The Republican “Party of Fiscal Responsibility” continues to rack up debt at a staggering rate. The U.S. Treasury plans to borrow another $425 billion in the final quarter of 2018, bringing total borrowing for the year to $1.34 trillion. On today’s Good Morning Liberty, Michael Boldin (follow) covers this, plus the fact that Social Security […]
Democrats and Republicans have both pushed to advance and preserve big-government socialist programs, even though only one of those teams seems to admit it.
Are you depending on Social Security and Medicare for your retirement? You might want to rethink that plan. These unconstitutional government programs are going broke even faster than expected. For the first time since 1982, Social Security will have to dip into its $3 trillion trust fund in order to cover benefits this year. In…
Author’s Note: This is the third in a series of articles about Nebraska’s Medicaid program, the Unicameral’s apparent intent to expand it, and the many reasons why expansion is an uncommonly bad idea. Although they don’t have to be read in order, here are links to the previously-published articles in the series: NE Medicaid Expansion:… more
I’ve been studying economics this school year along with my two teenaged sons in our homeschool. We listened to a lecture the other day during which Nobel Laureate economist Robert E. Lucas, Jr., was quoted. After hearing our president’s remarks on the occasion of his second inauguration, I felt compelled to go back and listen… more
We don’t know about anyone else, but we’re a little tired of having our intelligence insulted. We started writing this article on Monday, well before the votes were in from “Super Tuesday”. When family matters interrupted our task, we hoped we’d be proven wrong and just have to scratch this article. But, alas, as the… more
Feedburner / Email subscribers: Please note that there are several videos embedded in this article. If they are not visible in this message, please click here to read the article on the site. Wow. President Obama and the question: Is he “Deserving of Darts”? Broad subject…right? We have never “awarded” Barack Obama this dubious GiN… more
From Ed Morrissey; My friend Jazz Shaw worries that Rick Perry’s argument that Social Security in its present form is a “Ponzi scheme” leaves him vulnerable in a general election. Rick Santelli gave it a workout on CNBC today against the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman, who ends up sputtering into ad hominems when he [...]
In what was overall a very thoughtful, well-delivered speech, Sen. Marco Rubio reacted to the passage of the bill increasing the debt ceiling by describing two competing visions for the future of our country. “Patriotic, country-loving Americans can disagree on their future vision of what kind of country we should be. But this division, this [...]
Considering that most of the wheeling and dealing involved in government goes on behind closed doors, more likely than not most of what we Americans hear and see playing out in the media is maneuvering. These P.R. battles seem to provide politicians the ability to “throw some red meat” to their respective bases of support. [...]