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Deficit Woes: Society Security, Medicare, Medicaid

In conjunction with her recent post on Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to cut Medicare and scale back Social Security, redhairedgrrl@xanga recently sent us a separate article by Newsweek's Robert J. Samuelson about the…
A Better Health Care Strategy

The objection to nationalized health care is best summed up this way: We're taking one-sixth of America's economy and moving it from the private sector to Washington. How do we know they won't screw it up as bad as th…
Budget Problems: U.S. Awash In Debt

President Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget for 2011 spells out lots of red ink for our future. He inherited a $1.3 trillion dollar deficit (much of it “off the books” in the Bush administration), which represents 9% of our…
Legalizing Marijuana — A Financial Issue?

There are a lot of cases to be made for the legalization and/or decriminalization of marijuana, and many of them are financial, as reviewed on a recent blog post by The Wall Street Journal. Basically, there are two…
Highways vs. Subways — Which Deserves More Stimulus Bucks?

Wired has an interesting article about the use of federal stimulus money—in particular, whether we're spending too much on highways and not enough on subways and other methods of public transportation. According to…
Why Bernanke and Geithner Deserve the Boot

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy With Ben Bernanke's term as Chairman of the Federal Reserve expiring at the end on the month, the Senate will be voting on confirmation on his ap…
Mandatory Drug Testing for Welfare?

Today someone whom I am friends with on Facebook became a fan of "Making Drug Tests required to Get Welfare." In the past, my deep conservative roots would have made me very pleased with the idea. I mean, who wants…
Do We Need Another Cash for Clunkers?

DailyFinance recently reported that Ray LaHood, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, has been busy making remarks about last year's Cash for Clunkers program, calling it "the most widely successful program ever."…
Can We Privatize the Mail?

David Lazarus of the L.A. Times wrote up an insightful column about the fate of the U.S. Postal Service. For starters, the agency is losing money—it's $10.2 billion in debt to the government, and $3.8 billion of that…
NASA: A $18.7 Billion Investment

WalletPop has an interesting article up about NASA, and whether the government should continue to spend so many of our tax dollars on, well, extraterrestrial issues. NASA's budget for 2010 is a rather large $18.7 bill…