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Often in the Health Care debate, people refer to Health Care as a Right.  This is then taken further to argue that since it is a right, the government must ensure  that people have Health Care and if not, the government must provide it.  There are many other things that many people wrongly assume to...
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With President Obama and the Democrat leadership in the House and Senate urging health care reform through reconciliation, several Senators are speaking out against using reconciliation. Reconciliation was set up to allow for budget items to get through Congress after both the House and Senate passed slightly different bills.  However, both parties have used reconciliation...
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Democrats, the ACLU, and thousands of protesters howled about George Bush stealing our freedoms and stomping on the Constitution whenever the Patriot Act came up for renewal.  Apparently the opposition to the Patriot Act diminishes when the Democrats control both houses of Congress and the White House. Earlier this week, both the House and Senate...
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Nancy Pelosi will be busy in the next few weeks trying to determine how do deal with the Charles Rangel ethics issues.   In 2006, Nancy Pelosi  jubilantly declared that she would lead the most ethical congress ever.  However, Pelosi did not consider all the ethics issues that would be presented by Congressman Charles Rangel...
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Senate majority leader Harry Reid has indicated that Congressional Democrats will use reconciliation to pass health care reform.  With the Democrat’s version of health care reform supported by less than 40% of Americans, it is no wonder that barely 20% of Americans approve of the job that congress is doing. Reconciliation is a process that was...
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Once again the media is pushing stories about obscene health insurance company profits.  According to a recent report from Health Care For America Now, health insurance company profits for 2009 were over 56% higher than 2008.  The report also called out CIGNA for a whopping 346% increase in profits. The liberal-leaning, union-bankrolled Health Care For...
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For years, the Federal Government has kept budget deficits lower than they would have been by borrowing money from Social Security.   However, now this borrowing has lead to a situation where Social Security is now in the red.  In fiscal year 2010, Social Security will run a cash deficit of $28 billion. As pointed out at...
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In the recent SOTU address, the President told opponents to the Democrat health care reform plans to come up with better ideas and he will consider them.  The problem is that congressional Democrats have been crafting the health care reform bills in secret and behind closed doors.  They have forgotten that bipartisanship means working...
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By now, most of you have heard about this global warming thing and how it is going to destroy the planet.  For over the last several years, it has begun to be clear that the data from models used to push this hysteria does not match what is actually happening. Recently, there were reports from...
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Once again, the Obama administration is back pedaling on promises that Obama made during the 2008 presidential campaign.  Most recently, the Obama administration was caught continuing a practice that candidate Obama criticized President Bush for during the campaign.  Apparently, President Obama does not see any problems of no-bid contacts now that he is the president. As...
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