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… was more Republican progressivism, which would include military adventurism, expensive and exhaustive nation-building, and expanded, unaffordable and ineffective social programs ranging from No Child Left Behind to S-CHIP to Medicare prescription drug benefits, coupled with additional weighty regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley. On the whole, his administration skewed toward the worst excesses of TR and FDR and could hardly be called conservative, d…
…ly because of our present healthcare system. And it appears most of us are happy with our present plans. A recent gallop poll indicates that 87% of Americans with health insurance are happy with their plans. 82% of people on Medicare and Medicaid also say their healthcare coverage is good to excellent. According to CNN 15% of all Americans, roughly 45 million presently don’t have any health insurance. That’s 1 in 8 Americans. According to the US…
… AARP has managed to produce “no” jobs. According to “Politico” AARP has moved on to lobbying for passage of health care legislation, even though Democratic proposals have called for several hundred billion dollars in cuts to Medicare, a program that the group typically defends tooth and nail when Republicans propose cutting it. A recent Pew survey found that just 31 percent of those over 65 supported health care legislation being touted by AARP….
…P likes this bill because they say, “it takes care of the elderly.” It’s obvious they haven’t really read this bill either. Page 102 of the bill states that the Commissioner shall provide a process for any person eligible for Medicare who has not enrolled in an “Exchange provided” health care plan to be automatically enrolled in Medicaid whether they want to or not. Again you have no choice. But just when you thought it was safe to remove your r…
…to pay for the investments that built this country and provided the basic security that helped millions of Americans reach and stay in the middle class — things like education and infrastructure, science and technology, Medicare and Social Security. Remember that in those same years, thanks to some of the same folks who are now running Congress, we had weak regulation, we had little oversight, and what did it get us? Insurance companies tha…
…of the Obama Coalition”, Thomas Edsall, by pushing “takers” into a non-working, entitlement, nanny state, socialistic philosophical ideology. Republicanism is not lost but it is certainly a candidate for a “Progressive Lite” label….or what as “Congress is Useless” all about? http://www.hollywoodrepublican.net/2011/11/congress-is-useless/ And all that is supported in academia today is under the myth of “academic freedom”. Collectivism and totalit…
… of these circumstances, the use of the word hero is trivialized. A deeper problem is that ides of myth, legend and story hold a society’s culture together. The concept of the hero is central to these. By misapplying the hero label and refraining from using it when needed takes our culture in the wrong direction. I hope we can recover the sense of propriety about who we call a hero and what they did to be considered brave before it’s too late. A …
… Citizen population. What are you doing to get their votes Mr. Steele? They are also seeing their savings depleted in the current economy. They are afraid that the new health care bill will put the final nail in the coffin of Medicare. They are afraid that Social Security will collapse when the out-of-control spending comes home to roost. The legal immigrants are angry that the current administration is doing nothing to control the flood of ille…
…ment grants (nominal loans which are not repaid, but simply defaulted upon and absorbed by government as a cost of doing business). The endpoint is a system of “free” education, which, although utopian, is as unsustainable as Medicare and as vulnerable to crashing as the mortgage market. I can’t help thinking that at the root of this is not simply the President’s ignorance. Though I have never in my life witnessed such a startling disparity betwe…
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