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Defining our fiscal crisis is first step
Thu, 02/24/2011 - 22:26 — starparkerHow do we reconcile the paradox that most know that the federal government is out of control, yet support the programs that are driving it out of control?
The first step in solving any problem is defining the problem correctly. It's here, at step one, where we're already failing in how we're thinking about our nation's fiscal crisis.
In D.C., it's the money that talks
Tue, 08/17/2010 - 19:17 — starparkerBy Star Parker
The main way to end the poverty cycle is to get poor children educated but teachers' unions refuse to make concessions and hard adjustments like all Americans are making.
Washington's latest bailout of bleeding state governments, $26 billion worth, has gotten attention because, among other things, almost half the bailout is financed by cutting $12 billion from food stamps.
