Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 bill….

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a p….

Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein i….

Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; a….

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the de….

Our country, the United States of America, may be the worlds largest economy and the worlds only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thi….

We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the bud….

We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence..

This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, full….

Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel..