All Posts Tagged With: "budget"

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Is Ten Percent Too Much For Health Care?

President Obama is having his fourth news conference as I type.  He is suggesting health care will cost us ten percent of our national budget if we do not gain control over costs.  Is that a bad thing?  How do we measure the health of our population against other priorities?
When President Eisenhower left office in [...]

23Jun2009 | Ohg Rea Tone | 1 comment | Continued
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Mr. Gates Goes to Washington (Again)

Yesterday, Secretary Gates took his place in the new administration as an agent for change and an advocate for a more responsible approach to our defense budget. Strangely enough, the supposed champions of fiscal responsibility have been the first to cry foul.

7Apr2009 | bryan | 0 comments | Continued
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Economic Speculating

Most of us admit that we do not understand the current economic crisis.  But there are some simple principles at work.  Everyone who has run a household for ten years understands clearly that they cannot sustain living on credit cards.
The key word in setting policy, or planning a budget, is ’sustainable.’  Can the policy or [...]

2Dec2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
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Obama and Sustainable Solutions

President Elect Obama must govern from the center if he is to have a lasting legacy.  What does this mean?  Simply put, solutions to problems must be sustainable over time.  Solutions which are overturned with changes of political party are not useful or productive.  Legacies are built on centrist resolutions to problems.
Let’s look at a [...]

6Nov2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
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Bush – War is good for the Economy

Son,
I am in stunned disbelief.  Our country is spending over 10 Billion dollars a month on the  war in Iraq and President Bush thinks this is a good thing.
I will let him speak for himself.

Imagine what 10 Billion dollars a month would do for America’s roads and bridges and our sewer systems,  not to mention [...]

19Feb2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 1 comment | Continued
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2008 Resolutions to save money

Son,
Budget, budget, budget.  Plan, plan, plan.  Then execute the planned budget with resolve.  There are some general rules – and some specifics.  For someone with no plan – plan.  For someone with a plan, expand the plan.
But why save – what is the purpose?  There are many reasons – retirement, security, education of children… But [...]

1Jan2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 1 comment | Continued

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