This is a good article in the Wall Street Journal, even if it is news that we do not want to hear.One of the strongest factors promoting recovery from our 10 post-World War II recessions was an unshakable conviction that, regardless of the immediate trouble, the American economy is fundamentally strong. Based on this underlying confidence, recessions and recoveries roughly conformed to the
About one year ago, I took note of Janesville's talk radio host Stan Milam's suggestion that Rep. Paul Ryan should or might join Obama's congressional team of cross party moderates. JG Excerpt : (Nov. 7, 2008) Milam, of WCLO AM radio's "The Stan Milam Show," said Ryan might not want to languish in a Democrat-dominated Congress. Obama's Election Night speech, in which he reached out to those...
The front pages are full of stories about the stimulus, the "failed stimulus" that is: CNN Poll: Blame for recession shifting from GOP to Democrats Stimulus Isn't Creating Jobs - Detroit News No Recovery for Main Street Unemployment rates rise in 29 states Obama takes friendly fire on economy And, last but not least: OBAMA DROPS BELOW 50% IN GALLUP What's going on? What happened to the stimulus...
Can Salesforce.com Talk Its Way To Bigger Profits? (CRM) – fool> Boehner blasts decision to kill investment advice rule – investmentnews> Business Sours on Overhaul as Legislation Veers to Left – online.wsj > Jeb Hensarling and Paul Ryan: Why No One Expects a Strong Recovery – online.wsj> Oil continues slide as dollar strengthens – Nov. [...]
Not if you include the cost of the "doc fix" —the permanent change to Medicare reimbursement rates for doctors—that the House yanked out of their reform package so that its bad fiscal news wouldn't show up in their allegedly deficit neutral health care bill. Here's the CBO , responding to a request from Congressman Paul Ryan, on what happens when you look at the total effects...
Laura Ingraham hosted Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), on his CBO study detailining how ObamaCare will bankrupt America. Ryan said that doctors were supposed to get a 20% pay cut in the health care bill for Medicare patients so it has...
Whoops! The Congressional Budget Office has contradicted Democratic claims that the new ObamaCare bill will reduce the deficit, even in the first ten years of the program. A letter to Rep. Paul Ryan explodes the deficit myth and categorically states that Democratic policies will add to the national debt, and ...
Ryan Press Excerpt : WASHINGTON – Wisconsin’s First District Congressman Paul Ryan spoke out against efforts by the Obama Administration to welcome detained terrorists to the Midwest. What sort of folks did our congressman think the supermax prison facility in Thomson, Illinois was supposed to house? Spongebob Squarepants and Elmo? Besides, isn’t it a little late to begin worrying...
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When even Dave Obey is calling you out , you know you're in trouble: A powerful House Democrat used unusually harsh terms to blast the Obama administration's manipulation of stimulus data Monday night, and demanded an honest accounting of results from the $787 billion government program. [...] "Credibility counts in government and stupid mistakes like this undermine it. We've got too many serious...
The DNC launched a new radio campaign today targeting 32 Republicans who voted against health insurance reform, even though President Obama won their districts in the 2008 election. The ads call out their Representatives for siding with the status quo, and urge listeners to call their Member to ask him or her to “stand up for reform, not the insurance companies.” “Not only did these...
From The Wall Street Journal : In 1997, Congress passed a budget law that mandated tough curbs on Medicare spending, setting up formulas to reduce doctor payments if broad spending targets were exceeded. But when the formula began taking a serious bite out of doctor reimbursements in 2002, Congress acted to reverse the cuts -- a step it has repeated five times since then. That history shows why some...
The Call 'Em Out series continues this week -- and this time we’re calling out the House GOP . All but one Republican member of the House voted against health insurance reform last Saturday. During the 12-hours preceding the vote, GOP members stood at the podium spouting lie after lie in a last ditch effort to kill reform. Watch our video showing all of the outrageous lies from the House debate...
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