President Obama’s new budget plan

With all of the talk on Political Realities and around the nation about the budget deficit, I thought it fitting to mention the budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The White House is set to release some of the details later Monday, but it has been learned that the budget will total $3.8 trillion in [...]

President Obama to propose spending freeze

It has been a year since the United States of America swore in it’s first African-America President, in the body of Barack Obama. As is customary for a sitting President, he is scheduled to give his annual State of the Union speech on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 and in it, he is expected to offer [...]

The miscalculations of President Obama

I have always believed President Obama was pragmatic man. Although he has an agenda that is much more ambitious than that of most other Presidents, he realizes that some of it simply will not get accomplished. That’s not to say he has not tried and will not try again, but he understands he may be limited in what he can push through Congress. From listening to his speeches and statements in the past few weeks, I believe his main concern right now is the healthcare reform

Obama and budget cuts–where will he start?

During his campaign for President, Barack Obama made it very clear that he intended to go through the federal budget and remove wasteful spending items, doing it line by line. It was a very big part of his campaign rhetoric and now that he has won the election and is preparing to take the oath [...]