The Gang of Six Has Convinced Me

Elgin Hushbeck -

To the Gang of Six, After all of the past promises of “Future cuts” that have never come to pass, how can you expect people, who have for decades received nothing but broken promises and accounting gimmicks, to fall for the same thing yet again?  Please explain how this last minute deal will succeed where […]

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The Deal: Strike One

Elgin Hushbeck -

As the dust settles form the last minute settlement to avoid a government shutdown, it is clear, at least to me, that Boehner came up short. From a campaign promise of $100 billion, House Republicans bargained themselves down to $61 billion, which was reduced even further in the negotiations with the Democrats to $38 billion.   […]

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Following the Jimmy Carter example, yet again

Elgin Hushbeck -

The No-Labels crowd is back with a major push, which is not too surprising.  The more Democrats and/or liberals reveal their true nature, thereby damaging their brand, the more they seek to avoid labels that would identify them for who they are.  Obama, Reid and Pelosi have really made a mess of things this time, […]

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Obama’s Deficit

Elgin Hushbeck -

Obama has announced his budget for 2011 and he is proposing to spend $3.83 Trillion.  To many this is a meaningless number, but to put this in some sort of context consider that the 2008 budget was a mere $2.9 Trillion.  The intervening years had TARP and the bailouts, but those are over. This budget […]

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A Touch of Class

Elgin Hushbeck -

Whether planned or not, one of the results of Obama’s attempted transformation of the United States is to bring a touch of class to the country.  But not class in a good sense, but rather the growing division of the country into two increasingly distinct groups, the Elites, and the Public. Three sub-groups then divide […]

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