Articles by Jonathan Veley

When Pat Tiberi finally got around to resigning after 17 years in office representing our district, he had more than six million dollars in his campaign account. Had he chosen to ride things out indefinitely, he could easily have financed another four hotly contested races to retain his seat without raising another dime. And he hasn't had a hotly contested race for more than a decade. Why? Because he had six million dollars in his account. For that reason, he has quietly sat on the Ways and Me...

Nobody wants to be mean to a Muppet. Congress has been systematically spending the United States government into oblivion since 2001. As I detailed in a recent article ("The Debt Crisis: The Most Important Issue for 2018"), we have reached the point in American history at which we need to make difficult choices in order to eliminate the deficit and reduce the debt - or else confront the mathematical reality that our Federal government will financially collapse within a decade. Yet our leaders...

Note: the author is an independent candidate for Ohio’s 12th Congressional District. Whatever my stance is on any other issue won't matter if we don't take care of this one: the national debt. I have a plan to avoid the coming crisis; however, we need to act now to implement it, as our window of opportunity is rapidly closing. This chart, from the Congressional Budget Office, illustrates exactly where we are at this point in our nation's history (I added the "we are here" with an arrow): Sinc...