Archive for the ‘Government’ Category
Al Franken has a problem: DEAR REPUBLICANS: My boss is not my doctor. My health care choices are none of my boss’s business — and none of yours, either. Seriously — what’s wrong with you guys? Signed, Al Franken & YOUR NAME + OTHERS HERE He thinks allowing individual employers to decide how to best [...]
Tags: Al-Franken, communism, Franken, health-care, insurance, nationalized, obamacare, poll, republicans, socialism
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This is the Italian imported Pagani Huarya: This car features 700 horsepower It will go from 0 to 60 in 3.5 seconds. In other words, it will hit 60 faster than you can read this sentence. It will go so fast, so suddenly, and so hard, that it has air brakes to help slow the [...]
Tags: 220, 700, horsepower, huarya, lamborghini, miles per hour, mph, pagani, tesla
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December 11th, 2009 | 4 Comments
I work with a program that provides services to indigent elderly in Kentucky. Mostly in rural Kentucky. Now, by nature, indigent elderly are not the healthiest population. As such, we’ve been very prone to being exposed to every infectious disease known to man. You name it, we deal with it. AIDS, flus, TB. If a [...]
Tags: aging, contagious, h1n1, infectious, kentucky, swine flu
Posted in Government, Health Care Debate | 4 Comments »
September 15th, 2009 | No Comments
The concept of a “public option” in this current health care debate is not novel. It’s not new. It’s just taking what has been practiced in social service and medical care provision for decades and applying it to the insurance industry. That’s all. It’s also well-known that I oppose this. Here’s a reason why I [...]
Tags: consumer directed option, debate, Deborah Anderson, health-care, homecare, kentucky, medicaid waiver
Posted in Entitlement Programs, Government | No Comments »
Here’s the story: The AFL-CIO labor union has a new tax in mind. Specifically, the union wants to apply a small tax — a tenth of 1 percent — on every stock transaction. The tax would especially target firms that use so-called high-frequency trading, which uses technology to oversee many transactions in the blink of [...]
Tags: 1703, afl, afl-cio, American Federation of Labor, Bart Stupak, bill, cap and trade, chaka fattah, cio, congress, Congress of Industrial Organizations, ed markey, energy, fee, flat tax, futures, henry-waxman, house, internal revenue service, labor, Rep Carol Shea-Porter, Rep Carolyn C. Kilpatrick, Rep Carolyn Maloney, Rep Charles A Wilson, Rep Charles Rangel, Rep Chris Van Hollen, Rep Christopher P. Carney, Rep Dale Kildee, Rep Fortney Pete Stark, Rep Frank Pallone, Rep Gene Green, Rep George Miller, Rep Jay Inslee, Rep Joe Courtney, Rep John B Larson, Rep John M. McHugh, Rep Louise McIntosh Slaughter, Rep Mary Bono Mack, Rep Maurice D. Hinchey, Rep Michael F. Doyle, Rep Peter Welch, Rep Robert Andrews, Rep Robert Wexler, Rep Timothy H. Bishop, Rep Todd Russell Platts, SEIU, tax, transaction, union, wall street, waxman-makey
Posted in economic-policy, Energy Policy, Fed Policy, Government, Health Care Debate, Legislative Process, National Debt, Personal Finances, Political Correctness, Trends | No Comments »
September 29th, 2008 | 5 Comments
The gall and stupidity of Nancy Pelosi never ceases to amaze me. Today, with arguably the economic welfare of the United States on the line, and for that matter, several other countries of the world, Nancy Pelosi assured the world an agreement to bail out the struggling spec market was at hand. She’d have it [...]
Tags: bailout, bush administration, community reinvestment act, economic policies, economic welfare, fannie-mae, freddie-mac, house speaker, jimmy carter, nancy pelosi, partisan, political ploy, Politics
Posted in 2008 Presidential Race, Ethics, Fed Policy, Government, Idiot of the day, Legislative Process, National Debt, Politics | 5 Comments »
Yesterday was another one of those mundane days where Congress passed a whole bunch of stuff that means nothing to anyone. Two bills kinda stuck out to me for one very goofball reason: H. Res. 1021: Supporting the goals, ideals, and history of National Women’s History Month and H. Res. 1005: Supporting the goals and [...]
Tags: barbara lee, borderline personality, ideal, lee terry, nancy pelosi, resolution, women
Posted in Fun with Numbers, Government, National Politics, Political Correctness | No Comments »
Remember that promise of change in 2006? You know, the one where the Democrats promised to get rid of the cronyism and corruption in DC? Well, they had a chance to walk the walk yesterday. There was a bill in the form of an amendment to eliminate earmarks completely. Here’s a list of the “changelings” [...]
Tags: Amy Klobuchar, Ben Cardin, Ben Casey, Bill Nelson, change, Debbie Stabenow, earmark, Jeff Bingamen, Jim Webb, Jon Tester, Kent Conrad, Maria Cantwell, Sheldon Whitehouse, Sherrod Brown
Posted in 2006 US Senate Races, Ethics, Government, Legislative Process | No Comments »
October 19th, 2007 | 3 Comments
This is nuts: City health officials took steps Thursday toward opening the nation’s first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot up heroin, cocaine and other drugs under the supervision of nurses. Hoping to reduce San Francisco’s high rate of fatal drug overdoses, the public health department co-sponsored a symposium on the only such facility [...]
Tags: clinic, Government, Health Care Debate, heroin, pete-stark, san-francisco, War On Drugs
Posted in Government, Health Care Debate, War On Drugs | 3 Comments »
August 25th, 2007 | 1 Comment
In 2000, George W. Bush won the electoral college. He however, lost the popular vote. The election was so close that Al Gore challenged one state in an effort to change the outcome of the election. The only reason it was that close was because Gore focused on a hand full of huge electoral prizes [...]
Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, california, electoral-college, Government, Politics, US Regional Politics
Posted in 2008 Presidential Race, Government, Politics, US Regional Politics | 1 Comment »