Health care costs – Will they go up or down?

One of the biggest campaign promises President Obama is making right now (yes, this is a campaign) is that health care costs will go down if the Democratic plan is implemented. Time after time, we have heard him say that very thing as he travels across the country, touting this plan as the go to [...]

Pay cut for Congress

PAY CUT FOR CONGRESS
Now isn’t that a novel idea? We have all bemoaned the way Congress has acted at times. That goes for Democrats and Republicans alike and I have been as guilty as anyone else, maybe more so. Congressional approval ratings are at a very low level, with Rasmussen reporting that 71% of [...]

What is the job of our elected officials?

Comment by Mr. Pink Eyes in Larry’s post “Obama – Time to make a decision”:
“I also would like to know who he thinks he is. He is supposed to act on the will of the people, not enact laws against the will of the people just because he feels it is right. He needs to [...]

Obama – Time to make a decision

Over the past several months, there has been countless articles written about the debate over health care reform. Since the House and the Senate passed their respective versions of reform, the debate has grown over how they will reconcile those versions into a bill that President Obama can sign into law. Mike and I both [...]

The woes of the United States Postal Service

How many times have we heard this slogan? “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds”. While not really the official creed of the United States Postal Service, it has often been quoted as such and it has been true to a large [...]

President Obama unveils health care plan

First, there was the multiple health care reform plans put forth by the different committees in Congress. Those plans were then molded, melded, and otherwise shaken down and pressed together into the plans that came out of the House and the Senate, respectively. Now that those two plans are being hashed together behind closed doors, [...]

More troubles for Toyota

If there was ever any question that a company can sometimes grow too fast and lose control of it’s direction, let that question be put to rest with Toyota. By now, it is old news that Toyota is in the middle of what is probably the worst trouble it has seen in a very long [...]

Government waste at it’s finest

A lot of discussion has been taking place about the amount of money our government spends every year. Both on Political Realities and on other blogs and in news stories, the new budget of President Obama has been looked at and dissected, cussed and discussed, if you please. The amount of money in question is [...]

Public-financed campaigns

Is there anyone here who hasn’t felt overwhelmed by the amount of money spent on political campaigns? I don’t know about you, but I have bemoaned for years, the fact that it seems to take so much money to even think about being competitive in a national election. It doesn’t matter if we are talking [...]

President Obama and a Republican majority

As I was doing some of my daily reading and browsing through different blogs and news stories, I was suddenly struck with a thought. Correct me if I am wrong, but when President Obama was voted into office, he had something that a lot of sitting President’s have only been able to dream of. A [...]

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