With all the chest thumping over “runaway spending” and the growing deficit, you would think the party that claims to be the fiscal hawks would look at cutting spending in all areas of the budget. Well that’s not the case. It turns out the Republicans want to add an additional $17 billion to the defense […]
That is how much a new healthcare proposal would cost – one that would cover 97% of the country: The plan carries a 10-year price tag of slightly over $600 billion, and would lead toward an estimated 97 percent of all Americans having coverage, according to the Congressional Budget Office, Sens. Edward M. Kennedy and […]
Venezuela is a country whose defense budget is probably 1/600th of the United States’. They own Citgo. It’s unlikely that as a consequence of me shaking hands or having a polite conversation with Mr. Chavez that we are endangering the strategic interests of the United States. I don’t think anybody can find any evidence that […]
When Democrats successfully got the ANWR provision stripped from the defense budget on Wednesday, Republicans decided to punish the poor people in the country by hurting their federal assistance with rising heating prices. This is brought up by a newpress release issued by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorites, a non-partisan research group: WASHINGTON, […]