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Democrats don’t grasp the vision
The U.S. government has run up more than $4 trillion in debt. About $1 trillion was accumulated during the nation’s first 200 years, the rest since 1980. Despite the Clinton administration’s claims about “reducing the deficit,” the Kerry-Danforth Commission report on entitlements and tax reform — released last month — showed that America’s debt is…
Tales for telling again and again
“There are no cats in America, and the street are paved with cheese”. Thanks to the artistic genius of Steven Speilberg, the song containing these words filled the mousehole of the Mousekewitz family in Russia late in the 19th century. Though persecuted and with few freedoms, the family had hope, and they dreamed of a…
Imperial Congress costs us a fortune
The budget mess in Washington continues, and there are several schools of thought on how we got into it in the first place. One is the divided government theory. Americans are ticket-splitters on election day, resulting in tension and sometimes deadlocked Democratic-controlled Congress and a Republican president. Others, Jeffersonians who favor citizen government, pin the…