A quick look at the three most popular posts from last week.

These days, it’s hard to turn anywhere without hearing about the country’s economic troubles – and Congress’s inability to fix them.

Pew and The National Journal asked adults how U.S. states should deal with their budget deficits. 43% favored cutting funding on transportation and road maintenance; 27% favored cutting funding on health services; 25% favored cutting spending on public safety; 22% favored cutting K-12 spending; and 39% favored raising taxes. How would you want your state [...]

Washington Post: Unemployment rate remains at 9.7 percent: “Economists had expected the snowstorms to have a bigger impact, but job losses were surprisingly mild in February as employers cut 36,000 jobs.” House passes $15B job-creation measure: “After stalling briefly, the Democrats’ jobs agenda regained momentum on Thursday as the House passed one measure designed to [...]

5) “According to the New York Post, White House budget director Peter Orszag announced his engagement…Of course, people were shocked that the White House has a budget director.” – Jay Leno 4) “President Obama said the federal government can no longer spend taxpayers’ money like it is monopoly money. Especially since monopoly money is now [...]

We’ve gotten a lot of questions about government spending since President Obama’s budget came out on February 1st.  One re-occurring question is the following: Haven’t spending on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and on homeland security been a major cause of our surging debt? There is no doubt that national security is expensive – [...]

Former U.S. presidents would not be amused with last week’s public opinion polls, which find intense public dissatisfaction with government.  People aren’t happy with either political party and feel like lawmakers in Washington are out of touch with their priorities. A Rasmussen poll found that 60 percent of likely voters don’t think either party understands [...]

In his fiscal 2011 budget released last week, President Obama targeted 126 programs to be completely shut down or have their budgets cut. While this proposal will only save an estimated $23 billion next year, it’s a start, and we applaud the President for taking this first step.  (Actually it’s his second step: in last [...]

Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to increase the debt limit by another 15 percent to $14.4 trillion. The debt limit was enacted in 1939 for the explicit purpose of reigning in government spending.  Yet it has been increased nearly 100 times since being implemented and is simply an impotent tool in discouraging borrowing, much [...]