Posts Tagged ‘health’

Healthcare reform and the Older Americans Act

June 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Barack Obama threw the entire country under the bus with his health care “reform”.  People I know immediately made decisions affecting their very lives based on assumptions Obama said would occur, fully knowing they never would.  How many people made the argument that it would require everyone to have insurance?  Go ahead, raise your hands.  [...]

Obama Taxing health benefits

June 8th, 2009 | No Comments

During the presidential campaign of 2008, John McCain, the straight shooter, said he’d consider taxing health benefits in order to pay for expanding health coverage to everyone else.  It was one of the deciding factors in deciding the race.  Obama jumped all over McCain on the issue, and of course, promied everyone his coverage would [...]

Democrats flee as opposed to discussing gas relief

August 4th, 2008 | No Comments

A rather bizarre event unfolded Friday.  Basically, the Republicans tried to force a vote on drilling for more oil.  The Democrats stifled it.  Then, the Democrats decided that accomplishing nothing to help the United States deal with soaring gas prices was better than debating, or even worse yet, voting to allow more drilling. It didn’t [...]