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This week, the House passed a bill that imposes further regulations on financial firms - on executive pay which is bad enough in itself, and to add insult to injury, on the way those firms and employees do business. The bill is "aimed at preventing financial firms from adopting compensation systems...
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08-02-2009
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It has now been 190 days since the stimulus bill was passed. Back in February, President Obama spoke before Congress and stated , "the recovery plan and the financial stability plan are the immediate steps we're taking to revive our economy in the short-term ." Today, Vice President Biden...
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07-26-2009
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Filed under: stimulus package, deficits, universal health care, public healthcare, economic crisis, government, Freedom, government option, federal government, health care benefits, health care reform, health care debate
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$18,000,000 to redesign a website that was lunched less than 5 months ago… that makes sense! ABC News reports: For those concerned about stimulus spending, the General Services Administration sends word tonight that $18 million in additional funds are being spent to redesign the Recovery.gov Web...
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President Obama wants to add yet another czar, a Health Choices Commision czar this time, to the growing list of these unelected officials that are handpicked by the President and go through absolutely no confirmation process. A Virginia paper recently asked, " how many czars can fit into the West...
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07-07-2009
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Filed under: health care, universal health care, socialized health care, public healthcare, regulation, government, Heritage Foundation, transparency, Freedom, insurance, government option, federal government, Obama promises, czar, state rights
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Yesterday, in his weekly address, President Obama called on Americans to "summon the same spirit that inhabited Independence Hall two hundred and thirty-three years ago". This is one time when I can get behind President Obama's sentiments - although he may not like my reasons for it. What...
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07-05-2009
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Filed under: wasteful spending, cap and trade, capitalism, stimulus package, government spending, universal health care, socialized health care, public healthcare, economic crisis, government, cap and tax, government option, federal government, founding fathers
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I was just looking through a memorandum released by Michael Steele, Chairman of the Republican National Committee. The memo detailed some recent poll results and what he views as the findings. He also outlines a list of "realities" and "myths" behind some of the current administration's...
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This week will mark four months since President Obama signed the stimulus bill into law. Four months later, unemployment has reached a 26 year-high, and only $44 billion of 'stimulus' money has been spent . Ironically, a recent Rasmussen poll shows that four months after passing the largest spending...
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This week, the wacky government of Venezuela banned Coke Zero from being sold in the country. Citing harmful ingredients , it claimed to be protecting the health of its citizens, while the government purports to conduct an investigation into potentially dangerous ingredients in the soft drink. In reality...
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When medical decisions happen, the two most important people involved are always the patient and the doctor, period. Proposed "public health insurance" and other socialized health care components take decisions out of the hands of patients too often, and just as often take decisions out of...
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A recent column on CBC.ca written as an open letter to Americans provides somewhat of a defense of the Canadian health care system. Much of what writer Neil Macdonald says betrays the insidious ways in which being beholden to the government, such as with universal health care, leads to the loss of or...
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In what will be good news for many proponents of a capitalist health care solution, President Obama announced today that a single payer health care system, like some of the socialist programs of Europe, is off the table. While this is good news, he also made it clear that he would push for the big government...
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Former Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao had an important piece in the Wall Street Journal recently about the lack of transparency of union leaders on the issue of how they spend union dues. She wrote that “Fifty years ago, Congress passed the landmark Landrum-Griffin Act to protect rank-and-file...