Category archive: National Debt

Disturbed Democrat Voters Whine About ‘Terrorist’ Tea Partiers

By Chuck Roger • August 9th, 2011 12:00 am

By Chuck Rogér How can you be best described if you call for government to stop wasting money that belongs to taxpayers living and not yet born? What exactly are you if you insist that government spend no more than it takes in? What label most accurately becomes you if you want government to stop picking private [...]

Why Bother? Let It Fall

By Chuck Roger • August 8th, 2011 12:00 am

Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér America is fading, and the ruling class lacks the courage to stop it. Courage was more abundant in 1776 when a pompous monarch was confiscating the people’s wealth in order to live like a pompous monarch.  The people revolted.  Today, hundreds of arrogant elitists in three branches of [...]

Cobalt Blue Arrogance

By Chuck Roger • August 3rd, 2011 12:00 am

Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér From a state capitol that basks under surreally blue skies comes a consummate example of progressive smugness. In an installment of his Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper column pretentiously titled,  “Understanding Your World,” former U.S. Foreign Service officer and Time magazine correspondent William Stewart writes: Let us be [...]

Obama’s Deceit on the Debt Default Deadline

By Chuck Roger • July 25th, 2011 12:00 am

Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Knowingly stating a falsehood constitutes lying. Unintentionally misrepresenting reality displays a careless lack of knowledge. Our President appears to be engaged in a curious combination of both activities. Economist and Reason columnist Veronique de Rugy analyzes three debt “default” distortions being advanced by Barack Obama and his administration [...]

The Twisted Budgeting ‘Logic’ of an Obama Liberal

By Chuck Roger • July 22nd, 2011 12:00 am

Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér President Barack Obama believes that small businesses should pay for big government programs. Just ask the President’s Teasury secretary, Timothy Geithner. Pushed for an explanation of Obama’s insistence on raising taxes on families earning $250,000 or more (encompassing a large portion of businesses that could provide many jobs), [...]

Obama Ideology All the Way Down

By Chuck Roger • July 18th, 2011 12:00 am

Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér When your relatives publicly expose your horrifically indefensible thinking, it may be time to rethink your thinking. Milton Wolf, a cousin of Barack Obama, writes: The devastation caused by Obamanomics is now undeniable. According to Investors Business Daily, 2 million net private-sector jobs have been lost; unemployment has [...]

The Battle to Reduce Entitlements: Fight or Flight?

By Chuck Roger • May 17th, 2011 12:00 am

Originally in American Thinker, May 13, 2011 By Chuck Rogér Many Americans recognize but want to ignore a huge problem.  A new poll finds that 86 percent of us believe that Social Security and Medicare spending will create an economic crisis in ten to twenty years at most.  Yet only 31 percent of Americans want [...]

Why Don’t Republicans Want to Eliminate Farm Subsidies?

By Chuck Roger • April 14th, 2011 12:00 am

By Chuck Rogér Congressional Republicans claim that they want to cut spending. House Speaker John Boehner says, We’re listening to the people who sent us here to cut spending so we can grow our economy. As I’ve said from the beginning, our goal is to cut spending, not shut down the government. Senate Minority Leader [...]

Liberals, taxes, and spending: There are no coincidences

By Chuck Roger • March 24th, 2011 12:00 am

If you are a person who believes in self-reliance, accountability, and facing the consequences for decisions and actions, then you probably believe as 80% of Americans do, that taxpayers should not be penalized for Congress’s irresponsible behavior. But liberals? Liberals are another matter altogether. A recent Rasmussen poll shows that 20% of Americans are willing to [...]

The greediest politicians in history

By Chuck Roger • March 18th, 2011 12:00 am

Reflecting on the massive debt run up by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, I recently recalled something that I’d read in Thomas Sowell’s Intellectuals and Society. At the bottom of page 110, Sowell made the following assessment. The intelligentsia have led outraged outcries when oil companies’ profits rose, though the amount of profits in [...]

Ready or not, here’s the truth about America’s economic prospects

By Chuck Roger • August 30th, 2010 3:09 am

We’ve got to stop beating around the bush. Economically, America may be in a life-threatening situation and getting out of trouble is going to be not so fun. Monty, of Monty Pelerin’s World, paints the stark reality of the predicament in which we find ourselves. If the Government confiscated all the wealth in the private [...]

Gloomy Progressive’s Prescription for Eliminating the Middle Class

By Chuck Roger • August 25th, 2010 3:01 am

Originally in American Thinker, August 24, 2010. Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich is a progressive. On the Huffington Post, Reich — now a U.C. Berkeley public policy professor — proclaims that America’s middle class has been in “decline.” The professor writes that since the 1980s, “the economy has made the rich far richer without [...]

America’s possible Greek tragedy

By Chuck Roger • May 17th, 2010 9:08 pm

America’s exceptionalism and spirit of liberty may bolster us against turning into Greece, but will not prevent us from becoming very Greek indeed. Writing at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Vincent and Carmen Reinhart explain “Five Myths about the European Debt Crisis.” First, Greece’s predicament is no new phenomenon. It’s easy to [...]

Tell us the truth

By Chuck Roger • March 10th, 2010 4:22 am

Originally in American Thinker, March 8, 2010. In America, we are beginning to sense a nasty reality that President Obama must acknowledge: Our worst economic problems lie ahead, and fixing those problems is going to hurt — plenty. Our federal government now runs a con game that promises people a level of financial security impossible [...]

America, Greek style

By Chuck Roger • February 17th, 2010 3:54 am

Greece now owes more in loan repayments than the value of the country’s entire annual output. The Greeks have gone so hog-wild on socialistic entitlement spending that government debt owed to public lenders stands at 121 percent of 2010 gross domestic product. In America, the Obama administration’s projections show that our federal debt will exceed [...]

Liberalonomics 101

By Chuck Roger • February 18th, 2009 4:28 am

Remember when you were 17? You blew off anybody who knew more about the world than you knew. Unblocking those adolescent eyes and ears was vital to growing up. But there are people who see no need for learning. The naturally brilliant ignore anything that contradicts their natural brilliance. Take Democrat Senator Charles Schumer. He refers [...]