Here are three things I’ve been thinking about. One, it’s bad news for President Obama that a circuit court has ruled that part of his health care plan is unconstitutional. The provision that adults must purchase their own health insurance (if they aren’t working at a job that provides it) was the item in question. […]
Well, the Apocalypse was avoided–Congress made its deal on the debt ceiling, the United States government did not go into default, social security checks got mailed out on time, and life as we know it did not come crashing to a halt. And now for the retrospective… I’m not surprised that a deal was made.
I’ve made it clear here before that I think the primary responsibility for resolving the debt-ceiling limit issue resides with Congress. They are supposed to establish how the government spends its (our) money–the President only has to sign off or veto their legislation. If a President wants to give Congress some guidelines as to what he
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So we’ve got a debt problem with the federal government (and they’re hardly alone–California, Wisconsin, and the nation of Greece all have big problems, too). We need to raise the limit on our debt ceiling soon, or we’re going to default on our loans. What should we do about dealing with debts and deficits? Republicans are
A Different Direction for Washington Read More »
Our federal debt is over 14 trillion dollars, but apparently that isn’t enough. Democrats have been pushing Republicans to raise the debt limit, so our credit as a nation isn’t hurt. Republicans have been pushing President Barack Obama to present Congress with budget proposals that have significant cuts, so we can reduce our debt. Since
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