Tag Archives: Deficits

Senate Democrats finally have a budget plan, and boy it stinks

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Doug Gibson

One should be happy that Senate Democrats have produced a budget plan. After all, it’s been a few years since that responsibility was fulfilled. Earlier this month, one was finally unveiled by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. Simply stated, the plan … Read More

Tagged Debt, Deficits, Democratic Senate budget plan, Rep. Paul Ryan, Republican budget plan, Sen. Patty Murray, The Political Surf

Week of sequester, Rand Paul might cause upheaval to the political norm

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Doug Gibson

This has been a big week in politics. Two events occurred that have a strong potential to disrupt the political norm and effect major changes. The first was the collective public yawn over the sequester. The Obama administration, and its … Read More

Tagged Debt, Deficits, Drone strikes, Federal Reserve, Filibuster, John Brennan, President Barack Obama, Sen. Rand Paul, Sequester, The Political Surf, U.S. Senate

Obama beats the GOP on budget-battle manure spreading

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Doug Gibson

No side is covering themselves with glory in the current fiscal cliff negotiations, but Republicans are far more honest with their proposal than President Obama is with his. The president is really stinking up negotiations with budget-battle manure. Obama’s plan, … Read More

Tagged Budget debt, Budget negotiations, Deficits, Democratic Party, Fiscal cliff, President Barack Obama, Republican Party, Speaker John Boehner, The Political Surf

Debate over public workers unions is about sustainability

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Doug Gibson

President Barack Obama is not going to waste political capital joining progressives in protesting the loss of benefits and collective bargaining for most public employees unions in Wisconsin. Obama won’t act like this, or this. The president must understand that the debate … Read More

Tagged Calif., Collective bargaining, Deficits, Gov. Scott Walker, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, President Barack Obama, Private sector workers, Public unions, Retirement plans, San Diego, San Jose, Sustainability, The Political Surf, Union benefits, Wisconsin

Religious left: Jesus frowns on Paul Ryan, deficit reduction

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Doug Gibson

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as several dozen other leftist Catholic clergy, have decided that Jesus Christ does not approve of GOP Rep. Paul Ryan’s 10-year deficit reduction plan. According to these left-wing heirs to the previous … Read More

Tagged Balanced budgets, Deficits, Jesus, Left-wing moralism, Moral Majority, Rep. Paul Ryan, The Political Surf, U.S. Catholic Bishops

Obama, Democrats want to tether middle class to more reliance on government

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Doug Gibson

The president of hope and change had some harsh words for the only serious budget proposal out there. He called Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan, which outlines a fiscal austerity plan that includes providing more budget autonomy to states, “social … Read More

Tagged Deficits, Entitlements, Medicaid, Medicare, Middle Class, President Barack Obama, Rep. Paul Ryan, Ryan budget plan, Senate Democrats, The Political Surf, U.S. budget

Want free stuff, vote for the other guy is the theme of Campaign 2012

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Doug Gibson

On a campaign swing last week, Mitt Romney offered to voters a clear comparison between him and President Barack Obama. “If you’re looking for free stuff you don’t have to pay for, vote for the other guy,” Romney told a young … Read More

Tagged 2012 presidential race, Deficits, Economic violence, Greece, Mitt Romney, President Barack Obama, The Political Surf

Why Republicans are not budging on debt ceiling

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Doug Gibson

There’s a valuable column from MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough today in the Politico (read) Within its critique of hyperbolic media criticism of congressional Republicans, it gets to the heart of why Republicans in Congress are determined to have a showdown with … Read More

Tagged Debt ceiling debate, Deficits, Joe Scarborough, Politico, President Obama, Republican Congress, Republican Party, The Political Surf

The deficit dilemma: government benefits have become property rights

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Doug Gibson

Robert Samuelson of the Washington Post has written an excellent analysis of our spending and deficit dilemma. In the column,”Supersized government,” he notes why it is so hard to find the public — or political — will to cut benefits and government … Read More

Tagged benefits, Deficits, New morality, Robert Samuelson, Scared politicians, The Political Surf

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