There is a distinctly Titanic-like feel to the Obama presidency and it’s not hard to see why. The most left-wing president in modern American history has tried to force a highly interventionist, government-driven agenda that runs counter to the principles of free enterprise, individual freedom, and limited government that have made the United States...
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Investors.com – Making Nightmare Out Of Health Care
Yet, a 2008 study by the British medical journal Lancet shows government-run health care systems in Germany, France, Britain and Canada have higher rates of death from breast, prostate and colon cancer than the U.S. — due largely to substandard government care.Americans have greater access to MRI, tomography and other sophisticated diagnostics — and...
John Mackey: The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare – WSJ.com
While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in...
Urine Test for Welfare Recipients – There Oughtta Be a Law
Here’s a good common sense email going around… THE JOB – URINE TEST Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they pay me.. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck, I am required to...
Director’s Blog » Blog Archive » The Long-Term Budget Outlook
Under current law, the federal budget is on an unsustainable path, because federal debt will continue to grow much faster than the economy over the long run. Although great uncertainty surrounds long-term fiscal projections, rising costs for health care and the aging of the population will cause federal spending to increase rapidly under any...
CBO: The Long-Term Budget Outlook
Measured relative to GDP, almost all of the projected growth in federal spending other than interest payments on the debt stems from the three largest entitlement programs—Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. via Director’s Blog » Blog Archive » The Long-Term Budget Outlook.
Foreclosures at record high in first half 2009 despite aid – Yahoo! News
U.S. home foreclosure activity galloped to a record in the first half of the year, overwhelming broad efforts to remedy failing loans while job losses escalated. Foreclosure filings jumped to a record 1.9 million on more than 1.5 million properties in the first six months of the year, RealtyTrac said on Thursday. The number...
Average length of unemployment highest since 1948. – WSJ.com
The Bureau of Labor Statistics preliminary estimate for job losses for June is 467,000, which means 7.2 million people have lost their jobs since the start of the recession. The cumulative job losses over the last six months have been greater than for any other half year period since World War II, including the...
