Veronique de Rugy: In 2010, Medicare and Medicaid cost 5.0 percent of GDP and Social Security cost 4.8 percent of GDP. Combined, that’s less than 10 percent of GDP. By 2020, the combined cost of these three programs is already projected to grow to 11.4 percent of GDP; extrapolating forward at constant growth rates, their …
Category Archive: Policy
Feb
26
Develop the Outer Continental Shelf
If there is a more idiotic component of our energy policy than refusing to develop the Outer Continental Shelf I am hard pressed to name it. No other coutnry in the world refuses to develop there resources in the way we have. That is right, NO OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD! Heck, we haven’t even …
Feb
19
Smart energy policy
I am out here at CPAC 2010 in Washington, DC networking with a host of other bloggers. I had the chance to talk to John C. Felmy who is chief economist at API about energy policy and moving forward with smart policies. A lot of people like to claim that conservatives don’t have any solutions – that …
Feb
03
Oil and Gas and Jobs
A video worth watching from API: Jobs continue to be one of the main topics of conversation in Washington. API’s President and CEO Jack Gerard explains the oil and natural gas industry’s potential as a jobs creator: And I can only say amen to this: The U.S. oil and natural gas industry could help to …