Colorado State Budget and Spending

by Al Maurer | 8:23 pm, October 8, 2010

Here are three graphs that I’ll be discussing with Rep Kent Lambert on Saturday, 9 October on Reclaim the Blue Radio. The first is from the Joint Budget Committee: The second is from the Independence Institute, and compares the projected … Continue reading →

Colorado Treasurer Debate

by Al Maurer | 12:09 pm, September 29, 2010

The second Action 22 debate on Saturday, 25 September was the Colorado Treasurer debate. Cary Kennedy (D), the incumbent, debated Walker Stapleton (R). The opening statement by Kennedy was interesting: after stating that she had taken a prudent, conservative approach … Continue reading →

Fiscal Responsibility is Hard

by Al Maurer | 11:47 am, July 1, 2010

The senatorial candidate debate last night highlighted how hard being  a fiscal conservative it is going to be after the November elections. There were a couple of questions last night about healthcare; both candidates were in favor of repeal. Ken Buck acknowledged that Congress, even with conservative majorities in both houses, could not repeal Obamacare [...]

What is this fight all about?

by Al Maurer | 11:36 am, June 29, 2010

A couple of Fridays ago I wrote a post entitled “Why are we doing this?“, a statement of the goals of the Tea Party movement which anyone who has attended more than one rally or is involved with a local Tea Party group understands, at its core, is fiscal responsibility on the part of a [...]

A Bit of Irony, Obama’s Debt Commission is Out of Money

by Mr. Bob | 4:31 pm, June 7, 2010

#irony #tcot #teapartyObama’s Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform is running out of money – http://tiny.cc/kuo46

You Cut!

by Al Maurer | 8:08 am, May 29, 2010

Eric Cantor (R-VA), the Republican Whip in the House, has a novel idea. Each week, the GOP offers 5 spending cut choices on his Republican Whip website. When I first got the email about this, I didn’t quite get it. I thought it was a one-time deal. Hardly. Every week there are five different ones–each [...]

Civic Pride in Colorado Springs

by Al Maurer | 9:33 pm, April 13, 2010

First it was Diane Sawyer and ABC news who, on February 2nd, reported on Colorado Springs’ Extreme Budget Cut. She highlighted the news that the city was selling a police helicopter and turning off 1/3 of the street lights. The next day on the radio I heard a city spokesman say he’d had three calls–two [...]

Bureaucracies never die

by Al Maurer | 7:14 pm, March 30, 2010

Government institutions have a tendency to continue to exist long after their usefulness or original purpose is gone. They continue to exist whether they are successful or not. Remember that the original purpose of the Energy Department was to wean us off foreign energy? These organizations build up a constituency who lobby to keep them [...]

Common sense

by Al Maurer | 7:58 pm, March 18, 2010

These are a few lessons my mother taught me.  All mothers used to teach these, dads too. Somebody forgot to teach these to a large number of people in Congress.

Two wrongs don’t make a right. If the GOP used shady maneuvers to pass small bills, it is no excuse for the Democrats to use the [...]

Downsizing the Federal Government

by Al Maurer | 12:15 pm, March 7, 2010

I’m beginning to understand that the real problem is not taxes–it’s spending.  I hinted at that on February 15 in my post Why eliminate tax breaks?
How do you do that?  Obama’s so-called spending freeze, which exempted just about everything, was purely political theater.  It wasn’t too many days later when he pledged billions to develop [...]

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