Plan B fails as Conservatives win
By: Chet Nichols (Diary) | December 21st at 01:09 PM |
This week, House Republicans put together a bill aimed at preventing America from going over the Fiscal Cliff, or so it seemed. Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), with the help of Eric Cantor (R-VA) put together a proposal known as “Plan B” that would temporarily replace automatic sequestration cuts and raise taxes on Americans making more than $1 million dollars. At first glance, both conservative and | Read More »
Republicans Plan B threaten by Democrats
By: Chet Nichols (Diary) | December 20th at 10:55 AM |
House Republicans have put together a bill that would prevent America from going over the dreaded Fiscal Cliff come January 1, 2013. In a surprising move, Republicans are banding together over a series of votes that would accomplish two key economic goals. Temporarily replacing automatic sequestration cuts (to include defense spending) but allow a slight raise in taxes on Americans making more than a million | Read More »
US sending $1billion worth of F-16′s to Egypt
By: Chet Nichols (Diary) | December 11th at 10:16 AM |
With uncertainty surrounding our nation’s economic stability, the Obama administration is set to send $1 billion worth of F-16’s to Egypt, while reducing our own National Defense. Despite unrest in Cairo and abroad, the United States is sending 20 F-16 fighter jets to Egypt beginning January 2013. The initiative is part of a foreign aid package that began in 2010, though Hosni Mubarak has since been removed. | Read More »