We’ve all been feeling the pinch at the pump, as gas prices have steadily and rapidly increased in recent years due to higher worldwide demand and a decrease in supply. The drilling moratorium in the Gulf, the U.N.’s decision to no longer purchase from Iran, and developing nations discovering a thirst for industry and oil have translated to $4 a gallon gasoline.

A Gallup poll in March found that 85 percent of the public believes that the president and Congress “should take immediate actions to try to control the rising price of gas.” I am among that 85 percent. I would love for President Obama to green light the Keystone Pipeline, sell off federal lands to oil companies that want to drill, and generally get the heck out of the way of stopping progress and production.

Let’s talk about numbers. People love to make numbers say whatever they want. For example, number trickery has perpetuated the myth that the middle class pays the majority of the taxes in America. Famed fat cat billionaire Warren Buffett has made issue of the effective tax rate of his secretary, and how so totally unfair it is that she is taxed at a higher percentage rate than him.

It recently came to light that President Obama also paid ‘fewer’ taxes than his secretary. That must be what they’re calling new math.

The Buffett Rule isn’t just about fairness. This is not an issue of she who works hard gets to keep her cash. Plenty of people who work hard do not earn much money, and plenty of people with a lot of money did not necessarily earn it. No, this is not what the Buffett Rule is about at all. It’s about what fundamental philosophy we want to adopt as a nation. Will we continue down a destructive path of greed with an inward focus on ourselves or will we open our arms, eyes, and hearts to fellow citizens to lift America up as a people? The question of a “me” versus “we” mentality begs to be answered, and every policy, law, and ruling our lawmakers vote on will be driven by this very question. It is simply a matter of values.

President Obama, Warren BuffettPresident Obama's "laser like focus" on jobs seems only to entail pushing for things that will have the exact opposite effect of creating jobs. His latest nonsense? The Buffett Rule. Good grief; Warren Buffett's secretary is omnipresent. Does she even perform her job as, you know, secretary or is she now just a shill for Obama?

Desperate to foment an atmosphere of class warfare, he and his fellow Democrats have even resorted to trying to tie Ronald Reagan, a man whom they usually viciously demonize, to the absurd Buffett Rule. It doesn't pass the smell test, though. Even we oh-so-silly "never worked a day in our lives" moms can see that, as evidenced when the White House shamefully took to Twitter to push the "fair share" Buffett Rule falsehoods. Evidently, some "bitter clingers" know garbage when they see it. Of course, many regular people know what it's like to meet a payroll, unlike our President.

Tax Freedom Day arrives on April 17 this year, which coincidentally is also the last day you can file your 2011 tax returns without an extension. Every year, the Tax Foundation calculates exactly how long the average American must work to pay their share of the tax burden, before they can start keeping their earnings. 

In 1900, Tax Freedom Day was January 22.

President Obama has recently been touting the Buffett Rule, a proposed new tax on the uber-wealthy, named for famed billionaire Warren Buffet. Buffett has been vocal in his support for higher taxes on high-income earners, claiming that he pays fewer taxes than his secretary. 

No word on whether or not Buffett has voluntarily donated to the government.

The most important election issue this cycle with regard to my children is the economy. While working on the Clinton campaign in 1992, political consultant James Carville famously said, “It’s the economy, stupid!” Twenty years later, I have to agree with the man.

Unemployment is still uncharacteristically high, no matter what the expert economists want to say about the decrease in unemployment numbers. It’s easy to say that the unemployment is going down when people stop looking for work altogether. The dirty little secret is that the unemployment rate only includes those people actively looking for work, not the hundreds of thousands of individuals that have given up altogether. 

After President Obama’s budget didn’t get a single vote in the House of Representatives last week, you’d think that he’d get to work on coming up with something that wouldn’t get voted down by even Nancy Pelosi, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and the guy that thinks Guam is going to tip over.

Instead, the President took to the airwaves today to lambast Congressman Paul Ryan’s ‘Path to Prosperity’ budget, which passed the House several days ago by a count of 228-191. Ryan’s plan slashes trillions in spending over the coming decades, lowers deficits, and reforms Medicare.