The Associated Press is reporting that President Obama plans to seek another $50 billion in spending as part of an upcoming second stimulus package.

Vowing to find new ways to stimulate the sputtering economy, President Barack Obama will call for long-term investments in the nation’s roads, railways and runways that would cost [...]

The Congressional Budget Office has crunched the numbers and Mark Tapscott of the Washington Examiner is out of the gate with the remarkable results:  The 2 year failed stimulus bill costs more than the entire Iraq War.
Expect to hear a lot about how much the Iraq war cost in the days ahead from Democrats [...]

In case you missed today’s Boston Globe Mitt Romney offers up common sense solutions to the economic problems our nation faces and in particular he calls out President Obama for his refusal to embrace free market solutions.
IT’S NOT happening the way President Obama had planned. Unemployment blew past his 8 percent ceiling and hasn’t [...]

Nothing like a Hollywood fundraiser to get the truth juices flowing.  And the Hill was on top of it when President Obama acknowledged that he succeeded in passing much of his “progressive” agenda.
President Obama told a Hollywood fundraiser Monday night that he and congressional Democrats have passed the most progressive legislation in decades.
“We [...]

A new analysis of data by USA Today is out and it confirms what many have long suspected:  the people working in the private sector who pull the wagon make substantially less than the people in public sector who ride on the wagon.  How much less — nearly 50%.

At a time when workers’ pay and [...]

Desperate Dems do desperate things.  Check out the latest.

There are plenty of losers as a result of enactment of Obamacare.  In today’s Examiner Sally Pipes outlines just how bad seniors will be hurt by the new law.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, Obamacare will cost at least $938 billion over the next decade. So here’s the big question: Who is going [...]

Today’s Washington Times highlights the bleak news from the actuary’s annual  report on the state of the Social Security program which was released yesterday.
Social Security will pay out more this year than it gets in payroll taxes, marking the first time since the program will be in the red since it was overhauled [...]

According to the Associated Press, the recession we’ve experienced was more severe than we realized.  And ominously, it may not be over.
The Commerce Department, in revisions issued Friday, estimates the economy shrank 2.6 percent last year — the steepest drop since 1946. That’s worse than the 2.4 percent decline originally estimated.
The economy’s plunge underscores why [...]