Topic: Medicare

Above all other domestic issues facing the United States, nothing surpasses the pragmatic imperative of fixing the federal budget and halting the growth of the national debt . In the spring of 2009, president Obama passed a stimulus package, which was intended ...
Sarah Palin is Big Brother ! Lazy apathetic red staters, who don't become involved with listening to the issues or platforms of the parties, and who don't decide who they are going to vote for until the last week of the election ...

White House Open To Lame-Duck Deal To Renew Tax Cuts

An extension of the Bush income and investment tax cuts for upper earners looks all but certain after the White House signaled Thursday that President Obama won't stand in the way.. Although a deal will be hashed out in the lame-duck session, ...
The gross domestic product number came in at a rather soft 2% growth, up slightly from last quarter's 1.7%. So if inventories are sold in the fourth quarter (think Christmas sales), that will be a drag on the GDP numbers.. In every ...

Is an Obamaville in Your Future?

That's the question asked by a mailer sent in by one of Greg Sargent's readers. It's certainly fair to hold President Obama and the Democrats accountable for not having done more to improve the economy. And while the national deficit costs money ...
When It comes to the dangers of trusting our medical care to government bureaucracy, I know what is going to happen with a 99.9% probability, we are going to have the same mess as the VA (Veteran's Administration) medical system is in ...

Lessons Not Learned

The Obamaadministration has proven to everyone?s satisfaction what Pancho Villapredicted several months ago. Teach a man to fish and he eats the rest of his life.The essaycalls for government spending as a way of recovering from the depression.However, government spending should only ...
Three-quarters of Americans believe that entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security ? By contrast, tax increases are backed by 60 percent of Democrats but only half as many Republicans and 40 percent of independents.. A liberal group called the Progressive ...
Maybe it's because the hair stands up on the back of my neck whenever I hear about people who decide to take the law into their own hands. Then again, it could be because this Joe Miller character is such an obvious ...
The public panned it. Republicans obstructed it. Many Democrats fled from it. Even so, the session of Congress now drawing to a close was the most productive in nearly half a century.Not since the explosive years of the civil rights movement and ...