Tag: debt

Reminder: President Obama cut spending over 4% in 2012 and 2013, but the world didn’t end, despite claims we were heading over the cliff without brakes

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While you wouldn’t know it from the collective outrage visited upon us daily, between 2011 and 2013, total federal spending fell from $3.6 trillion to $3.45 trillion, but then as now, many predicted disasters that simply didn’t happen.  As is so often the case in our increasingly absurdist times, the conventional wisdom holds that all… Continue reading Reminder: President Obama cut spending over 4% in 2012 and 2013, but the world didn’t end, despite claims we were heading over the cliff without brakes

Why moving fast and breaking things is the ideal governing philosophy for our era

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The real questions confronting anyone who wants to reform the government and reduce the deficit are:  Is there some better approach that could be carried out with less “chaos” and are we taking on unnecessary risk by using this philosophy? There are many who support President Trump’s goal of streamlining the federal government to make… Continue reading Why moving fast and breaking things is the ideal governing philosophy for our era

Why I’m all out of compassion for government workers in the wake of the pandemic

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Less than four years ago, the unvaccinated were the enemy, killing their fellow citizens, and their rights, their jobs, their families, their homes, their entire lives didn’t matter.  There was no compassion to be found.  No sympathy.  No helping hand.  In many cases, not even unemployment when they were forced from their jobs for no… Continue reading Why I’m all out of compassion for government workers in the wake of the pandemic

Isn’t it ironic that the progressive answer to the supposedly unelected Elon Musk is equally unelected judges?

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For the sake of consistency, one would think those concerned about Mr. Musk’s electoral status would also be concerned that any of close to 700 judges in the district courts, none of whom were elected and none of whom enjoy powers enumerated in the Constitution itself, can arbitrarily block the will of a duly elected… Continue reading Isn’t it ironic that the progressive answer to the supposedly unelected Elon Musk is equally unelected judges?

The Elon Musk Factor shouldn’t be underestimated in Trump’s second term

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There has never been a partnership like the world’s most powerful and world’s richest man seemingly attached at the hip, neither of whom can be intimidated by anyone, under any circumstances, and whom the establishment has absolutely no power or control over.   I’ll admit:  The sight of the world’s most powerful and world’s richest… Continue reading The Elon Musk Factor shouldn’t be underestimated in Trump’s second term

Let them eat joy

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One narrative holds that Vice President Kamala Harris has created the most joyous, transcendent election campaign since President Barack Obama in less than three weeks.  Another is that she has done absolutely nothing except garner larger crowds, read someone else’s scripts, and pose for the cameras.  Like magic, the media has settled on a new… Continue reading Let them eat joy

Bill Clinton and who the radicals really are

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President Clinton isn’t quite a Republican by today’s standards, but he’s much closer to one than the current Democrat Party, and if Democrats still held his positions, or anything like them, there would be broad bipartisan support for any number of major reforms that would benefit the entire country. In yet another common refrain, the… Continue reading Bill Clinton and who the radicals really are

Biden’s budget is as demented as he is

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“This poor kid is down a hundred-foot vessel, chimney, scraping the hydrogen bubbles off of the inside,” the President told the Special Counsel.  “And he was wearing the wrong pants, wrong jeans, and he—a spark caught fire...and he lost part of his penis and one of his testicles and he was 23 years old.”  This… Continue reading Biden’s budget is as demented as he is

Taming the budget the Calvin Coolidge way

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The budget is an out of control beast, but this isn’t the first time elevated spending combined with massive inflation to threaten the economy. The Constitution gives the President the tools today as it did in the 1920s. All that’s missing is the will to do it the Coolidge way, cutting everywhere you can and… Continue reading Taming the budget the Calvin Coolidge way

Debt ceiling winners, losers, and random thoughts on our fiscal future

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No one should be under the illusion the debt ceiling deal does anything except increase spending.  Even if Congress follows the terms of the bill, spending will continue to grow every year and total debt will continue to increase with no viable prospect to achieve anything near a balanced budget.  Last week, the Great Debt… Continue reading Debt ceiling winners, losers, and random thoughts on our fiscal future