03/30/20
Congress passed a massive economic relief package at warp speed, but the details were ugly and our national government continues to need an overhaul. Read More...Tags: CARES Act, President Donald Trump , direct payments to citizens, unemployment benefits supplement, small business payroll loans, cash infusiion for hospitals, Pelosi wish list, Trumpvirus, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Steven Mnuchin, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, tea party movement, President Barack Obama, Super Bowl, 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes, positive thinking
03/23/20
It's hard to say whether the response to the coronavirus crisis will prove to be a brilliant success or the president's undoing, but it's not likely to fall somewhere in the middle. Read More...Tags: Spread of COVID-19, global , China, US , Italy, Iran , containment, social distancing, state shutdown orders, Flatten the curve, swine flu, Chinese criticism of US efforts, deficiencies of Chinese response, HydroxyChloroquine, President Donald Trump , 2nd quarter recession, Goldman Sachs, Federal Reserve, federal funds rate, bond purchases, fiscal stimulus, CARES Act, Sen. Mitch McConnell
11/25/19
Political revenge is not a good reason for the impeachment inquiry, and the ideas being offered in the Democratic primary debates seem uninspiring. Read More...Tags: President Donald Trump , public support for impeachment, Rep. Adam Schiff, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Cory Booker, Tulsi Gabbard, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Andrew Yang, Tom Steyer, Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell, Kristen Welker, Ashley Parker, Ronald Reagan, climate change, wealth tax, Freedom dividend, family leave plan, Michael Horowitz, Sen. Lindsey Graham, John Durham, William Barr, Hunter Biden, Petro Poroshenko
11/18/19
Organizers of the impeachment inquiry seem "guilty" of the sins they are attributing to the president. He and his supporters aren’t faultless either. All concerned should "take five."
Read More...Tags: Hunter Biden, President Donald Trump , Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whistleblower, George Kent, William Taylor, Ben Shapiro, Marie Yovanovitch, Benghazi attack, John Bolton, Mick Mulvaney, Hound of the Baskervilles, Ted Kaufman, Berlin in 1945, Adolf HItler, Who is the fascist?, Transference, Impeachment inquiry, Mueller report, Rep. Adam Schiff, Rep. Elise Stefanik, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Sen. Rand Paul, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Robert Shiller, John Brennan, Sean Hannity
08/26/19
Many people view fiscal responsibility as passé, but SAFE continues to support the quaint notion that government budgets should be habitually balanced. Read More...Tags: US gov't fiscal history, deficit spending, President Bill Clinton, Jim Thomen, Sen. Tom Carper, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Sen Mitch McConnell, Sen Chuck Schumer, Sen. Chris Coons, Chris Wallace, Russell Vought, President Donald Trump
07/29/19
The Bipartisan Budget Act will compound the fiscal problem, and ironically the debt limit – which is supposed to help constrain spending – provided an excuse for hasty action. Read More...Tags: Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019, Rep. Thomas Massie, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Offfsets, Steven Mnuchin, debt limit, President Donald Trump , budget proposal for fY 2020, Russell Vought, Sen. Mitch McConnell, offsets, CHIMPS, no "poison pills", President Barack Obama Obama, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, James Madison, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Mark Esper, economic results, trade policies