Posts Tagged ‘budget’
How are we going to pay for this budget?
Geithner does not know how to fund this budget!!
Read MoreShell Game
Call it slight of hand. The Obama budget has taken a spending to a whole new level … $3 trillion dollars, and a deficit that makes George Bush and the Republicans look like pikers, $1.3 to $1.7 trillion. So how does he expect to pay for it. He doesn’t. Jim Angle at Fox shows it’s…
Read MoreBig government getting bigger – Boehner warns
The Obama administration has dropped the new budget proposal on a few desks around Washington D.C. and John Boehner (R-Ohio) has released a statement that details ten fast facts on the titan of all budgets. From House Republican leader Boehner’s Web site, who by the way, has been doing a fairly good job getting the…
Read MoreFederal government spending, where to cut and trim
It’s been 16 years since President Clinton took office, and at the time he asked the public for suggestions on how to reduce the deficit. If I remember correctly, Al Gore was tasked to find inefficiencies and redundancies in government and squash them. It never happened. The federal budget has ballooned from about $1 trillion…
Read MoreLooking for your state refund… how about an IOU?
I’m note sure how to even comment on this one. From what I read, California went through a similar situation in 1992 where state workers – in lieu of a paycheck – got an IOU from the state and the employees were able to go to the bank and cash the IOU. Now, with more…
Read MoreCalifornia budget ballons 40 percent in four years – still running out of cash
Where have we heard this type of rhetoric before? A California state official is claiming the state is going to run out of cash in 60 days unless the legislature and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger get on the same page and make some changes.
Read MoreMedia describes Palin budget increase as cut
Slashed funding. Budget cuts. Reduction in needed services. Increased class sizes. Shorter library hours. All of these statements are code words used by the liberal left to scare the crap out of senior citizens, school parents and unions. If you don’t agree to tax increases, your precious services – that can only be provided by…
Read MoreWhat is the Cost of Educating Kids?
Quite frequently local municipalities provide data detailing how much money is spent per pupil for budget disclosure. But are the numbers we are provided the real cost of educating kids in the United States? It should be a pretty easy calculation, take the total amount of money spent to run the facility, pay teacher salaries…
Read MoreBusiness Survival Depends on Three Critical Success Factors
About two years ago I took a graduate-level class – jammed into four days – on business operations. Drilled into our minds were the critical success factors for any business – service, quality and cost. Since a co-worker is taking the same class this week, and a post I recently read on SigForum by author…
Read MoreWow – Bush Unveils $3.1 Trillion Budget for 2009
Can you believe this? Can you comprehend how much money one trillion dollars is? That’s 1,000 billion dollars. Now times that by more than three. For reference, in 2002 we broke the two trillion dollar mark. That means – no matter how you look at it – the federal government has grown almost 36 percent…
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