Krauthammer to GOP: make your own budget, force Obama to sequester
Charles Krauthammer turned his attention to the Republicans after President Obama’s proposed budget still exceeded projected revenues. The conservative was on Fox News offering his brand of advice. BRET BAIER: More...
Four Ways to Reduce Business Technology Costs
The amount your company spends on gadget can easily add up, with tech purchases ballooning into enormous expenditures. Businesses that rely heavily on their technology to get them through daily operations can be More...
Rand Paul opposes ‘shut down,’ ‘funding Obamacare’ and says compromise may be coming ‘to make it less bad’
Senator Rand Paul signaled that a compromise on Obamacare to would make it “less bad,” rather than pushing the government into a shutdown over conservative demands that the healthcare law be defunded, More...
Student Loan rates double as CBO reveals money used for Obamacare
Interest rates on federally subsidized Stafford student loans doubled overnight, soaring from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent after Congress failed to reach a deal. The news broke as the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) More...
Harry Reid calls Ted Cruz a ‘schoolyard bully’ over budget battle
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) called Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) a “schoolyard bully” during a contentious exchange Monday on the Senate floor. The two senators battled as Cruz rose to object to Reid’s More...
Sequestation blamed for flight delays while taxpayers spend $152K on transgender voice study
Sequestration may be the topic of discussion in Washington budget talks and reductions, but critics are getting increasingly louder as air travel delays mount, national parks close and the federal spending includes More...
Jay Carney rudely responds to female NPR reporter over entitlement questions, adds
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney during a press briefing on Monday snapped at NPR reporter Mara Liasson for asking whether entitlement reforms would be part of President Barack Obama’s official budget. “Mara, More...
CBO projects record tax revenues for 2013 of $2.7 trillion, focus shifts to spending
Budget negotiations continue in Washington but a new report from teh CBO, Congressional Budget Office, may cause more shifts in talk. donkeyhotey donkeyhotey.wordpress.com The CBO estimates the federal government More...
Senators McCain, Graham and Ayotte say ‘This country needs a Commander-in-Chief, not a Campaigner-in-Chief’ concerning sequestration
U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) called out President Obama, who has “out on the stump” blaming Republicans for the upcoming budget sequestration, in More...
House suspends debt ceiling debate, adds ‘no budget, no pay’ clause
Republicans retreated on their previous demand that any debt limit increase be paired with equal spending cuts. photo Kmccoy House Speaker John Boehner said the GOP will continue to push its budget plan, which he More...
Fiscal Cliff Simplified
It’s that easy! When you sit down to balance your family checkbook, do you decide to get yourself out of debt by spending more money? Of course not! But this is what Obama and his Congress has done.. they More...
‘Tonight Show’ budget slashed, but NBC extends Jay Leno to 2014
NBC is finally confirming publicly that Jay Leno took a 50% pay cut — or $15 million on his $30 million salary. That helped NBC slash the Tonight Show‘s $100M budget by about 20%. Jay Leno in July 2008 More...
Gary Johnson criticizes both Obama and Romney for lack of plan to cut spending
Presidential candidate Gary Johnson released an internet advertisement this week that casts himself as a handyman that can fix America. Johnson hopes to strike a chord with independent thinkers who believe the two More...
CBO warns of 2013 recession, ‘financial cliff’ without budget deal
The CBO, Congressional Budget Office, warns that the US economy will shrink in 2013, as the fiscal analysis was released on Wednesday. Rough Road Sign public domain More specifically the CBO stated that simply allowing More...
US Agriculture Department rolls out plan to battle food stamp fraud
The Agriculture Department says it is going to impose tougher penalties on stores that violate food stamp rules and give states new tools to root out applicants who are ineligible for the benefit program that now More...
‘Disastrous’ Defense cuts looming as deadline nears
Without action from Washington, on January 2, 2013, the U.S. defense budget will undergo the most dramatic and massive cuts in its history. DOD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley The supercommittee More...
Massive federal spending, face it, is ‘ludicrous and cruel’
In his April 8th column, Paul Krugman takes his cue from the Democratic National Committee and writes yet another one of his partisan screeds on the Republicans’ federal budget proposals, calling it “ludicrous More...
Paul Ryan: The Republican Response to the State of the Union
Following is the prepared remarks of Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, who was expected to give the official Republican response to President Obama’s second State of the Union address, as released by More...
