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Relevance Score: 2.004 2011-07-16 16:06:15
Albert Einstein defined the term insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Conversely, could insanity also be defined as expecting the same results but doing completely different things over and over again? Peter Ferrara wrote an Op Ed in the Wall Street Journal February ...
Relevance Score: 1.851 2012-04-10 12:01:25
Only in Washington can 2+2=7. A new study being released by Charles Blahous, Republican member of the board that oversees Medicare financing, finds that the new health-care law will add anywhere from $340-$540 billion to the deficit instead of controling costs as it was sold to do. How can that happen? Federal government ...
Relevance Score: 1.527 2012-04-16 11:14:30
Opportunity Cost - The cost of an alternative that must be forgone in order to pursue a certain action. Throughout our lives, we as individuals have choices to make. Both big and small. Whether we want yogurt or pancakes for breakfast? Whether to study for the economics final or go out ...
Relevance Score: 1.477 2011-08-29 14:50:40
We all know that the federal budget is out of control We know that the debt, which has reached a number far too large for most of us to easily comprehend, can not continue to rise without catastrophic results. We know that our government can not continue to operate as ...
Relevance Score: 1.411 2010-09-25 18:55:17
Taxpayers Against Earmarks was not surprised to find that a recent study by Bankrupting America found that 71% say government spending is too high.
Relevance Score: 1.379 2011-12-07 17:50:42
Whip Kevin McCarthy and Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam discussed in a recent National Review OpEd the cost of the overwhelming volume of proposed regulations coming out of Washington and why the bipartisan REINS Act, which passed today 241 to 184, is critical for jobs creation. It's not a question of ...
Relevance Score: 1.374 2011-03-04 02:30:53
I stuck my head out the back door and took a desperate gulp of fresh bay air. Holding my breath, I knelt back down on the newspaper spread on my kitchen floor and willed myself not to retch. With latex gloved hands and a tiny spork, I ladled the foul ...
Relevance Score: 1.360 2012-09-08 09:38:42
By Erik Wasson - 09/07/12 01:37 PM ET The Hill The White House on Friday said it will miss the legal deadline for delivering a report to Congress on the spending cuts from sequestration that are scheduled to take effect in 2013. Spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Air Force One that the ...
Relevance Score: 1.330 2012-10-19 08:29:37
This is simply mind-boggling. Roughly 100 million people—one-third of the U.S. population—receive aid from at least one means-tested welfare program each month. Average benefits come to around $9,000 per recipient. If converted to cash, means-tested welfare spending is more than five times the amount needed to eliminate all poverty in the ...
Relevance Score: 1.256 2010-08-25 13:23:37
In this video, Reason.tv and Citizens Against Government Waste have again unearthed a startling waste of taxpayer money, this time by Rep. Geoff Davis of Kentucky.