TAXES: Republicans for increasing U.S. debt
Re: “House GOP leaders plan summer tax cut vote” (TNT, 5-26). The House Republicans plan to vote this summer on extending the Bush tax cuts, due to expire at the end of 2012. By doing so, they are for...
View ArticleELECTION: Is this what TNT is endorsing?
Re: “With sobered expectations, Obama for president” (editorial, 10-24). Is this what The News Tribune endorses for America? • An unemployment rate of nearly 8 percent today, when we were promised the...
View ArticleFISCAL CLIFF: Boehner sells out future generations
House Speaker John Boehner has removed four fiscally conservative Representatives (i.e., Representatives who had the temerity to take the Republican mantra of “smaller government” to heart) from the...
View ArticleECONOMY: No Band-Aids for growing deficit
I am actually worried that the politicians will cut a deal which keeps in place the growing deficit and the behemoth government with the Department of Redundancy Department and the many other wasteful...
View ArticleCONGRESS: Very little leadership being shown
So our congressional “leaders” have reached a compromise to avoid the fiscal cliff. Now they are patting themselves on the back for “getting the job done.” But wait a minute, the Congressional Budget...
View ArticleOBAMA: Reality reflects campaign distortions
Barack Obama continues to say he wants to reduce the deficit while continuing to do nothing but increase it. Yet no one in the media questions him except for one cable network. Obama campaigned on more...
View ArticleDEBT: Norm Dicks’ perk for bringing home the pork
Re: “Rep. Dicks says his six-figure pension is fair (TNT, 2-21). Norm Dicks has been a congressman for 36 years, and in this time the federal debt has ballooned to an unbelievable amount – from $620...
View ArticleDEBT: Our nation’s sinkhole is growing
For many years under the house at 240 Faithway Drive in Seffner, Fla., a gigantic sinkhole was forming. As other sinkholes in Florida, it got bigger and bigger every year. No one knew about the problem...
View ArticleDEFICIT: Krugman being dishonest about problem
Re: “We’re cheating our children, but it’s not about the deficit” (Paul Krugman column,3-31). Krugman dismisses concern of a national debt growing at about $4 billion per day by proclaiming there is no...
View ArticleNSA: How many is too many?
In a recent interview, President Obama stated that the number of individual court orders issued to wiretap private citizens’ phone numbers was surprisingly small. Compared to what? The federal debt is...
View ArticleDEBT: Present course is unsustainable
Our government reached another milestone under the Obama administration. The national debt has soared over the $17 trillion mark and increasing at an astonishing rate. The debt soared $328 billion last...
View ArticleDEBT: The new normal?
Eugene Robinson writes a lot of insightful material, and today’s column (TNT, 10-22) is no different. Exhorting the federal government to focus on growth rather than debt, he writes that the national...
View ArticleBUDGET: Rein in spending – or else
Twenty years ago, America’s national debt was a little more than $4 trillion. Now it is $17 trillion, and by the year 2020 the interest on the debt will probably be $1 trillion a year. The root of the...
View ArticleDEBT: Congress should heed former senator’s words
If only our congressional team would take heed of retired Sen. Alan Simpson’s words Tuesday on CNBC: “Play small-ball and 10 to 15 years from now your country will be sucking canal water, and that’s...
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