Several weeks ago, I provided a list of possible deficit-reduction moves the federal government could make and what their effect would be on the trillion-dollar-plus deficit the country is currently facing.  My purpose was two-fold: first, to indicate how difficult, if not impossible, it will be even to approach a balanced budget without a […]

“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more.  It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” -Shakespeare, “Macbeth”             My wife has attended three funerals in the last month, and none of them had […]

            The Obama administration is taking all kinds of heat these days for the one and a quarter TRILLION dollar budget deficit it has just proposed for fiscal year 2011.  (Actually the projected deficit is a tad higher than that, but what’s a trifling 17 billion or so among friends?)             Figures accompanying the budget […]

            Sometime around mid-December, give or take a week, President Obama responded to a reporter’s question by saying he’d give himself a B-plus for his first year in office.  He then quickly added that he’d raise the grade to an A-minus if Congress passed the health care reform bill and he signed it into law. […]