by altha-admin | Nov 10, 2011 | Articles
Thomas Jefferson did it.Richard Nixon did it, too, but Congress took him to court.If Nixon had not been weighed down with the Watergate scandal, he could have taken Congress to court for unconstitutional appropriations.Much of what Congress outlays is unacceptable,...
by altha-admin | Nov 10, 2011 | Articles
A line-item veto: President Bill Clinton possessed that power for the first two years that he was in office. He lopped off about two billion dollars from one billion, although such a sum was a mere rounding error then, and now it would be a bare smudge. The Supreme...
by altha-admin | Nov 10, 2011 | Articles
With all the executive czars that President Obama has appointed during his brief tenure in office, why not a budget-reform czar, one who can make the necessary cuts and take all the inevitable blame that will follow?Whoever the next chief executive will be, we need a...
by altha-admin | Nov 10, 2011 | Articles
The Supercommittee was established by Congress to dump the necessary yet unpopular responsibility of cutting costs and raising revenue.Now, the Supercommittee is at an impasse, unable to bring two sides together on compromising debt reduction.Democrats and liberals...
by altha-admin | Nov 10, 2011 | Articles
The Pew Hispanic Center factored in a different set of metrics in order to calculate the rate of poverty among Hispanics.Using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), the recent survey took into accountmedical expenses, tax credits and government benefits.According to...
