Rep. Tom Price

It is disappointing, though predictable, that President Obama, members of his cabinet, and his faithful allies on Capitol Hill are urging an increase in the nation’s debt limit without including real budget reforms, spending reductions and controls. For decades, Congress has been raising the limit on the amount of money the United States can borrow. Democrats blindly raised it six times in just the last four years. We have amassed a national debt of nearly $14.3 trillion -- that is $45,000 per American -- and projections indicate that by 2030 our debt as a share of our economy will be an astonishing 146%. No nation can sustain such a weight against its economy. (more)

Democrat leaders have said a lot of things during this year-long health care debate that most people just don’t believe. They’ve told you their plan will decrease the cost of health care, cut future deficits, and that “if you like what you have, you can keep it.” And you’ve surely heard hundreds of times the false claim that Republicans don’t have ideas of our own. (more)

Few New Years have come in with as much contempt for the past year as 2010.  While so many were promised change in 2009, the futility of runaway government crippled our national productivity.  Unbridled spending led only to rising unemployment; unchecked intervention into our financial system gave us frozen markets; all while those in charge in Washington were immovably preoccupied with a massive and intrusive health plan that Americans simply do not want. (more)