Here are my ideas for Federal Health Care… We spend more on health care than all these countries while life expectancy is lower than others, comprehensive care per capita is less and quality is less than some. Here are the numbers: Country Health Care Spending as % of GDP United States 13.9 Switzerland 11.1 Norway [...]
Blogger – I won’t go on too much. This entry by the Director does not instill confidence. He says that the legislation will decrease the incentive to work or work more hours because of the huge increase in Medicaid. Then he says it won’t matter TOO much, even though he said it will be the [...]
I still think the CBO projections are valid even after reading this criticism, CBO Confirms That Without Accounting Gimmicks, Obamacare Adds to Deficits The CBO believes that Health-care reform bill will cut the deficit by $1.3 trillion over 20 years and cover cover 95% of the US population. The CBO based their projections on current [...]
Eisenhower, Republican, started the Vietnam war and spent a huge amount of money (for the time) on covert operations…it just takes a little research to shoot down most of the Republican myths on the internet. I would use the word “lie” instead of “misstatement” but I do not think they know better so it is [...]
While it is popular to say the US is a “nanny state” or the we need to drastically cut the size of the Federal Government, I suggest that is pure rhetoric and manipulation unless you are willing to base your opinions on real numbers. Here are the numbers: http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=1258 If by nanny state you mean [...]
Mark Kirk, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois, told state Republican leaders last week about his plan to send “voter integrity” squads to two predominately African-American neighborhoods of Chicago and two other urban areas of Illinois with significant minority populations “where the other side might be tempted to jigger the numbers somewhat. http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/mark_kirk_sends_poll_watchers_to_vulnerable_largel.php “Intimidation” [...]
I am sure there are lots of reasons that jobs are leaving the country that probably cannot be isolated to one party or the other but I will tell about my experience in management at US Robotics, a high tech dial up modem maker, in the nineties. When I got there we were selling 9600bps [...]
If you look at these numbers you will see that the national debt has gone up every year since 1969 except the last four years of the Clinton administration budget: Revenues, Outlays, Deficits, Surpluses, and Debt Held by the Public, 1968 to 2007, in Billions of Dollars Sources: Congressional Budget Office; Office of Management and Budget. [...]
Unemployment Under President George W. Bush The unemployment rate in 2000 was 4.0% The unemployment rate in 2009 was 9.3% The rate went from 4.0% to 7.7% under President Bush, 3.7% over his administration. http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat1.pdf Unemployment Under President Obama Current estimates are 9.6% President Obama took office on January 20, 2009 In January 2009 [...]
