The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.

Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.