by Jane Richey | Sep 20, 2013 | Agenda 21
Members of the East Pennsboro Township board of commissioners Monday said they are concerned over what it will cost taxpayers for the municipality to comply with Environmental Protection Agency rules and regulations necessary to maintain a national pollutant discharge...
by Jane Richey | Sep 19, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Health Care
Today’s Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report [2] reiterates the long-standing and obvious fact that there is a health care spending crisis approaching, resulting largely from the structurally flawed Medicare program and made significantly worse by Obamacare’s new...
by Jane Richey | Sep 18, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
Since January, the Social Security Administration (SSA) sent disability insurance (SSDI) checks worth $1.29 billion to an estimated 36,000 people who were still on the job and thus ineligible for benefits, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report...
by Jane Richey | Sep 18, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
During the four years that marked President Barack Obama’s first term in office, the real median income of American households dropped by $2,627 and the number of people in poverty increased by approximately 6,667,000, according to data released today by the Census...
by Jane Richey | Sep 18, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
House Republicans are moving forward with a government funding bill that would defund ObamaCare. The legislation is a nod to House conservatives, some of whom quickly backed the plan. But Senate Democrats and the White House have promised to reject any legislation...
