Collecting My Thoughts

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

Today I received an article about Upward Bound summer institute at Ohio State University, https://odi.osu.edu/upward-bound/ . Launched in 1...

The Weatherization Program in the new budget is one of the areas Democrats and media critics are complaining about. It's almost impossib...

One of the arguments I've heard in favor of keeping the various arts funding programs of the federal government is the wildly successful...

For over 50 years the federal government has been funding "conciliation and mediation services" ($14,500,000 in 2016) to local gro...

I saw a poster on the internet about how much we provide in foreign aid (not the one shown here) compared to taking care of our own poor, ...

U.S. aid devoted to malaria increased from $149 million in 2000 to $1.2 billion in 2008. In June 2005, President George W.Bush launched P...

The Democrats believe in and pass federal programs that require coercion and the Republicans believe in and pass federal programs that requi...

The omnibus 1,582 page appropriations bill includes increased funding for Head Start and Early Head Start by $612 million, to $8.6 billion. ...

Eliminate duplicative and unnecessary Government programs. None of these are poverty programs (close to $1 trillion).  Many of these hide in...

The 2014 budget requested $1.061 billion for the Corporation for National and Community Service, an increase of $12.2 million over the 2012 ...

Together our two parties have created a cushion for the unemployed, disabled, the poor, single mothers and low income--the earned income tax...

There are no cuts; it only slows down the spending. The 2012 federal budget was 3.53 trillion. The projected 2013 (by  CBO)  federal budget ...

Most of our tax money (70%) goes for social programs, especially Medicare, Medicaid, VA, and Social Security.  Some conservatives don’t like...

In 2010, the federal government spent 61% of its finances on housing and community services, welfare and social services, recreation and cul...

In common parlance, the words "wise woman" mean someone who depends on cards and herbs and pagan rituals to heal or help someone. ...

Twelve years ago, Milton Friednman discussed with Peter Robinson of Hoover Institution (Stanford) the basics of libertarianism , and the cab...

The Recession Did Not Create Our Entitlement Crisis There have been some whoppers fed to us at the Obama buffet table of lies, but this one ...

Our health care system And I use the term loosely, since it really isn't a system in any sense that we understand that word. "In 20...

The cost for hope and change--women and minorities hit hardest “President Bush ran budget deficits averaging $300 billion annually. After ha...