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Pelosi Wants to Pass it So You Can Know What’s In It.
If you ever had a doubt that our representatives read the bills they sign into law, spending trillions of dollars, or if they really care about transparency about what is IN the bills they sign, let Pelosi answer this for you. In answer to the Health Care Bill, she says, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” … Read entire article »
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Do YOU Know What is in the Health Care Bill?
In the video are a few key points of the bill that might surprise (and upset) you. Copy of the Health Care Bill HERE (PDF Format) … Read entire article »
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Marriage Penalty
From the Wall Street Journal Some married couples would pay thousands of dollars more for the same health insurance coverage as unmarried people living together, under the health insurance overhaul plan pending in Congress.The built-in “marriage penalty” in both House and Senate healthcare bills has received scant attention. But for scores of low-income and middle-income couples, it could mean a hike of $2,000 or more in annual insurance premiums the moment they say “I do.” For an unmarried couple with income of $25,000 each, combined premiums would be capped at $3,076 per year, under the House bill. If the couple gets married, with a combined income of $50,000, their annual premium cap jumps to $5,160 — a “penalty” of $2,084. Does this seem fair to you? … Read entire article »
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19 Pounds and Nine Inches Tall
Coming out from behind closed doors is Pelosi’s Health Care bill longer in length than the first one at 1990 pages long. The CBO Puts House Health Bill Total Cost At $1.055 Trillion . Believe it or not, with an estimated 10-year cost of $894 billion, that comes out to about $2.24 million per word. Republicans aide said a print-out of the bill weighs more than 19 pounds and stands nearly nine inches tall. If you want to … Read entire article »
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Republicans DO Have a Plan
Did you know that Republicans have 30+ bills for Health Care reform that have had no acknowledgment from the Obama Administration? When Rep. Joe Wilson shouted out “You lie!” during Obama’s recent address to Congress, no doubt it’s from the frustration of having ideas ignored while Obama stood there, in front of God, the American people and congress and said, “”My door is always open.” From the Washington Examiner: “We knew the president would at some point say something like, ‘and the other side has no ideas,’ ” Price says. So Price and his Republican colleagues brought with them copies of the more than 30 health care reform bills they have proposed in the House this year. Obama didn’t directly accuse Republicans of not having a plan. But he did say he would … Read entire article »
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Obama Health Care: Device That is Implantable
First to say, that I found this story on a site that openly supports Obama 100%. The person does however admit that there is something in the Health Care bill that alarmed him and would surely find disapproval among most Americans. (He says 95%) What does “device that is Implantable” in a health care bill mean to you? I found the bill HERE (H.R.3200 – America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009) ‘National Medical Device Registry 1 ‘(g)(1) The Secretary shall establish a national medical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the ‘registry’) to facilitate analysis of postmarket safety and outcomes data on each device that–CommentsClose CommentsPermalink ‘(A) is or has been used in or on a patient; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink ‘(B) is–CommentsClose CommentsPermalink ‘(i) a class III device; orCommentsClose CommentsPermalink ‘(ii) a class II device that is … Read entire article »
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Storms and a Hurricane
In spite of the storms that have hit Maryland and a hurricane off the coast, we have had great weather so far. Today it became obvious that the two fronts, the storms and the hurricane, are soon to descend on us. The sky looking to the east. Storm clouds to the west. The sea was a fury and most stood along the beach watching. Others played around with the new formations that the waves were making in the beach. Around … Read entire article »
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Dirty Secret Number 1 in Obamacare
I got an email from Chuck Norris today explaining a little known fact in the health care bill, hidden on page 838. For some reason, telling parents how to be parents is considered part of the government’s idea of health care. Dirty secret No. 1 in Obamacare is about the government’s coming into homes and usurping parental rights over child care and development. It’s outlined in sections 440 and 1904 of the House bill (Page 838), under the heading “home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children.” The programs (provided via grants to states) would educate parents on child behavior and parenting skills. The bill says that the government agents, “well-trained and competent staff,” would “provide parents with knowledge of age-appropriate child development in cognitive, language, social, emotional, and motor … Read entire article »
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Just One Town Hall About Health Care
People have concerns about the Health Care Bill that Obama is so quick to rush through. I hope our lawmakers continue to care about what people want and don’t want on this issue: I really liked this lady, she made some great points and her delivery was superb. “I look at this health care plan and I see nothing that is about health or about care. What I see is a bureaucratic nightmare, senator. Medicaid is broke, Medicare is broke, Social Security is broke and you want us to believe that a government that can’t even run a cash for clunkers program is going to run one-seventh of our U.S. economy? No sir, no,” she said. … Read entire article »
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Read the Bill
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) inadvertently gives a great reason why they should take longer than 15 hours after finishing a bill in committee before voting on it on the floor. This man is the: Committee on the Judiciary (Chair) Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties If he needs two lawyers to read and interpret the bills, then we can conclude no one understands these laws as they are written! … Read entire article »
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If You READ the Health Care Bill
In it’s current state, you will find some interesting items according to Economic Policy Journal…. Pg 22 of the HC Bill MANDATES the Govt will audit books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self insure!! Pg 30 Sec 123 of HC bill – THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benes u get Pg 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill – YOUR HEALTHCARE IS RATIONED!!! Pg 42 of HC Bill – The Health Choices Commissioner will choose UR HC Benefits 4 you. U have no choice! PG 50 Section 152 in HC bill – HC will be provided 2 ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise Pg 58HC Bill – Govt will have real-time access 2 individs finances & a National ID Healthcard will b issued! Pg 59 HC Bill lines 21-24 Govt will have direct … Read entire article »
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Fine Print Police
Obama wants fine-print police for consumer products – and that’s good, I guess. “Those ridiculous contracts with pages of fine print that no one can figure out — those things will be a thing of the past,” the president said in a statement accompanying the 152-page draft bill. “And enforcement will be the rule, not the exception.” Let’s face it, credit card companies have used complicated lawyer speak on their policies and statements for years. I have to wonder though, if Obama is so upset at long, complicated pages from seller to consumer, why doesn’t he apply that to Congress? We have a cap and trade bill passing the house, with hundreds of pages, millions of dollars, doing it in a hurry, and admittedly our lawmakers haven’t even read it. Says Michelle Malkin: When I live-blogged … Read entire article »
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Largest Tax Increase in American History Under the Guise of Climate Change
The so called reason for this large tax increase? In all it sounds good, limit pollution and usher in an era of cleaner energy. Critics of the legislation have said it will cost too much to our already weak economy, so they wanted safeguards in place. Even as Democrats have promised that this cap-and-trade legislation won’t pinch wallets, behind the scenes they’ve acknowledged the energy price tsunami that is coming. During the brief few days in which the bill was debated in the House Energy Committee, Republicans offered three amendments: one to suspend the program if gas hit $5 a gallon; one to suspend the program if electricity prices rose 10% over 2009; and one to suspend the program if unemployment rates hit 15%. Democrats defeated all of them. So how much … Read entire article »
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It Happened Last Night
Found on FreeRepublic.com: It happened last night. There was debate on the floor of the House over some amendments to a spending bill. The amendments were offered by Republicans and concerned funding for ACORN and an investigation into Nancy Pelosi’s problems with the CIA. As I understand the story, the Democrats announced that there would be no more votes that evening, and Republicans started heading home. When enough Republicans were gone the Democrats headed back to the House floor and called for a vote to end debate on all amendments to the spending bill. Republicans scrambled to get back into the House, but it was too late. Democrats saved Pelosi and ACORN with their little chicanery. For now. Hope and change? … Read entire article »
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Top Ten Porkiest Projects in the Omnibus Spending bill
According to the Wall Street Journal, it’s been the worst month since 1933. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 119.15 points, or 1.7%, to end at 7062.93. The blue-chip benchmark ended down 937.93 points, or 11.72% on the month — the worst percentage drop since 1933, when it fell 15.62%. The Dow industrials have fallen six months in a row and are now more than 50% off their record highs hit in October of 2007. The S&P 500 fell 17.74 points, or 2.4%, to 735.09. Its financial sector dropped 6.5% and its health-care sector sank 4% on fears that President Barack Obama’s reform plans will carve into the profits of drug makers and insurers. The S&P is off 53% from its October 2007 peak and has now seen its worst six-month drop … Read entire article »
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Payoff for the Election
$819 billion “Stimulus” package? Hang on, there’s more, The Senate version backed by Majority Leader Harry Reid is even worse — it calls for an additional $71 billion in spending — totaling $890 billion. Obama and his Democratic allies are simply wasting hundreds of billions of our money in a clear “payoff” to Democratic Party interest groups and unions that backed him and the Democrats in Congress during the last election. Under Senate rules, the Democrats, led by Harry Reid, must come up with 60 votes to stop the Republican filibuster. That’s why Obama and his allies are launching an all-out effort to pressure several liberal Republicans to cross over and vote for the package, and nothing works like fear. Using words like “crisis” and trying to … Read entire article »
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Pelosi Pork And Big Oil
While we consider big Oil and the price of gas (petrol)… Oh by the way, did you know that big oil companies DON’T control the majority of the oil, about 70 – 90% is owned by, guess what. GOVERNMENTS, depending how you count it. Now it all starts to make sense: Yet Big Oil is pretty small next to the industry’s true giants: the national oil companies (NOCs) owned or controlled by the governments of oil-rich countries, which manage over 90% of the world’s oil, depending on how you count. Of the 20 biggest oil firms, in terms of reserves of oil and gas, 16 are NOCs. Saudi Aramco, the biggest, has more than ten times the reserves that Exxon does. Those with misgivings about oil—that its price is too high, that reserves are … Read entire article »
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Caught Snoozing
At first I didn’t want to believe it. Surely Bill Clinton didn’t fall asleep during a Martin Luther King Speech! Surely the photo lies, and depicts a moment only where he closed his eyes. However, I watched the video, and sure enough, he does nod off, he does anxiously look at his watch, he is just downright rude. As the article suggests, it gives MLK’s “I’ve Got a Dream” a whole new meaning. Article HERE … Read entire article »
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Bill of No Rights
Apparently my sister and her husband are sending me a few good things of late. In my Inbox came "The Bill of No Rights" and although it took me some time to locate the actual writer, I finally found it. Often credited to Mitchell Kaye, a Georgia state representative, it was really written in 1993 by Lewis Napper, who ran for U.S. Senate in 2000 as a Libertarian. Got to love those Libertarians. For that matter, got to love any party that isn’t the only two that dominate Washington and look the same anymore. So here it goes, the "Bill of No Rights" "We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure … Read entire article »
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June 1st
June 1st, 2007 is not a happy day for Marylanders on the grid. Today, our utility bills will begin to rise 50% in spite of our newly elected governor’s campaign promise not to allow this rate hike . (I didn’t vote for him). On his campaign website , he blames our former governor, even President Bush, and vows not to let this increase happen. Add that increase to the 23.5% tax we in Maryland pay for gas , along with rising gas prices – it is definately going to affect the way of life of many. What a dilemna, we won’t be able to afford to stay at home or go out. More Reading in the Baltimore Sun … Read entire article »
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PayPal
Do you provide a service or do work that demands that you accept money that is not in the way of direct deposit or a personal check? I seem to have far reaching clients, all the way to Australia, that I either do web or graphic design for that seems to necesitate an easy way to allow others to provide payment to me. I am really enjoying how PayPal allows this. PayPal accept credit cards, … Read entire article »
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