President Obama officially released his 2013 budget plan on Monday, and while most of what he proposed is unlikely to be passed by Congress, it’s important nonetheless to take a close look at some key numbers within the plan.

Recently, lots of members of Congress voted against increasing the national debt. But many of those same politicians had voted last August to borrow almost $2 ½ -trillion more. President Obama made an official request to borrow and spend the money; he did not get the chance to vote both…

Sen. Kent Conrad, Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, in an attempt to debunk claims that a budget had not been passed by the Senate in 1,000 days, pointed to the Budget Control Act of 2011, in a response to rhetoric by GOP that today is the “thousandth day this…

According to USA Today, our nation’s debt ceiling has exceeded it’s actual net worth, $15.23 trillion to $15.17 respectively. While some of the powers that be in government believe that in order to sequester this debt we need to pare down, the greatest bone of contention seems to lie within…