JULY 26, 2011 Price controls on Part D drugs would cripple medical innovation and undermine a successful federal entitlement program. By TOMAS J. PHILIPSON Medicare Part D, the prescription-drug benefit program for seniors, has cost the federal government considerably less than was initially estimated. It’s also overwhelmingly popular among beneficiaries. But in Washington, Part D […]
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JULY 25, 2011 The President isn’t serious about real spending cuts. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The President insists his party is offering serious spending cuts and entitlement reform. He also likes to talk about “balance,” which to him means real tax increases immediately and speculative spending cuts some time in the distant future. Behind the
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JULY 25, 2011 A welfare state that led to permanent austerity would betray the principles that have made American culture exceptional. By ARTHUR C. BROOKS EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:Consider a few facts. The Bureau of Economic Analysis tells us that total government spending at all levels has risen to 37% of gross domestic product today
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JULY 23, 2011 Notable & Quotable Syndicated columnist Linda Chavez on unemployment benefits. Syndicated columnist Linda Chavez writing at townhall.com on July 22: Several studies show that about one-third of those receiving unemployment benefits get a job immediately after their eligibility expires. And a quick survey of help-wanted signs and classified ads in most areas
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July 22, 2011 Never Trust Anything From a Gang By David Limbaugh 7/22/2011 The vaunted budget plan from the “Gang of Six” is said to be growing in popularity, but all you need to know to oppose the plan is that a “gang” is behind it. Also, President Obama and Sen. Dick Durbin both support
The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation – http://blog.heritage.org – Morning Bell: What Is Poverty in America? Posted By Mike Brownfield On July 18, 2011 @ 9:52 am In Family and Religion | 134 Comments As Congress struggles to find a way to cut spending as part of raising the $14 trillion
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JULY 16, 2011 A teachable debt-ceiling moment. President Obama famously played to grandma’s Social Security fears this week, saying in an interview about the debt-ceiling talks that “I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3 if we haven’t resolved this issue because there may simply not be the money in the coffers
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Fri, Jul 15, 2011 BY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER – Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is demanding a big long-term budget deal. He won’t sign anything less, he warns, asking, “If not now, when?” How about last December, when he ignored his own debt commission’s recommendations? How about February, when he presented a budget
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JULY 13, 2011, 7:28 P.M. ET What if the weak recovery is all the recovery we are going to get? By DANIEL HENNINGER Barack Obama, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have been performing an intricate scorpion dance over spending, taxes and the debt ceiling, premised on the belief that this is the deal that would
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, Jul. 13, 2011, By MICHAEL GOODWIN July 13, 2011 When President Obama started talking at his news conference Monday, I listened intently for 15 minutes or so. Then I got fidgety as his half-truths about the debt grew into full-blown whoppers. As he droned on, I did something I never did before during an
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