Do we need any more evidence that the status quo in Washington D.C. is breaking our nation. If you do, how about the fact that your audacious lawmakers just bailed themselves out to the tune of $2.4 million more of our tax dollars in the form of a “cost-of-living” raise? [...]

Worldview Thought for the Day
As the drumbeat of government bailout continues, we march further away from bailing out the very people who are most likely to be able to end the current economic downturn and ensure future prosperity for us all. While we allow for government intervention in private markets and tax-payer funded buyouts of [...]

This afternoon, the House of Representatives will vote again on a revised version of the Wall Street bailout bill they defeated Friday. I don’t know about you, but I hate having to do the same work twice.
There has been a lot of talk recently in Washington and around the country about lipstick and pigs, a [...]

If one only judged by the media frenzy, one might conclude that the world ended sometime this afternoon when 228 brave representatives listened to their constituents and their own consciences and voted against the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, better known as the Wall Street bailout. Instead, while the economy is rough and times are tough for some people, we are all still here and without a $700 billion dollar debt against our futures. [...]

I grant that I am not an economist, but it seems to me that, with the combination of the projected federal budget, the current federal deficit, and the proposed Wall Street bailout plan, the federal government will control more than 25 percent of the gross domestic product if the bailout plan passes. More correctly, the federal government will split that control with foreign governments who own a substantial share of our government’s debt. [...]