Category: big government

Why Are Blacks Still on Board With Biden?

Commentary New polling from Pew Research and from NY Times/Siena College, released a few days apart, cast similarly dismal pictures regarding the popularity of President Joe Biden. Overall approval for Biden from NY Times/Siena College stands at 33 percent and from Pew 37 percent. However, both polls show approval for the president much stronger than…


Inflation and a Probable Recession Are Eroding American’s Freedom: Stephen Moore

The Biden administration’s big spending and economic policies have caused massive inflation and a probable recession, eroding people’s freedom every day, said former White House economic adviser Stephen Moore. He said Americans must rise up to win back their constitutional rights. “The whole idea of the American Constitution was to really limit the spending and the…


How Government Uses Recessions to Expand Its Control: Stephen Moore

With a global recession predicted within the next 6–12 months (some say we’re already in one), we look at not only the financial hardship economic downturns bring, but also how they can often be used to expand the role of government in our lives. Stephen Moore, acclaimed economist and former economic adviser to the Trump White…


Inflation: Reagan and Trump Versus Carter and Biden

Commentary Americans suffering from rising prices and the highest inflation in 40 years need to demand the results Presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump gave them. They need to reject the policy failures of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden. The difference in economic outcomes is not theory or an ideological or political position. The…


Back to a Balanced Federal Budget

Commentary The Republican Study Committee has done a great service by developing a serious proposal for getting to a federal balanced budget within seven years. You can read it yourself here. RSC Chairman Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana and RSC Budget and Spending Task Force Chairman Rep. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma led the effort which…


Build Back Poorer, and Build Back Broke

Commentary President Joe Biden’s effort to “build back better” has degenerated into “build back poorer” for the American people and “build back broke” for the American government. With gasoline prices setting new record highs every week, the American people are becoming poorer. With the high cost of diesel fuel (up 70 percent over the last…


No Mob Rule, No Criminal Domination

Commentary Two patterns of destroying civilization are coming together to form a river of violence and intimidation that can destroy the Constitution, the rule of law, and the very basic elements of our free society. On the political front, there is a self-righteous fanaticism dominating the secular-religious intensity of the Left. This has convinced many…


Whipping Inflation—Then and Now

In 1974, when the inflation rate was 11.04 percent, President Gerald Ford came up with a slogan: “Whip Inflation Now.” WIN buttons were manufactured by the millions and people were asked to wear them to demonstrate grassroots solidarity to combat the economic scourge. The campaign was later described by Martin Crutsinger in an Associated Press story…


Governments Giveth and Taketh Away

Commentary The jobs report on May 6 seemed like good news (3.6 percent unemployment) until you look at the details: “The U.S. labor force shrank by 363,000 people in April from a month earlier, the Labor Department said Friday. The labor force participation rate, or the share of American adults working or looking for a…


An American Majority, Not a Republican Majority: Part 4—The Opportunity

Commentary I wrote this four-part series on creating an American majority, not a Republican majority for a reason. I am convinced the radicalism of the Big Government Socialist, woke politicians and their performance failures create a unique opportunity to propose a dramatically different future for our country. This future is based on different principles and…