by Barry Fagin | Oct 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette as “America’s real problem is with spiritual poverty”, September 26, 2013} The poverty problem in America has been solved. If you want to talk about poverty of the spirit, inequality of wealth, inequality of...
by Barry Fagin | Oct 14, 2013 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, August 4, 2011} Far from being a “historic” compromise, the debt-ceiling deal is politics as usual. Federal spending increases every year, entitlements are untouched, no agencies or subsidies are targeted for elimination. As...
by Barry Fagin | Oct 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, July 20, 2011} Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the WWW! I don’t mean that new-fangled internet-thingy, I mean the “Weekly Word in Washington”! Today we’re going to learn how to talk to people in our nation’s capital....
by Barry Fagin | Sep 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, December 8, 2010} As a long-time, hard-working federal employee who gives up a lot to work where he does, I have just one thing to say about the proposed federal employee pay freeze. I think it’s a terrific idea. Well, maybe...
by Barry Fagin | Sep 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, August 1, 2013} It’s been a good week for libertarians. For those who don’t know, a libertarian is someone who takes a consistent, constitutionally restrained view of government. Libertarians favor lower taxes,...
