Tag Archives: Federal Budget

Brookings: Michael E. O’Hanlon & Kay B. Hutchinson- Saving Defense Dollars: From Base Realignment to Overhead Realignment & Closure

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Erik Schneider

<a href="http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2013/10/14-defense-budget-ohanlon-hutchison?utm_campaign=brookings- Real deficit and debt reduction just doesn’t go after fifteen percent of the federal_budget. That benefits people who are most in need of government help like low-income workers. And the unemployed especially the low-skilled unemployed and basically telling … Continue reading →

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▶ U.S. Senate Democrats: Video: Leader Harry Reid To Republicans: It’s Not Too Late To Do The Right Thing

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Erik Schneider

FRS FreeState on Facebook ▶ Leader Harry Reid to Republicans: It’s Not Too Late To Do The Right Thing – YouTube. Looks like Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have a compromise in the Senate. That would not … Continue reading →

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ABC News: This Week’s Powerhouse Roundtable Takes on the Government Shutdown Showdown

Posted on October 13, 2013 by Erik Schneider

If the Democratic Senate comes up with a bipartisan agreement led by Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. And it passes with around seventy votes or more with only Tea Party Republicans voting against it for the most … Continue reading →

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▶ The White House: Video: Lets’s Get Back to the Work of the American People

Posted on October 12, 2013 by Erik Schneider

FRS FreeState on Facebook ▶ Weekly Address: Let’s Get Back to the Work of the American People – YouTube. President Obama actually hit all of the notes and laid it out exactly as it is. By saying this is not … Continue reading →

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The Economist: Phillip Coggan & Ryan Avent- Money Talks: Losing faith

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Erik Schneider

As Ryan Avent said the United States economy could takeoff if the U.S. Government and I mean the U.S. Congress especially, like the House Republican Conference, stopped shooting the economy in the foot. And get out-of-the-way and stop creating all … Continue reading →

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AP: Raw Video: President Obama- No Ransom For Congress

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Erik Schneider

The House could hold a vote on the Senate passed government funding bill that has House Republican numbers in it. Not Democratic budget numbers and if the bill passes the government shutdown is over. And both Democrats and Republicans in … Continue reading →

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ABC News: This Week- ‘Powerhouse Roundtable Discusses Government Shutdown’

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Erik Schneider

“Cokie Roberts, Jonathan Karl, Paul Gigot, Soledad O’Brien, and Steven Rattner on “This Week.” Source:ABC News The White House is waiting for the House Republican Leadership to fall. And that happens with vulnerable House Republicans for 2014 who are in … Continue reading →

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▶ ABC News: Video: World News Now: Government Shutdown Could Cost $300M Per Day

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Erik Schneider

▶ World News Now: Government Shutdown Could Cost $300M Per Day – YouTube. The current House Republican strategy and hopefully the last before they finally give up. And a light goes on in their head that this is not working … Continue reading →

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Democratic Rapid Response: Video: Speaker John Boehner’s Government Shutdown Rhetoric

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Erik Schneider

Speaker John Boehner’s Government Shutdown Rhetoric YouTube. See even Speaker John Boehner the top Republican in the United States believes that attaching so-called ObamaCare language. To a government funding bill and risking a government shutdown is a bad idea at … Continue reading →

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Associated Press: Raw Video- President Obama- Not at All Resigned to a Shutdown

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Erik Schneider

Source: Associated Press: Raw Video- President Obama Not At All Resigned to a Shutdown President Obama and Congressional Democrats have the high ground here holding the Senate and White House. Reelected last year with the Affordable Care Act as a big … Continue reading →

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