Tag: spending

While DC balks at cutting spending, the numbers just keep getting worse

Posted on July 19, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Yes, I know we have a GOP majority in DC. But it is exasperating to keep having to call JD Vance in to break ties on votes to cut ANY

House Republican calls out Tillis by name in spending debate

Posted on June 7, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Chip Roy, a US House member from Texas, is often a reliable conservative vote. Heritage’s most current ratings have him with a perfect conservative score of 100%. It sounds like

No matter how hard as you try, it’s STILL a pig in lipstick

Posted on May 29, 2025May 29, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The competing state spending plans in Raleigh are what we’re talking about. Majority Republicans in each legislative chamber are beating on each other — trying to paint the other side

WI senator: Despite DOGE talk + GOP majorities, DC still has us headed over the cliff

Posted on May 13, 2025May 13, 2025 by Brant Clifton

In the late 90s we had TWO senators — Faircloth and Helms — who talked honestly like this. Now, we have to rely on senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) to tell

NC Dems rallying AGAINST cutting spending, saving the country (WHERE IS THE NCGOP?)

Posted on March 9, 2025 by Brant Clifton

No, your eyes are not deceiving you. Once again, we refer you to THIS PAGE for an update on just how bad politicians have screwed our economy. In the real

The SCC Files: The ‘mushroom treatment’ rolls right along.

Posted on February 18, 2025 by Brant Clifton

It was easy to expect things to change for the better on the Sandhills Community College campus once John Dempsey and George Little departed. During the reign of that pair,

Yet ANOTHER dire warning about government spending and the future of our country

Posted on February 16, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Our nation is at a crucial key moment in its history. Big-spending politicians from both parties have busted government budgets and run up so much debt that our nation could

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’