I ask readers to forgive me in advance for this rant, but my anger has reached a boiling point. Why on earth have we invested Senator Olympia Snowe with so much power and influence in the healthcare debate? Her vote does not matter and the fawning attention given to her flaccid display of bipartisanship only shows just how off...
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Mr. Obama is determined to address the nation’s health care crisis, despite the terrible economic conditions and an already ambitious agenda that is meeting resistance from politicians in his own party. The statistics are dire: 45 million Americans have no health care insurance, those who are insured must compete with...
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Mr. Obama has proposed a relatively bold and ambitious agenda. Despite the fundamental challenges to our economy, Mr. Obama has submitted a budget that outlines a number of mildly progressive proposals that belie the current state of the economy. The president has chosen to double down on America’s future and refuses to...
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Here I go again. I feel the need to explain why, besides the damage they have wrought to the stimulus plan, the Republican push for tax cuts is an ineffectual and misguided economic policy. Besides a few economists that are friendly with the highly partisan Heritage Foundation, most agree that tax cuts are not an effective way...
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President Obama’s stimulus plan passed in the House of Representatives with no Republican votes. Now the bill must pass the Senate before it goes to a Conference committee. Once it leaves Conference Committee, the final version will be voted on by both the House and Senate. Thus, it is very likely that the current bill...
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