me heartburn.
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Twitter Founder, Not Facebook's, for Time's Person of the Year
Tweet Share on Facebook December 15, 2010 Comment (5)Time magazine’s “Person of the Year 2010” is out and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is your winner. Given that Facebook has been popular on college campuses for nearing a decade, Time may be a little behind the times on this one. Overall, I’m left with the feeling that the award has more to do with the movie The Social Network, which came out this year, than the website, which launched in 2004.
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Now Democrats Are the 'Party of No'
Tweet Share on Facebook December 9, 2010 Comment (3)No longer the Grand Old Party, the GOP over the past two years has come to stand for something much different. As Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer said, they became the “Grand Obstructionist Party.” “Perhaps they see progress in a new Congress as defeat for them rather than a win for the American people,” Schumer said. “Whatever the reason, they need to know that by their obstructionism, they’re not hurting Democrats, they’re slighting the American people.”
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Forget the Bush Tax Cuts; Reform The Tax Code
Tweet Share on Facebook December 3, 2010 Comment (13)The old saying goes, “You can tell a lot about a man by looking at his shoes.” Well, I can tell a lot about our government by looking at our tax code. It’s inefficient, bloated, and wasteful. More than that, judging by the innumerable exclusions, exemptions, deductions, and credits that reward certain behaviors, I’d say they want us to own houses, go to college, buy green products, and have life insurance.
