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Patty Murry Asks for Health Care Stories

Looks like Patty Murray, one of my Senators from the great state of Washington, is asking for health care stories to push for Obamacare. This is what I posted:

My wife is a nurse and I have friends on medicare or getting health coverage from the VA.

I don't see any evidence that the government is more efficient or effective in those areas so I'm wondering why the solution is to expand coverage to even more people. The government has no credibility when it comes to promoting efficiency and effectiveness in this area.

Americans are more satisfied with health care in the US than in Canada, why are we copying their desire to have the government be in charge?

I doubt she'll use my story in her speech.

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Posted in category “Politics” Friday, Jun 26 2009 11:28 AM | Permalink | No comments | No trackbacks

McCain Speaks About Iran

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Posted in category “Politics” Tuesday, Jun 23 2009 09:43 AM | Permalink | No comments | No trackbacks

Barack Obama—He's Here to Save the Day!

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Posted in category “Politics” Saturday, Jun 20 2009 05:26 PM | Permalink | No comments | No trackbacks

What's That?

(Hat tip to NewsBusters.)

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Posted in category “Politics” Saturday, Jun 20 2009 04:55 PM | Permalink | No comments | No trackbacks

“Craigslist” by Weird Al Yankovic

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Posted in category “General” Tuesday, Jun 16 2009 06:50 AM | Permalink | No comments | No trackbacks

Five Key Reasons to Reject Class-Warfare Tax Policy

The Center for Freedom and Prosperity has a new video:

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Posted in category “Business, Politics” Monday, Jun 15 2009 03:42 PM | Permalink | No comments | No trackbacks

Penny Visualization On Unemployment Predictions

Mr. 10000Pennies is back!

Watch it and really understand what an information dump is.

(Hat tip to Instapundit.)

Update: Via Day By Day we find that 10000Pennies has a blog called Political Math and he posted the video with an explanation there.

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Posted in category “Business, Politics” Tuesday, Jun 9 2009 05:24 PM | Permalink | No comments | No trackbacks

Economic Reporting: Then and Now

(Hat tip to Hot Air.)

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Posted in category “Business, Politics” Monday, Jun 8 2009 06:13 PM | Permalink | No comments | No trackbacks

Updated Employment Predicted vs. Actual

Innocent Bystanders has updated their chart adding actual unemployment numbers to predictions of Obama's team used to sell the stimulus plan to a gullible American public:

Updated Employment Predictions vs. Actuals Chart

The red dots are the official unemployment figures for the past three months. I guess it would have been worse without the stimulus because of the mild increase in government jobs.

It's clear to me that since most of the stimulus doesn't even take effect until 2010 and 2011, it should just be canceled. Poof, I just suggested saving an incredibly much larger amount of money that the Republicans laughable $23B they offered yesterday.

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Posted in category “” Friday, Jun 5 2009 07:39 AM | Permalink | No comments | No trackbacks

Republicans Offer $23B Spending Cut, Whoop-Dee-Do

I should create a “too little, too late” category to characterize the latest effort of the Republicans to decrease the $3.6T budget by 0.64%. What's needed to rescue the economy from the Internet and housing bubble collapses is a sound fiscal policy, a sound monetary policy, and a realistic view of big government spending.

The GOP has no credibility on fiscal restraint, and hasn't since Bush 41, and the Democrats think they are resurrecting FDR in Obama, when instead FDR, Carter, and Obama are all cut from the same cloth. Obama speaks out against deficit spending from one side of his mouth, and spews a $3.6T budget blueprint onto an eager-to-spend Congress from the other.

What needs to be done, now, is to end the stimulus and rescue measures immediately and to focus instead on restoring the capital markets by remaking the United States as an attractive place for businesses that make real things for real people as quickly as possible. That's why I support infrastructure improvements but decry borrowing to make them happen.

I'm unhappy that there appears to be no leader that is making a credible call to end the borrow-and-spend cycle and to strengthen the dollar, but I have no credibility to make them do it myself.

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Posted in category “Business, Politics” Thursday, Jun 4 2009 10:35 AM | Permalink | No comments | No trackbacks