By Shelli Dawdy As the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, the federal government ended November as the 26th month in a row spending more money that it had taken in (by $150.4 billion) and the most recent projections available mean Fiscal Year 2011 could reach a new record $1.5 trillion deficit, topping the 2009 [...]
By Shelli Dawdy CBS’ 60 Minutes aired an interview with President Obama on Sunday. I confess, I have not had the…heart?…stomach?…enough duct tape? to watch the interview in its entirety. I had my TV on far more than usual this weekend, though, and found myself inundated with the seemingly obligatory rehashes by every political talking [...]
Two-thirds of Nebraskans don’t want the health care law implemented. Of that number it’s impossible to know how many realize that there is more than one way to fight its implementation. Considering the potential damage the fully implemented law would cause to the economy, quality of care, medical innovation, and individual liberty, it stands to [...]
We’ve not spoken much about faith on this site, but the more we look at solutions to the many problems we’re confronting, we discover we can’t do this alone. In order to do many of the things that we’ve already done, it’s required additional strength. There is a bit of momentum of late – we [...]
Posted by Shelli Dawdy Why do federal elected officials seem to be impervious to the objections of their constituents, specifically when those objections are voiced in large numbers? That phenomenon was very well illustrated by the drama that reached a crescendo on October 3, 2008. Congress passed the bailout bill (TARP) despite call ratios into [...]