Economic Stimulus From Washington Isn't A Slam Dunk
An economic stimulus is all the rage in Washington these days. The president says he is seriously considering one and may reveal it in his State of the Union Address; congressional Democrats are...
View ArticleThe Real Deficit and Debt Numbers For 2008
The Associated Press is reporting this morning what everyone already knows: the Congressional Budget Office will project that the deficit will increase from fiscal 2007 to 2008. Including the...
View ArticleMonday's Budget Summit Will Be Historic
Every other budget summit has been held when a deal had to be reached more or less immediately. In all of those cases, a summit was needed because there was some type of budget stalemate between...
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Washington Post Budget Editorial is So Wrong Because...
I promised over the weekend that I had much more to say about Saturday's Washington Post editorial on the deficit that was...well...completely wrong.Take a look.Wars and Health Care Reform Should Both...
View ArticleThe Defense Budget: Time to End the Mantra of Fear
(originally posted on The Will and the Wallet For thirty-five years, the Egyptian people believed the myth and lived in fear, fear of the security forces and fear of the chaos and instability that...
View ArticleWaste, Fraud, and Abuse: How the Debt Negotiators are Fudging on the Defense...
Rumor has it that the current deficit/debt discussions between the White House and the Republican House leadership may include $1 trillion in defense savings over the next ten years. If this were...
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