VIDEO – CHRIS CHRISTIE AT THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
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Entitlements
OBAMACARE AND THE MEDICAID MESS
FEBRUARY 15, 2011 States need relief from the program’s inflexible rules and escalating costs. By PETER SUDERMAN Facing growing resistance to Medicaid costs, the Obama administration’s Health and Human Services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, sent a letter to states last week noting the “urgency of your State budget concerns” and suggesting some minor program changes to
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OBAMA’S BUDGET BLUFF – DICK MORRIS
OBAMA’S BUDGET BLUFF By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN Published on DickMorris.com on February 14, 2011 The Obama Administration and its acolytes on the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction commission are propagating the myth that it is Social Security and Medicare that are driving the deficit over $1.5 trillion. Discretionary spending, they plead, is but a tiny
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JERRY BROWN: TO DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM OF TURNING CALIFORNIA AROUND
February 10, 2011 Jerry Brown: A Modern-Day Sisyphus By Victor Davis Hanson California Gov. Jerry Brown must rapidly close a $25 billion budgetary shortfall. But right now it seems almost a hopeless task since the state’s disastrous budget is a symptom, not the cause, of California’s much larger nightmare. Take unemployment. It currently runs 12.6
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RAND PAUL – A MODEST $500 BILLION PROPOSAL
FEBRUARY 7, 2011 A Modest $500 Billion Proposal My spending cuts would keep 85% of government funding and not touch Social Security or Medicare. By RAND PAUL After Republicans swept into office in 1994, Bill Clinton famously said in his State of the Union address that the era of big government was over. Nearly $10
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THE STATES CAN’T AFFORD OBAMACARE
FEBRUARY 4, 2011 Their budgets will be crushed by the Medicaid expansions that the feds are forcing on them. By GEORGE MELLOAN Behind this week’s ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson overturning ObamaCare on constitutional grounds, there is a deeper economic reality. The states can’t afford it. That’s a primary reason why 26
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BUBBLES BUBBLES EVERYWHERE – VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
February 4, 2011 Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere By Victor Davis Hanson The 2008 financial crash originated with a housing bubble. Not long ago, the cheap money policies of the Federal Reserve, the infusion of trillions of dollars in new foreign investment, and the misguided policies of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae all conspired to extend to
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