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...
Fruits of Liberal Policy
Rewriting Fannie Mae History – WSJ.com
So when Mr. Raines says that “the cause of the financial problems for Fannie and Freddie was bad decisions, not their government sponsored status,” well, let’s just say he’s not telling the whole story. via Rewriting Fannie Mae History – WSJ.com.
Coburn, Barrasso Release Oversight Report on Obamacare’s First 100 Days – Press Releases – Tom Coburn, M.D., United States Senator from Oklahoma
FACT: The new health law increases the cost of health care. FACT: Sixteen million Americans are forced into Medicaid – a program that denies care, has higher rates of infant mortality, and yields lower health outcomes for patients. FACT: Citizens will be forced to purchase costlier health insurance or pay a tax, but illegal...
The Anatomy of Defeat – Rasmussen Reports™
CBS, meanwhile, reported: “The Obama administration is giving different explanations of its July 2011 deadline for the start of an Afghanistan troop withdrawal, assuring foreign officials that it applies only to the 30,000 to 35,000 additional U.S. troops that President Barack Obama is sending next year (2010), but suggesting to Congress that it covers...
UC Tuition Hikes and Public Employee Pensions – WSJ.com
In 1999, the Democratic legislature ran a reckless gamble that makes Wall Street's bankers look cautious. At the top of a bull market, they assumed their investment returns would grow at a 8.25% rate in perpetuity—equivalent to assuming that the Dow would reach 25,000 by 2009—and enacted a huge pension boon for public-safety and...
» What MSM Won’t Tell You: Doctors Are Challenging Government Health Care-and the AMA – Big Government
» What MSM Won’t Tell You: Doctors Are Challenging Government Health Care-and the AMA – Big Government. Scherz and the other board members want Docs 4 patient Care to grow into what the AMA should have been. This means more than defeating ObamaCare. The group is non-partisan and anxious to work with all those who...
A Reckless Health Care Bill That Nobody Believes In – WSJ.com
The best and most rigorous cost analysis was recently released by the insurer WellPoint, which mined its actuarial data in various regional markets to model the Senate bill. WellPoint found that a healthy 25-year-old in Milwaukee buying coverage on the individual market will see his costs rise by 178%. A small business based in...
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...
Investors.com – Skewed Priorities
Service Employees International Union boss Andy Stern, who told the Wall Street Journal that if the power of persuasion didn’t work, then the persuasion of power would have to do. The records show Stern had 22 meetings, many face-to-face with the president, more than anyone else known so far. Stern might as well borrow...
