debt

Reader Input: The sequester must be upheld

Many members of Congress, the president and special interest groups and cronies who feed off of American families want us to believe that obeying their own sequester law will force ...

Things political reader knows

I would like to respond to Mark Jensen’s comment that I am uninformed (“Blame the Grand Old Party,” Reader Input, Aug. 21). That is most certainly not the case. I ...

Be careful what you wish for

Response to Dee Nann, Christian Valley, (“Bring back our country,” Reader Input, June 19).You say you want your country back? Like, how far back? Or, back from what exa ...

Don’t mire our future in debt

Pretend this family is our U.S. Government. Each $1,000 owed equals one trillion ($1,000,000,000,000). The bank is the national debt. A part-time job is like a tax hike. The good ...

Obama mires US in more debt

This week President Obama released his fiscal year 2013 budget proposal. The president’s budget includes the largest and most irresponsible government spending spree in history a ...

USA past its prime

As a leading edge baby boomer I realize that I was born at the pefect time in history. For my generation opportunity abounded and we were on the verge of an exciting new worldd in ...

Debt numbers are frightening

Some people like the (Bob and Ginny) Mocks who recently wrote in support of (Barack) Obama just do not understand that the leadership provided by the president has very nearly bank ...

In search of credible leader

Wow — we all dodged a bullet when Congress finally started working together and resolved this debt limit crisis that was created by House Republicans. However, when push came to ...

Roll back the Bush tax cuts

Back in the (Bill) Clinton days, before the “Bush era tax cuts” as they’re called, we had a budget surplus and were actually reducing the amount of our national debt. Now we ...

Where was tea party back in the day?

It’s obvious that Congress is not going to step up to the plate and fix the national debt. For those of us sitting on the sidelines, it boils down to “choose your own poison” ...