Written March 2, 1991 Waste of “government” funds from the public purse is nothing new. Many people have come to take it for granted or resigned themselves to putting up with it. There is another drain on pocketbooks of the public at-large that many ordinary man-in-the-street types are not even aware of. I’m referring to […]
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Hooray For The Deficit!
It is a measure of the mindset of the congress that many give-away programs are referred to as “entitlements” and letting the taxpayers keep some of their own money is an “expenditure.”
National Energy Policy
The Persian Gulf mess has got the statists in Washington, D.C. calling once again for a National Energy Policy (NEP). It behooves responsible citizens then to consider just what such a policy might entail. For starters, any NEP should not rely too heavily on any one energy source. Diversity is the key here. Oil, coal, […]
Bigots Or Greedy Opportunists?
The stereotype is a tool, no, make that a weapon, of the narrow-minded – the bigot. Bigots don’t care about the qualities of individuals; they’d rather put everyone into nice neat categories based on some superficial characteristic. Such as branding all Arizonans racist.
Reality Check
The battle over a deficit-reducing federal budget (an oxymoron) is providing the American people with a much needed reality check. For years We The People have been electing a Republican president and a Democratically-controlled congress. We elect a congress that promises to give us more and better of everything and we elect a president that […]