Posts Tagged ‘John Salazar’

Prejudice in the name of human rights

June 7th, 2011 | No Comments

Every week opensecrets.org highlights some group.  This week, in honor of President Obama declaring this month “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month”, opensecrets targeted the Human Rights Campaign: Among them. the Human Rights Campaign, which was founded in 1980 and boasts more than 1 million grassroots supporters, has some of the deepest pockets. During [...]

Controlling health care costs through MEDPAC

June 8th, 2009 | No Comments

First of all, let’s see what MEDPAC is.  From their site: The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is an independent Congressional agency established by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (P.L. 105-33) to advise the U.S. Congress on issues affecting the Medicare program. The Commission’s statutory mandate is quite broad: In addition to advising the [...]

Fannie Mae is now an entitlement program

May 11th, 2009 | No Comments

A lot has been made over the collapse of Fannie Mae.  For a while, peeps kept insisting it was apparently a short term blip and that a huge infusion of cash would apparently make everything good.    Other peeps, like me and a few others, have argued that unless they change the rules and allow [...]