Obama’s Deficit
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 […]
Read More..>>Obama and Scaling Back the Federal Bureaucracy
President Obama and the Democrats may be setting the nation up to accomplish something conservatives have been advocating for decades, the scaling back of the federal bureaucracy, and on a scale more massive than conservatives may have even wished. This is not, of course, Obama’s intention. Far from it. Nor will it be for the reasons or […]
Read More..>>An Open Reply…
Brian McLaren’s Recent post at God’s Politics, An Open Letter On Health Care to Conservative Christians in the U.S. is the kind of post that frankly drives me nuts, broad on charges and innuendo, but very thin when it comes to specifics. As such, though I consider myself a conservative evangelical Christian, I have no […]
Read More..>>A Touch of Class
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 […]
Read More..>>News Report or Defense of Obama?
Just saw an AP news report, FACT CHECK: GOP joins spin game over stimulus jobs. While they mentioned the Republican math as “convoluted” as the White Houses formula, there was no link to a comprable story fact checking the While House. A quick search for “fact check” found this article but no corresponding article for the White House. […]
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