If you think health care costs are out of control, check out their comparison with college tuition–over the past twenty years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, price growth of 191% for medical care and 289% for college tuition! With the growing trend in deregulation of tuition and costs among the nation’s top state-supported […]
Archives for April 2005
The End Of The Revolution Of ‘94
You might want to mark March 17, 2005 as the end of an era, the day that the spirit of the Contract With America finally died. On that day, the Senate balked at the lightest touching of entitlements by rejecting President Bush’s modest cuts in the runaway growth of Medicaid increases over the next five […]
The Schiavo Debacle
In the tragedy that has played out over the past month in the Terri Schiavo case, one has to look very hard to find any redeeming legacy. However, there is one possible legacy that may assure that this woman will not have died in vain, and that is a heightened sense that there is something […]
A Hinge Point For The Texas Economy
I was struck recently by a small article in the Wall Street Journal by Russell Gold highlighting a turning point in the underlying structure of the Texas economy. Gold reports that, based on current modeling by the Comptroller of Public Accounts, for the first time since the Spindletop gusher over one hundred years ago, higher […]