Showing posts with label Government Spending. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Government Spending. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

As humanity evolves, technological advances improve our lives

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Commentary by James Shott As humans and technology evolve, new ideas, products and improving processes make our lives fuller and ea...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Ominous omnibus: There are many problems with the spending bill

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Commentary by James Shott Last Friday Congress passed the omnibus spending bill, avoiding a government shutdown when current funding expir...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

America’s tendency toward over-spending leading to catastrophe

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Commentary by James Shott Many years ago Beatle John Lennon compared America to Rome. Some interpreted his statement as being complimenta...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Dangerous words: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”

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Our federal government, originally designed as small and limited, has grown to be humongous and infinite. That pro...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Taking a look at how green energy is working in Europe and America

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As the United States grapples with conflicting ideas about whether and to what extent man causes global climate change, the zealous movem...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

The election of 2014 is over. What did we learn? Where do we go?

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Last week’s mid-term election results surprised almost everyone in some way. Republicans won control of the US Senate, increased their major...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

So, the Republicans decreased funding for the CDC’s Ebola research

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Commentary by James Shott An ad produced and being run by the Agenda Project Action Fund says Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Government is a poor mechanism for correcting societal problems

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Commentary by James Shott Most Americans think that helping truly needy people, whether they live here or in some other country, is a wor...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Forty years after Roe v. Wade, abortion is still a national disgrace

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Commentary by James Shott An abortion-related event occurred last week, and if you were paying close attention to the news, you might have...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

As the New Year begins, government’s policies are still failing us

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Commentary by James Shott As the economic non-recovery crawls into 2014, the “good news” on the jobs front – that the unemployment rate dr...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

How many of America’s “poor” are like this lady and her husband?

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The way that many welfare recipients think was revealed in a call to a radio talk show on KLBJ-AM in Austin, Texas. Lucy, a 32 year-old mar...