Analysis: President Obama’s FY 2012 Budget Proposal
During his 2008 campaign, President Barack Obama pledged to make the eradication of out-of-control spending his foremost priority upon being elected. But he has failed to follow through with this promise: his highly-anticipated 2012 budget, released this week, reneged on this pledge. Even as the president made it a point to criticize the Wisconsin state [...]
President Obama’s Budget Does Nothing to Address Deficit
President Barack Obama spearheaded the expansion of the U.S. federal budget by $700 billion in his first two years. Now, in his third year, he seems to think highly of his ability to reduce it by $100 billion. The president’s proposed budget does nothing “to pay down debt or ever come close to balancing it,” says Senator Jeff Sessions, [...]
Analysis of Governor Walker’s State of the State Address
In his first State of the State Address as Wisconsin’s governor last week, Scott Walker reiterated his panoply of campaign promises and pledged to make job creation, business development, balancing the budget, and restoring economic prosperity his foremost priorities in the current legislative session. Even though Governor Walker’s speech lacked much on these issues, he [...]
A Response to President Obama’s Domestic Agenda
Last night, President Barack Obama addressed the nation on the state of our Union. Like most of his predecessors, President Obama observed that the Union is strong. Many on both sides of the aisle, however, are in agreement with Gerald Ford’s statement in his 1974 State of the Union Address that the nation is in [...]
