Posts Tagged ‘Heritage Foundation’
by Matt Lacy – The USDA is continuing its program of encouraging greater numbers of Americans to sign up for food stamps with a new program aimed at Spanish speaking people. During the Republican presidential primary season, Newt Gingrich was criticized for referring to Obama as the “food stamp president.” While [...]
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by Jack Minor – New K-12 science standards have been introduced with an eye more on depth than breadth and that has caused some to be concerned. Organizers are hopeful that most, if not all, states will adopt these standards. But they admit from the start that the issues of global-warming and evolution will [...]
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by Matt Lacy – While much of the reporting critical of the president’s health care plan has focused on the individual mandate, The Heritage Foundation has issued a new report called “The 10 terrible provisions of Obama care that you may not have heard of.” Despite a massive PR campaign by the administration, polls consistently [...]
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by Matt Lacy – An expert on Communist China says the United States could be making a grave mistake by cutting back on defense spending while China is doing just the opposite. Beijing recently announced a new defense budget of approximately $106 billion, which equates to an 11.2-percent increase. Cheng says this increase coupled with [...]
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Under debt limit agreement, increase automatic unless Congress votes “no” to requestby Peter Grady – Just months after Congress and the President went through a difficult fight over raising the debt limit, Obama is asking to raise the limit by another $1.2 trillion. Last summer, Republican members of the house who voted against raising the [...]
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by Jack Minor While School District 6 focuses on budget cuts, another statistic has come out that may cause alarm. A government report says the vast majority of all public schools are failing. U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, told the House Committee on Education and the Workforce in March that, under existing criteria, 82 [...]
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Vote on raising limit will determine scorecard for entire year, all or nothing by Jack Minor With rising gas prices taking more money out of the family budget, many economists are saying the problem is the devaluing of the dollar caused by excessive government debt. Currently the federal debt limit is $14 trillion according to [...]
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by Jack Minor Cory Gardner is among a growing list of Republicans in the house who oppose the federal government’s adding debt until its financial affairs are in order. Government waste and spending was one of the key reasons Republicans swept control of the House in November. Government spending is now at a point [...]
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