by Jane Richey | Mar 6, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
1.) Hordes of minimum-wage workers 2.) The “working poor” getting by on minimum wage 3.) Minimum-wage workers trapped in poverty 4.) Lifelong minimum-wage earners 5.) More single parents on minimum wage Read...
by Jane Richey | Feb 15, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Ohio University economist Richard Vedder believes they were right. He says an expanding system of government benefits has helped create a poverty rate of 14 percent. “They’re actually creating a dependency on government, which is unhealthy both for the...
by Jane Richey | Dec 17, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
One of the tragic legacies of the Great Society is the violence inflicted upon the family as an institution. Through a series actions, calculated or not, the family has been devalued as the bedrock of civil society and replaced with the government acting in loco...
by Jane Richey | Dec 16, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Government, in its anti-wisdom of unreflective compassion, has effectively ordained the unintended consequence of sanctioning and subsidizing the “pigsty.” Why return to the father when one can keep his “pride” and continue eating pods...
by Jane Richey | Nov 20, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Poverty. It’s the excuse for nearly every government spending program. Help the poor. Tax the Rich. Get the 1%. How dare they get so wealthy while everyone else suffers! And what is the preferred way to eliminate poverty? Redistribution of wealth. It is the force...