Budget and Deficit

When low-information voters put Barack Obama in the White House, they provided him with a type of credit card—drawn on the U.S. Treasury, otherwise known as taxpayers. Yet for the past seven years the press has been singularly uninterested in how honest and responsible Obama has been with that financial trust.

The budget deal perpetuates the Social Security trust fund fiction by borrowing from one trust fund that has loaned its assets for IOUs to save another trust fund which has spent its IOUs. 

The budget sequester had a short but meaningful life.  It successfully helped to control federal spending, which is why Democrats and many Republicans had to snuff it out.

Removing the ban on U.S. crude oil exports is one sure way to dramatically lower the balance of trade deficit for years to come.

President Obama says he will veto any budget that doesn't bust the sequester spending caps, and at least some Republicans are willing to do just that.

The Republican leadership promised to return to regular order but failed miserably, making many wonder of the House speaker an Senate majority leader are up to the job.

Hillary Clinton wants to throw $350 billion at higher education to buy votes, er, make college more affordable. But we have pumped billions of dollars in federal money to higher education and it has only gotten more expensive.

The Americans with Disabilities Act seems to have been a big success at increasing the disabled's access to workplaces, buildings and transportation. So why has the number of Americans receiving disability income grown so dramatically since the ADA passed? 

Lawmakers scrambling to find funding for the federal Highway Fund should look to using all of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), not just 100 million barrels, as the Senate is proposing.

President Obama spoke at the White House Conference on Aging, but what's really getting old is having to "truth-check" all of his claims.