Cutting the budget.
In a nation burdened with $20 trillion in debt, a crumbling infrastructure and a depleted military, it may be time to find a way to live without things like the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Golfing over governing.
More than two months late, the president has at last complied with the law and submitted a budget. It is, as we have come to expect, an ideological document that is untethered entirely from actual governing.
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Entitlement is just a politician word for dependency.
The more you convince people to take goodies from the government rather than provide for themselves, the more votes you can count on come election day.
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Hats off to Paul Ryan.
House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan went to a Washington, D.C. tattoo parlor and had a giant target tattooed on his forehead. Or so it is going to seem in the coming weeks.
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Every friday morning at 7:53.
Author’s Note
When I was a young man trying to break in to the radio business, one of the biggest radio stations in the country was Dallas's KLIF 1190 AM.
The station was owned by broadcasting pioneer Gordon McLendon. McLendon was known for his sharply-written editorials. Those editorials were, however, a one-way street. There was no practical way for the listener to respond.
But that is no longer the case. With the the advent of the Internet, lectures have turned into dialogues.
That's my hope for this website. I say what's on my mind. You respond by saying what's on yours.
That's why we call it You Tell Me.