Do you know your net worth? If you add up all your assets (cash, property, etc) and subtract all your liabilities (debts), do you know what you are worth? As a person, your net worth on paper doesn’t really account for your intangibles, like personality, education, or dashing good looks. Just your value if you sold […]
When is $100 billion not enough?
March 18, 2011 by Daniel Burton
When it’s non-security discretionary spending cuts from the budget. That’s when. Then it’s just not solving the problem. It’s pandering for the press and for constituents. The problem, and all the talk Washington, is the deficit and getting it back to a manageable level. Republicans in an effort to keep campaign promises and reduce the deficit, are […]
Filed Under: Entitlement Reform Tagged With: Congressional Budget Office, Discretionary spending, entitlement reform, Federal Budget, federal deficit, Medicaid, Medicare, Paul Ryan, postaday2011, Social Security
Welfare State: Handouts Make Up One-Third of U.S. Wages – CNBC
March 8, 2011 by Daniel Burton
1 in 3 of us is on the government dole: Even as the economy has recovered, social welfare benefits make up 35 percent of wages and salaries this year, up from 21 percent in 2000 and 10 percent in 1960, according to TrimTabs Investment Research using Bureau of Economic Analysis data. “The U.S. economy has […]
Filed Under: Entitlement Reform, Government Tagged With: CNBC, Economic, entitlement reform, government dole, postaday2011, Poverty, Social Sciences, TrimTabs Investment Research, Welfare, Welfare state
Killing the golden goose in Wisconsin
February 23, 2011 by Daniel Burton
Greed: what is it good for? In my other life, I play a member of one of the major political parties, and I regularly engage in issues, campaigns, and debates on a partisan level. In all of my activities, however, I try to maintain a level of civility that encourages healthy debate and discussion that allows […]
Filed Under: Entitlement Reform, Politics Tagged With: Collective bargaining, Dan Liljenquist, employment, greed, Illinois, Pension Reform, postaday2011, reality is not negotiable, Reason Foundation, Republicans, Scott Walker, State legislature (United States), Trade union, Union dues, unions, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Senate
The Human Cost of Ignoring Medicaid Reform
February 9, 2011 by Daniel Burton
One of the critiques that my left leaning friends often level at the political right is that Republicans are cold and heartless. Republicans are the champions of big business and soulless capitalists, they say. They don’t care about the poor, the elderly, or the weak of society. It may be a valid critique, if a […]
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