The answer is straightforward. Postpone Social Security payments, Medicare payments, military payrolls, farm subsidies, and Congressional payrolls. A large portion of the US population will see substantial losses of incomes and significantly increased personal liabilities. Many millions of people will be impoverished. They will just have to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps as […]
It seems that everyone in the country, from both the right and left, feels that the US is headed in bad directions. The Supreme Court seems totally committed to States Rights as envisioned in the early 19th century. Each state can make its own decisions on abortion, the environment, sexual equality and voting rights. The […]
Now that Members of Congress no longer have legislative responsibilities, they have become very creative in how they pursue reelection. Some play it straight in the sense that they pretend to be serious about eliminating immigration, deporting anyone in the US whose family has been here less than three generations, and gutting K-12 curricula to […]
Members of Congress have only one objective – getting reelected. Their every utterance is focused on appealing to the voters that can get them through the primaries, if necessary, and winning in the general elections. Many also have aspirations for higher offices. Most have absolutely no interest in policy discussions and debates. They have concluded […]
I have always been fiscally conservative and socially liberal which, when I lived in New England, meant that I was a moderate Republican aligned with the likes of Edward Brooke, John Chafee, Eliot Richardson, Nelson Rockefeller, and Margaret Chase Smith. I was a fan of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton 1, and Obama — […]
National defense, and acquisition of weapon systems in particular, has long been a target of transformation. The Packard Commission in 1985 provided a very reasonable set of recommendations for reforming defense acquisition processes. These recommendations resulted in relatively minor changes. Blue ribbon committees both before and after the Packard Commission had comparably minor impacts. President […]
