JANUARY 19, 2011 Let’s scrap the Departments of Commerce and Housing and Urban Development, end farm subsidies, and end urban mass transit grants, for starters. By DICK ARMEY AND MATT KIBBE The primary economic challenge today is that our government spends too much money it doesn’t have, and it is involved in too many things […]
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By Dr. Douglas A. Perednia The Washington Times December 27, 2010 Here’s a tip for those wanting to overhaul Obamacare: Ask doctors how to make health care more efficient. They can tell you where to find hundreds of billions of dollars in cost savings. But don’t imagine that you’ll get any useful insights from the
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JANUARY 6, 2011 The Italy of Asia Japan’s entitlement dilemmas are a warning to Washington. Japanese politics is once again in turmoil, with the government’s approval ratings around 20%. Prime Minister Naoto Kan is trying to force out his rival within the Democratic Party of Japan, Ichiro Ozawa, which might boost his own popularity but
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Government by regulation. Shhh. By Charles Krauthammer Friday, December 31, 2010; Most people don’t remember Obamacare’s notorious Section 1233, mandating government payments for end-of-life counseling. It aroused so much anxiety as a possible first slippery step on the road to state-mandated late-life rationing that the Senate never included it in the final health-care law. Well,
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NEW YORK TIMES December 24, 2010 WASHINGTON When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation, starting Saturday. Under the new policy, outlined in a Medicare regulation,
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Our burgeoning budget and the politics of avoidance By Robert J. Samuelson Monday, November 22, 2010; America’s budget problem boils down to a simple question: How much will we let programs for the elderly displace other government functions – national defense, education, transportation and many others – and raise taxes to levels that would, almost
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BOOK REVIEW: Recovery without interference By Wes Vernon The Washington Times September 20, 2010 RED STATE UPRISING: HOW TO TAKE BACK AMERICA By Erick Erickson and Lewis K. Uhler Regnery, $27.95, 200 pages When Prime Minister Winston Churchill returned to No. 10 Downing St. after six years in the political wilderness (since the postwar Labor
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010 Sebelius Has a List Political thuggery from HHS. ‘As a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs—we knew that,” President Obama said at his press conference Friday in response to a question about rising health spending. That wasn’t how he
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WALL STREET JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 14, 2010 Obstacle to Deficit Cutting: A Nation on Entitlements By SARA MURRAY Efforts to tame America’s ballooning budget deficit could soon confront a daunting reality: Nearly half of all Americans live in a household in which someone receives government benefits, more than at any time in history. At the same
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 The Federal Heath-Care Tease Minnesota’s Governor declines to take the ObamaCare bait. Among the many ways ObamaCare seeks to expand federal dominance over health care is with the billions of dollars it is offering to lure states into new programs, from which they’ll never escape. Among the Governors who are wise to
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