August 12, 2011 By Michelle Malkin 8/12/2011 Everything that’s wrong with the so-called debt “super-committee” can be summed up in the person, partisan hackery and policy ignorance of Washington Democratic Sen. Patty Murray. On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid named Murray co-chair of the dog-and-pony deficit-reduction panel tasked with identifying $1.5 trillion in spending […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Guilty Men The political origins of the meltdown. Christopher Caldwell July 25, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 42 Reckless Endangerment How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon by Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner Times Books, 352 pp., $30 To have served as the intellectual architect of the
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JULY 28, 2011 The Road to a Downgrade A short history of the entitlement state. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Many on the left still blame Ronald Reagan, but the debt increase in the 1980s financed a robust economic expansion and victory in the Cold War. Debt held by the public at the end of the
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Neil Reynolds With government spending, virtue hath its own rewards NEIL REYNOLDS | Columnist profile | E-mail From Monday’s Globe and Mail Published Monday, Jul. 25, 2011 2:00AM EDT In 1900, the governments of the world’s most advanced economies taxed and spent, on average, 10 per cent of respective GDP each year. By 2000, they
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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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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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THE WASHINGTON TIMES NATIONAL WEEKLY EDITION July 4, 2011 LETTER TO THE EDITOR by Marvin L. Hoovis, Centerville, Massachusetts THEY’VE COMPLETELY CHANGED THE COUNTRY IN THE PAST 40 YEARS The far-left liberal progressives must be awed and encouraged by their success in achieving many of their desired agenda changes over recent decades. They have support
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JULY 15, 2011 The real reason the U.S. could lose its AAA rating. So the credit-rating agencies that helped to create the financial crisis that led to a deep recession are now warning that the U.S. could lose the AAA rating it has had since 1917. As painfully ironic as this is, there’s no benefit
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JULY 11, 2011 Relying on unelected bureaucrats, such as ObamaCare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, to ratchet down Medicare price controls won’t control overutilization. By MERRILL MATTHEWS AND MARK LITOW Almost all discussions about Medicare reform ignore one key factor: Medicare utilization is roughly 50% higher than private health-insurance utilization, even after adjusting for age and
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