Growing Opportunities on Earth Rather Than Colonies on the Moon
By: Rick Santorum (Diary) | February 5th at 04:19 PM |
Promoted from the diaries. “The budget should be balanced; the treasury should be refilled; public debt should be reduced; and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.” - Cicero. 106-43 B.C. Our nation is in economic turmoil, and American families are focused on what matters the most: putting food on the table and keeping the lights on.With economic growth stagnating and over 13 million Americans | Read More »
The Sunshine State Needs Jobs Not Big Government
By: Rick Santorum (Diary) | January 29th at 02:12 PM |
President Obama’s State of the Union speech confirmed that flowing rhetoric can’t compensate for failed economic policies. In Florida, families are hurting and jobs are scarce with nearly 10 percent unemployment. In Washington, politicians have nearly doubled their spending over the past 10 years and they plan to burn through $3.7 trillion this fiscal year alone, spending around 40% more than we have. Through their | Read More »
Unleashing America’s Energy
By: Rick Santorum (Diary) | January 27th at 05:55 PM |
President Obama’s flat-out rejection of the Keystone Pipeline is radical, irresponsible, and dumbfounding. Sadly though, It is yet another example of this President’s capitulation to the radical environmental fringe which puts our economy and national security at risk. Our nation needs to become energy independent and this pipeline would have been an important step in that direction. Instead of an estimated twenty thousand jobs going | Read More »
Now is Not the Time for “Obama-Lite”
By: Rick Santorum (Diary) | January 23rd at 10:20 PM |
This election, the most important of our generation, is about ideas and core concepts about the role that government should play in individuals’ lives. The Liberal-Left has and will continue to expand the size and scope of the federal government, insisting that the government has the authority to dictate personal health decisions. There is very little that the modern liberal Democrat believes is off-limits for | Read More »
Iran at a Crossroads
By: Rick Santorum (Diary) | January 19th at 10:02 AM |
Iran’s President Ahmadinejad was selling tyranny on a tour of Latin America last week, visiting his strategic allies in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Ecuador. He’s wasn’t vacationing; he was talking about how to defeat the United States. Iran is organizing a Latin terror network, assembling weapons, including missiles that can hit us, exploring for uranium for its nuclear weapons program, and using Latin American banks, | Read More »
Shootin’ Straight on Our Fiscal Challenges
By: Rick Santorum (Diary) | January 17th at 03:00 PM |
Everybody is talking about fixing earmarks as if they are the sole source of today’s deficit woes, despite the fact that all of my opponents enthusiastically participated in the process, and that earmarks have now been halted. But what I’m talking about is how to fix America’s economy so that entrepreneurs can create jobs and we as a nation can once again live within our | Read More »