Collecting My Thoughts

For many years we had a "Friday night Date" and went out to eat. About 60 years. Then came Covid. The restaurants closed, churches...

"In 2021, Social Security spent $57 billion more than it collected in dedicated tax revenue and interest on its trust funds. The truste...

This non-profit has been launched by Steve Ballmer and wife Connie.  Although most non-profits established by wealthy capitalists claim to b...

$57,431.65 for each of 117,343,000 households. "Debt held by the public represents federal debt issued by Treasury and held by invest...

Obama took credit in the SOTU for the lower deficit, but it was the spending cuts demanded by the House Republicans and the 16 day shutdown ...

Democrats got their massive tax hikes, and are indiscriminately cutting rather than carving with the sequestration they wanted. Creating new...

On 60 minutes Obama surprised even his supporters by only accepting 10% of the blame for the economy. Washington Post Fact Checker goes thr...

Increased deficit? Loss of religious freedom? Increased health care costs? Expanded war zones? More people on food stamps? Loss of pre...

Obama has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. Didn’t he warn the Republicans if they didn’t play ball, or call his bluff, or eat their pea...

Harry Reid's plan: "The plan you have proposed would not alter the spending trajectory that is putting our economy and national sec...

If the GOP caves on this cut cap and balance, they are handing Obama a win in 2012. Obama will blame them either way. I've tried to fo...

Obviously, we'd still have a huge problem. Chart from American Thinker using CBO figures.

I've apparently picked up another computer infection--not sure why my MacAfee and firewall stuff aren't working. Gary says you can g...

President Johnson, a Democrat, declared a war on poverty, and poverty won ( NYT declares War on Poverty lost , 1999). I remember reading th...

This herd of sacred cows has doubled in size in two years, from Bush cows to Obama cows. Alan Simpson said that on Fox News last night. He...

"The Food Safety Modernization Act, is estimated to require $1.4 billion in new funds over five years, according to the Congressional B...

or as I like to call it, Pee-pee and Ca-Ca (Spanish and French for poop). Liberals like to claim it will reduce the deficit by $143 billion...

There's lots to blog about--immigration, oil spills, deficits, our future, cap and trade scam, political philosophies, economics, histor...

What happened to the Democrat bean counters? You remember--the ones who screamed about what that Iraq war money could be doing for the poor ...

He will take the credit and shift the blame The recovery funds really aren't out the door yet, not even the extended unemployment benefi...