by Jane Richey | Feb 6, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Health Care
The Congressional Budget Office is offering a bleak picture of the exponential growth of entitlement spending over the next decade, stating that 53% of all federal spending in that time, amounting to $24.9 trillion, will be due to entitlements and Obamacare. n its...
by Jane Richey | Feb 6, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposed pension reform package, which calls for new employees to be enrolled in a 401(k) and current employees to see some changes in the way their pensions are calculated, is being met with fierce, but predictable opposition from state...
by Jane Richey | Feb 6, 2013 | Agenda 21
According to a new study by an international team of researchers, earthworms could be contributing to global warming. The study looked at results from 237 separate experiments from published stories to explore earthworms’ role in affecting global warming. “Our results...
by Jane Richey | Feb 6, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Obama lately has acted as though most of the work has already been done to get the debt problem under control. At a recent press conference, he claimed that he’s already cut long-term deficits by $2.5 trillion and that “closing some additional loopholes...
by Jane Richey | Feb 6, 2013 | Health Care
According to the Congressional Budget Office, Obamacare will push 7 million Americans off of their employer-based health plans by 2022. So much for the law’s goal of introducing an era of universal coverage. The 7 million figure, reported Tuesday, is a revision....