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The Washington Post: Robert J. Samuelson

America's candor gap on the budget
In all the recent reports, speeches and news conferences concerning the federal budget outlook — including the administration's proposed budget for 2011 — hardly anyone has posed these crucial questions: What should the federal government do and why; and who should pay? We ought to go back to first principles of defining a desirable role for government and abandon the expedient of assuming that anyone receiving a federal benefit is morally entitled to it simply because it's been received before.   ( February 08, 2010)

China's $2.4 trillion grip on the global economy  ( January 25, 2010)

A Wall Street pay puzzle  ( January 18, 2010)

The numbers behind Americans' everyday lives  ( January 11, 2010)

In the aftermath of the Great Recession  ( January 04, 2010)

Democracy's demolition derby  ( December 28, 2009)

Passing health reform could be a nightmare for Obama  ( December 21, 2009)

A savings mirage on health care  ( December 14, 2009)

Medical spending threatens everything else  ( December 07, 2009)

Job creation made hard  ( December 03, 2009)

Fed 'reform' we don't want  ( November 30, 2009)

Health 'reform' that burdens our young  ( November 23, 2009)

Obamacare: Buy now, pay later  ( November 16, 2009)

the next economic bubble?  ( November 09, 2009)

Could America go broke?  ( November 02, 2009)

Public plan mirage  ( October 26, 2009)

A Path to Downward Mobility  ( October 12, 2009)

Obama's Tire Tariff: Bad Policy, Right Message  ( September 21, 2009)

Give It to Us Straight  ( September 14, 2009)

For Obama, the Only Choice for the Fed  ( August 26, 2009)

A Rail Boondoggle, Moving at High Speed  ( August 24, 2009)

Championing the Status Quo  ( August 10, 2009)

Obama's Misleading Medicine  ( July 27, 2009)

The Squandered Stimulus  ( July 20, 2009)

Economists Out to Lunch  ( July 06, 2009)

Panics 'R' Us!  ( June 29, 2009)

Wrong Way on Health 'Reform'  ( June 15, 2009)

The Obama Infatuation  (Monday, June 01, 2009)

Obama's Risky Debt  (Monday, May 18, 2009)

The Bias Against Oil and Gas  (Monday, May 04, 2009)

Selling the Green Economy  ( April 27, 2009)

Obama's Economic Mirage  (Monday, April 13, 2009)

China's Dollar Deception  (Monday, April 06, 2009)

Geithner's Hedge Fund  (Monday, March 30, 2009)

American Capitalism Besieged  (Monday, March 23, 2009)

The Shadow of Depression  ( March 16, 2009)

Obama's Double Talk  ( March 09, 2009)

Wrong Turn on Housing  (Monday, March 02, 2009)

Obama's Stunted Stimulus  (Monday, February 23, 2009)

Our Lost Decade?  ( February 19, 2009)