This week we had Joe Biden assuring as that allowing a bomber on an airplane and the fact his bomb failed to explode is proof their anti-terrorism plan is working just fine. Then, we had him assuring a crowd of people their stimulus plan is working: Not sure how well the crowd bought it. He [...]
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February 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment
Just got the numbers for the Medicaid add-on from the stimulus package. I don’t deal with Medicaid directly, but it indirectly affects what I do in a large way. As such, I was interested in the numbers. However, the bigger picture bugged me more than the dollars I was assigned to look at. In essence, [...]
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Here’s what Hillary Clinton said: “A Chinese company bought Magnequench,” she said in a speech in Pittsburgh on April 14. “The people of Indiana, the company and the elected officials begged the Bush administration to block the Chinese company from moving the jobs to China…. Not only did the jobs go to China, but so [...]
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