Here’s a textbook example of the continuous loop of failure that is government by the progressive political movement now led by Barack Obama. In his State of the Union speech President Obama briefly assured us the deficit/debt problem was almost solved and then moved on.  He proposed lots of new government run programs and government [...]

Communication from the Congressional “Super Committee” reminds us of an overused gag from “I Love Lucy” and other early TV sitcoms.   Rickey comes home from work to learn that his ditzy wife Lucy has spent money they can’t afford on something they don’t need and he doesn’t want.  Lucy assures him the unneeded trinket [...]

First of a Three Part Series The political-media establishment often cites Medicare as a “popular” example of the benefits of activist government, unrestrained by Constitutional limits.  But in a rational world Medicare would be seen as a monument to progressive myths, deceptions and failures. In 1965 President Lyndon Johnson traveled to the Missouri home of [...]

If we’ve learned nothing else from the miserable experience of the past three years we have learned that massive government borrowing and spending creates debt, not jobs. The Labor Department released it’s monthly Jobs report on April 1.  The chart, tracks the results of the response by Presidents Bush and Obama to the current, deep [...]

In January 2010 President Obama made an assertion in his State of the Union message he hopes you forgot: We can’t afford another so-called economic “expansion” like the one from the last decade –- what some call the “lost decade” -– where jobs grew more slowly than during any prior expansion… The chart compares the [...]

A month ago the House of Representatives passed HR1, that would fund the government for the remainder of 2011 with paltry cuts of $61 billion. HR1 would reduce the 2011 deficit 3.7% from 1,645,119,000,000 to $1,585,119,000,000. On March 9, HR1 was defeated in the Senate. All Senate Democrats voted “no,” because they thought the cuts [...]

The drama is overwrought, and the debate is thundering.  But the substance is trifling. On february 20 The Republican House of Representatives passed a bill that would cut a mere $61 Billion from the Obama’s $3.5 Trillion spending plan for 2011. My first reaction was disappointment after such big talk during the campaign.   I was [...]

The Congressional Budget Office released its annual Budget and Economic Outlook last week.  It demonstrates the urgency of the mission voters elected Republicans to undertake. CBO’s projections are based on, quoting from the report: …the assumption that current laws governing taxes and spending will remain unchanged. The government’s fiscal year began on October 1, so [...]

America should be the best, not one of the worst places on the planet to do business! The State of the Union speech was long and as usual, was bland after expectations were built by weeks of media hype.  For the most part President Obama dug in his heels and avoided any concessions to his [...]

Grammy winner Steve Vaus released his new song, “Help You Make It to Your Flight.” (The song starts after a 15 second ad.)