Bernanke: Even a ‘Deficit-Neutral’ Health Care Overhaul Wouldn’t Fix the Cost-Debt Problem

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 23rd at 10:34 AM  | 

Yesterday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave his semi-annual report on monetary policy and the economy to the Senate Banking Committee. With the hot Beltway topic being the health care overhaul President Obama is so desperate to get passed and signed before more people find out what the effects of such a policy will really be, a few Senators had questions for the Chairman about | Read More »

Barack Obama’s Deficit Spending Doublespeak

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 22nd at 12:00 PM  | 

In an attempt to defend the trillion-dollar health care overhaul bills currently being marked up in Congress, and to shift attention from his own actions to those of his predecessor, President Barack Obama (D-IL) declared in his July 18 radio address that “The same folks who controlled the White House and Congress for the past eight years as we ran up record deficits will argue | Read More »