Articles tagged with: United States
McConnell Blocks “Student Loan Bill” & Blames Obama
It should come as no surprise that the highly dysfunctional U.S. Senate was unable to reach a compromise on the so-called “Student Loan Bill”. Although most lawmakers in both parties agree that extending the low 3.4% rate on federally subsided Stafford Loans would be a good thing, the disagreement comes on how the $6.0 billion cost would be funded. As …
Europeans Reject “Republican-Style” Austerity
In the recent presidential elections in France the voters sent a very clear signal to the French government, to the other European members of the EU, and to a lesser extent, the rest of the industrialized world. The message was that the French people would no longer tolerate sharp budget cuts and economic austerity as a response to the budget …
The U.S. Postal Service: Rest In Peace
The U.S. Postal Service is in deep financial trouble, and it doesn’t look like things are going to get much better any time soon. Declining mail volume, combined with a congressional mandate to prefund retirement health care benefits have resulted in a $5.1 billion loss for the latest fiscal year. This situation is sure to get even worse in subsequent …
Job Growth Will Propel Obama To A Second Term
The Republicans have spent the last year or so wrangling with each other in an attempt to get across to the voters their own particular brand of conservatism. Likewise, the Democrats have spent the last year or so responding to the GOP‘s trumped-up charges of mismanagement, and have attempted to brand the Republicans as extremists who out to destroy the …
Rep. Allen West : “Congress Infiltrated With Commies”
In this year of great political turmoil within the Republican Party, it would be difficult to come up any additional characters that could possibly be more derisive, or further out of touch with middle class Americans, than the presidential wanna-bees of Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, Perry, Bachmann and Cain. Over the course of the last year, all of these Republicans have …
America’s Ayatollah: The Supreme Court
The Constitutional principles that are the basis of the U.S. government have served America very well over the last 225 years, although these principles have been sorely tested from time to time. In fact, the U.S. Constitutional itself has been amended twenty-seven times since it was first enacted in 1787, and one time was rejected altogether by a group of …
The Time Has Come to End U.S. Deficits
A whole lot of middle class Americans, who have been watching the value of their 401K retirement plans go up and down like yo-yo’s over the last four years, are beginning to look fearfully toward Europe for a sign of what might be in store for the U.S. Unfortunately, the picture isn’t very pretty. Much like the U.S., European countries …
Gingrich Calls America Dysfunctional
On Wednesday Newt Gingrich spoke at a press conference at Georgetown University. During his first public appearance since announcing he had dramatically cut back on his presidential campaign, Newt hammered away at the usual themes of how Obama is ruining the country, how the news media is out to get him, and how his Republican opponents have corrupted his “big …
The Reverend Santorum’s Truth Impairment
It seems as if Rick Santorum‘s reputation for being autocratic and humorless is really starting to show itself on the campaign trail. In fact, the Reverend Rick has even begun using salty language toward the mainstream media, whom he perceives as liberal, self-serving and controlled by evil, lying pundits. These days, Santorum is pushing forward with a one-man crusade to …
Paul Ryan’s “Path to Poverty” for the Middle Class
The House Republicans released this week a budget plan for the United States called “The Path to Prosperity“. According to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, the new budget initiative contains all of the policies that Republicans believe are needed to move America forward. It is, in fact, a revealing blueprint of how Mr. Ryan and his fellow conservatives view …
