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If the unemployment rate is at a dismal 9.8%, we’ve lost an average of 16,000 jobs a day, and only one state saw an increase in jobs over the last nine months (North Dakota, with an increase of less than 2,000 jobs), would you consider that there could be such a thing as a “jobless recovery”...
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It's clear to anyone with eyes to see that the stimulus package passed earlier this year was a miserable failure. Since Obama's push for health care reform over the past few months, little has been mentioned about the stimulus package. Everyone has been so preoccupied with health care that they've...
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No one denies that our health care system needs some work. But the Baucus bill that would take us a step closer to government run health care is not the answer. Taking the American people a step closer to government run health care is not going to fix the system, nor will it save any money. And one of...
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As the health care reform bill makes its way through the legislative process, Americans aren’t getting more comfortable with or optimistic about it. They remain firmly against a public option, and most people are satisfied with the current health care system we have in America. While no one can...
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We all remember the disaster that was “Hillarycare”. When Bill Clinton became president, one of the first things he did was establish the Task Force on National Health Care Reform, and made his wife, then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, the chair. The Clinton health care plan would have...
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September 11 was one of the darkest days in American history. While countless Americans understand that, and still grieve each year over the loss of almost 3,000 of their fellow Americans, it seems that for the Obama administration, it’s nothing more than a talking point to be exploited. And oh...
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Half the country wants out of Social Security, and there’s nothing they can do about it. Every paycheck, the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) takes deductions out of our paychecks. These tax deposits are trusted to several government programs, such as the Federal Old-Age and Survivors...
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It’s been interesting, trying to figure out what would be more important to him. On the one hand, getting single payer passed, starting with this so-called “public option” as a Trojan Horse, has been a goal of his for years. On the other hand, he’s seeing that it will be a political...
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Well, what do you know? Public outrage has caused Congress to drop their plan to buy a new fleet of Gulfstream jets to the tune of $550 million. Congress had approved $550 million to be spent on some fancy new private jets. These jets are actually bought and then operated by the Department of Defense...
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They really have no shame. As the recession worsens, Congress is carrying on business as usual. The unemployment rate is at a 26 year high at 9.5%, and last month we lost about 273,000 jobs -- lower than the previous five months this year, but still a staggering loss. And worse, businesses aren’t...