Archive for the ‘Spending’ Category

Pennsylvania State Debt 2002 To This Year: 40% Increase

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Under Governor Rendell, total state general obligation debt outstanding has increased from $6.8 billion to a projected $9.5 billion with his 2009-10 budget proposal, a 40% increase in seven years.  

Lobbyist Expenses Wasteful, Critics Say

Monday, February 8th, 2010

A Failure of Common Sense  The Taxpayer pays the government $4,000,000 for government to lobby government for taxpayer money.   When common sense dies, the community dies. The idiocy of the political class is imposed by force on all of us.    

Unsustainable Debt

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Entrepreneurial Investors Daily says US debt “unsustainable” and this does not include Entitlements for Medicare Medicaid and Social Security. “In just the last year alone, according to a report this week from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), total U.S. public debt has jumped to $7.6 trillion, or ...

Time to Panic about the Debt

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

JOBS JOBS JOBS (and IRAN) are the problems which confront us. More Debt, individually or governmentally, NOT  the Solution. Even the liberal Washington Post is starting to panic about the national Debt.  The Austrian Economists have been panicking for some time. WaPo draws our attention to the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform. ...

Miracles Do Happen – Democrats Vote to Cut Costs of Government

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Pennsylvania House votes to cut cost of newspaper legal ads by 25%  School districts, government bodies would save. Papers would lose an estimated $5 million. (Bob’s comment – taxpayers save $5 million)