Says John Kitzhaber’s proposed budget for upcoming biennium represents 8 percent increase over last
Welfare programs caused more long-term damage to Detroit than the atomic bomb caused to Hiroshima
"The Constitution doesn't allow the governor to not-spend appropriations funds."
The federal government "can cut all of the non-military discretionary spending and not balance the budget."
"Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security."
Under changes being debated, state employees in Wisconsin "who earn $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 a year might have 20 percent of their income just disappear overnight."
Limiting labor negotiations to only wages is "how it is for the most part in the private sector."
For thousands of public employees, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill would "take away any say they have in the workplace, and eliminate their union."
"For the last decade, funding in the health and human services budget has grown at twice the rate as other parts of the budget, and…
The United states is "borrowing more than 40 cents of every dollar we spend."
Americans, in the last 30 years, "have more than doubled the amount of money we are spending per child (on education) … and the results…