Besides raising the retirement age for full Social Security benefits to 70 for people now 50 or younger, Mr. Boehner suggested curbing benefit growth by tying cost-of-living increases to the consumer price index rather than growth in wages, and providing benefits only to those who need them.
“If you have substantial non-Social Security income while you're [...]
Replacing the Old Guard | RedState.
The list below shows those who put buying votes ahead of doing what’s right. They no longer deserve to hold their respective offices. It’s up to you, citizens, to fire them if you wish to regain control of your government and your money. The decision is yours. Now make it.
Fifteen [...]
Fact Sheet: America’s Uninsured.
Fact: Nearly 10 million (9.7) of the 45.7 million uninsured are “not a citizen.” That makes every media claim of uninsured Americans higher than 35.9 million is wrong.
Myth: The 40 million to 50 million uninsured cannot afford health insurance.
Fact: More than 17 million of the uninsured make at least $50,000 [...]
US government seeks to rein in executive pay – Yahoo Finance.
Democrats and administration officials agreed that companies across the private sector need to adjust compensation practices to avoid damaging the economy.
Gene Sperling, a counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, said administration guidelines call on all publicly held companies to link compensation to long-term performance, not [...]
President Obama is really abusing his power and looking more and more like a Putin than an American President:
If President Obama didn’t have enough on his plate already, he’s now thrust himself into the middle of a statewide race that has sparked growing resentment among some New York Democrats.
Sens. [...]
McCain Slams Obama Cap-and-Trade Climate Change Proposal
I don’t understand as much about this proposal as I’d like, but from what I can tell McCain is at least partially right on it. I don’t think that any type of cap and trade system is necessary for one thing, but for another reasonable.
It gets back to the [...]
It’s like a teenage girl with a credit card at the mall. Not fully thinking through the consequences of irrational spending.
Brian Reidl, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, said all the spending may lead a Democratic-controlled Congress to “overreach and create expensive, unworkable new programs that will [...]
County moves against illegal immigration | GreenvilleOnline.com | The Greenville News.
Greenville County may shut down businesses that knowingly hire illegal immigrants under an ordinance adopted by County Council on Tuesday night.
It’s about time that local governments began forcing small businesses to follow the rules. Now if only the state would do the same there wouldn’t [...]
I guess it’s just not worth it to prevent an attack on LA, though.
Admiral Blair’s assessment that the interrogation methods did produce important information was deleted from a condensed version of his memo released to the media last Thursday. Also deleted was a line in which he empathized with his predecessors who originally approved some [...]
Sources: Chrysler Turned Down Government Loan Over Limits on Executive Pay.
I’m not buying what Chrysler is saying. If you have an opportunity to borrow as a lower rate, especially if you are nearing bankruptcy, you are irresponsible if you don’t take it. To say that you don’t need the money right now, but that you [...]