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Recently I saw a clip (if I find it I will link to it) where Senate majority leader Harry Reid was asked about the solvency of Social Security.  His reply was that it was sound and nothing has to be done in the near future.  As Allan Sloan points out in The Washington Post, this is a [...]

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released new unemployment figures, which showed the nation’s unemployment rate fell to 9.5 percent in June, down two-tenths of a percent from May.  If one isn’t familiar with the data, they would think that this is a good sign the economy is in recovery.  Yet the fall was not due [...]

Is Senator Harry Reid the worst majority leader of the past one hundred years?  Recent data seems to indicate that he is in the running.  Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the latest state unemployment data and Mr. Reid’s home state of Nevada clocked in at 14 percent—compared with the U.S. average of [...]

The unrest in Greece over the austerity programs the Greek government needed to implement is a harbinger of things to come in the United States and the rest of Europe.  The problem is the idea of entitlement by too many citizens—promoted by the very governments who they are rioting against. This was evident by the [...]

Last month the president created the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.  The purpose of the commission is to recommend ways to reign in the out of control deficits projected over the next decade.  First of all, isn’t the federal budget the responsibility of Congress and the president?   I am sure the members of [...]

The so-called Democratic deficit-hawks based their vote on health-care reform on whether it paid for itself or not–never questioning if spending an additional $940 billion over the next ten years was a good idea.  Thus all eyes were on the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and what its final score–i.e. what are the projected costs of health-care–would [...]

One argument made by President Obama and Democrats on why Congress should pass health-care reform is the polls say so.  They concede that a majority of Americans oppose the overall bill, but they point out when you ask them about the individual aspects of the bill, a majority of Americans like each of them.  So [...]

President Obama gave the economy of Washington a big boost this past week.  It was in the form of the 10,000 people who converged on the nation’s capital to attend the CPAC convention.  Restaurants and bars, especially near the hotel where the convention was held, were packed throughout the three-day event.  What they had in common was [...]

One of the best decisions I made was to move into Washington so I would not have to deal with the long commutes–though the trade-off is living in a city with an incompetent government.  Last Friday reinforced this feeling.  It was the first day back to work for most people since the back-to-back snow storms hit the [...]

In yesterday’s Washington Post, there was an article about how members of Congress get the choice seats for the State of the Union address.  There is a picture of Representatives Sheila Jackson Lee and Eliot Engel saving their seats well before the start of President Obama’s address.   Basically it is first come, first served.  There is no saving [...]