Tag: spending

Greg Murphy: ‘We in DC are smarter than YOU.’

Posted on December 21, 2024December 21, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Congressman Greg Murphy is absolutely shameless. Despicable, too. When the guy first ran to replace the late Walter Jones in Congress, he ran around the district thumping his Bible and

Grifting while our national economy burns down

Posted on December 3, 2024 by Brant Clifton

Politicians are great — especially at election time – at telling us what we want to hear. *Oh, they’re tightening the belt. Oh, they’re getting tough on spending and the

Fed spending for FY 2024 largest ever (outside a major crisis)

Posted on June 24, 2024 by Brant Clifton

That’s the word from a Congressional Budget Office analysis. ( “Major crises” can include events like wars, The Great Depression, and the COVID pandemic.) Just like in Raleigh, good ol’

NC’s Grand Ol’ Party (of subsidized daycare)

Posted on June 18, 2024 by Brant Clifton

As we’re seeing in DC, Republicans around here are tossing out that bothersome plank from the party platform about fiscal restraint / conservatism. Government is not a for-profit business. (Granted,

Colleges ‘spending like there’s no tomorrow’

Posted on August 10, 2023 by Brant Clifton

Given the heavy college presence in our fair state, this Wall Street Journal piece ought to provide some serious food for thought: The nation’s best-known public universities have been on

US power grid needs TRILLION$$$ more in spending to accommodate “renewable energy” ?

Posted on September 26, 2022 by Brant Clifton

That’s what a new study suggests: In August, California announced the end of fossil fuel-powered car sales by 2035, prompting green energy advocates to celebrate. However, flex alerts followed

‘Riverboat’ Thommy explains the DC shell game to the lil’ people

Posted on August 19, 2021 by Brant Clifton

Don’t you just love it when one of the honorables on Capitol Hill steps down off his or her pedestal to lecture us on how THEY are right and

Budget-busting at Moore County Schools?

Posted on June 23, 2021 by Brant Clifton

The bureaucrats at the Moore County Schools are making their yearly, hat-in-hand, tearful plea to the county commissioners for MO’ MONEY. If you listen to one school board member,

Spending ourselves silly, paving the way for Chinese dominance

Posted on March 9, 2021March 9, 2021 by Brant Clifton

Statist-controlled DC is pushing us closer to the brink of disaster than ever before. And China is cheering them all on with a standing ovation. The DC statists

‘I smell pork.’

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Brant Clifton

It’s official. Earmarks are back. And EVERY congressman gets ten: House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) confirmed late on Feb. 26 that earmarks—which she termed “Community Project