Correspondence and commentary on current events.
Details about the huge amnesty to be included in the budget reconciliation bill are out, after being passed by the House Judiciary Committee. It’s every bit as bad as I feared, including amnesty for most of the illegal aliens in the U.S.
Continue readingA devastating blow to our solvency
Please oppose the 1,500-page, trillion-dollar, sequester-scrapping secret spending bill that is coming up for a vote. We sent you to Washington because you promised fiscal responsibility and accountability. Spending ever-more on an ever-increasing Federal government provides neither.
Continue reading Oppose omnibus spending bill
By Kevin D. Williamson
Here’s the number to keep in mind: $763 billion.
If enacted, Barack Obama’s latest budget would mean that in just ten years, interest payments alone on the national debt would begin pushing the trillion-dollar mark: $763 billion a year by 2023. That may be a rosy estimate: It assumes that interest rates, currently near historic lows, do not rise a great deal over the next ten years as the Treasury continues to pile up new debt. If interest rates do climb a bit higher — not even to their historical average, but higher than they have been of late — then those interest payments easily could be more than $1 trillion a year.
Continue reading The One Number You Need to Know in O’s Budget
President Obama released his 2014 budget more than 60 days late. Not surprisingly, it doesn’t even attempt to balance the budget — now or in the future. Heritage.org put together this handy infographic on Obama’s budget to help you understand what’s in it and how it exposes the President’s worldview.
Continue reading Obama’s budget in one infographic