by Jane Richey | Jul 31, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
The federal government is growing like kudzu. That’s the Japanese ivy plant that’s taking over roadsides all over the south and is even invading the north. Kudzu does some good, holding the ground and so on, but the price is steep: It kills the other plants, trees and...
by Jane Richey | May 16, 2013 | Education Issues, Fiscal Responsibility
The outstanding balance for all of the direct student loans the federal government has issued topped $600 billion in April, according to newly released data from the U.S. Treasury. The total balance hit $600.457 billion by the end of April, says the Treasury, up from...
by Jane Richey | Nov 4, 2012 | Politics
The federal government spent enough money on federal means-tested welfare programs to have sent each impoverished household a check for nearly $60,000, according to figures from the Census Bureau and the Congressional Research Service(CRS). According to a report from...
by Jane Richey | Oct 25, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The U.S. Census recently announced that the number of Americans without health insurance in 2011 fell for the first time in three years, to 48.6 million. That’s a decrease of 1.3 million from the 2010 figure. Sounds like good news. But a closer look at the data...
by Jane Richey | Jul 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Debt is the surest and shortest path to a global economy. Punishing all actors in local economies but those who are “too big to fail” empowers “too big to fail” systems and “too big to fail” economies. Encouraging debt and the eventual assumption of debt passed on and...
