Showing posts with label sequestration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sequestration. Show all posts
Matthew Walther: Rand The Realist
The Kentucky senator is his own man. Rand Paul’s shirts always seem to fit. Look at almost any
picture of him: The jacket lapel is always touching the tip of his
collar, if only just barely. His untamed curls notwithstanding, he
looks professional, put together, serious. The junior senator from
Kentucky wasn’t wearing a jacket when I sat down ... MOREObama's Tyranny: Petty Or Something More Sinister
by Matt Holzmann. Last week, headlines informed us that, because of the Sequester, the FAA will be reducing the number of Air Traffic Controllers and closing 149 control towers completely. Earlier, the Department of Homeland Security released hundreds of illegal aliens awaiting deportation because they could not afford to hold them ... MOREPoliticians Prefer Scare Tactics To Sensible Reform
by Steven Greenhut. Not many of my friends or neighbors are sitting on pins and needles, worrying that the world as we know it will end as the federal government “slashes” spending as part of the automatic sequester cuts mandated by a previous budget bill. And not many people have been thinking, “Geesh, there’s nothing we need more than ... MOREWe Should Be Embarrassed By The Sequester Debate
by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins. The sequester debate is a national embarrassment - though not for the reasons you might think. We are debating whether shaving a few percent off the government's bloated budget will bring the country to its knees. It's a good thing the Founders are long dead, because if George Washington or James Madison ... MOREBrian Domitrovic: The Sequester That Saved The Economy
Remember stimulus spending? That’s the stuff that the government is supposed to come up with when the economy goes into recession. The idea is that since government expenditures are one part of overall economic output, when private activity wanes, aggregate output, or “GDP” can be maintained. It’s intriguing as a theory, perhaps, but in ... MOREIf You're Reading This, You're Surviving The Sequester Cuts
by John Stossel. That may surprise you, since President Obama likened the sequester to taking a "meat cleaver" to government, causing FBI agents to be furloughed, prosecutors to let criminals escape and medical research to grind to a halt! The media hyped it, too. The NBC Nightly News said, "The sequester could cripple air travel, force ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Obama's False Alarms
Playing politics with blue smoke and mirrors. In an effort to remove the hot-potato issue of excessive government spending from the 2012 presidential campaign, and calling the bluff of congressional Republicans who always seem to favor domestic spending cuts but increased military spending, President Obama suggested the ... MORERick Moran: The Upside To Sequestration?
Government carries forward its own momentum. Matthew Cooper writing at the National Journal: Everyone agrees that sequestration is asinine, but Washington is increasingly resigned to it. Other deadlines have been met by fevered last-minute negotiations and, mercifully, avoidance of calamity. This time there's less urgency and more sighs. There is an ... MORE
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