11/30: Government Integrity and Ethics
Monty Pelerin: The Federal Government admits to over $12 Trillion dollars in debt. In reality, its obligations are multiples of that number. The unfunded promises from Social Security and Medicare total around $100 trillion. To properly fund the forecasted future deficits in Social Security and Medicare, $100 trillion would have to be put in the fund today. Without this infusion, this liability grows exponentially. Next year, for example, it will be $4 – 5 trillion higher!
11/6: Health Care By Coercive Government
America’s Founding Fathers established a government based on the consent of the governed. They never envisioned a government that ran the lives of its citizens with or without their consent. Suffice it to say they would turn in their graves if they read the 1,900-plus-page health care reform bill the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on Saturday. (Proponents of the bill have promoted it for months using multiple fairy tales that are ably exposed on page 21 by The Examiner’s David Freddoso and Mark Hemingway.)
That American citizens should be fined or even put in federal prison for refusing to purchase government-approved health insurance is as un-American as any idea we can imagine. But such a mandate is the very heart of the bill written behind closed doors by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her privileged pals. If their bill is approved by the House tomorrow, we will be a big step closer to the day when everybody gets their health care insurance through the government or from an approved insurer offering policies that meet meticulously detailed specifications contained in thousands of pages of federal regulations.
11/5: Obama-Pelosi to Health Insurers: Shut Up or We’ll Shut You Down
President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and their Democratic followers in Congress have a rather draconian message for the private sector: Speak now, and we’ll make you forever hold your peace.
Up until a few weeks ago, America’s health insurers were sheepishly on board with the Obama-Pelosi health care reform plan. Perhaps the industry feared that voicing any concern about the plan would unleash the ire of an increasingly rabid Democratic majority on Capitol Hill. As it turns out, the health insurers were right.
10/27: Democrat Senator Likens Fox News’ Glenn Beck to Voldemort
At a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing last Thursday, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) likened Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck to Voldemort, a diabolical character in the Harry Potter series. The hearing focused on the numerous policy “czars” that have been named by President Obama, an issue that has been a frequent topic on Beck’s program.
In her opening remarks at the hearing, McCaskill called Beck “He Who Shall Not Be Named,” a moniker used for the malevolent wizard Lord Voldemort, the antagonist in the bestselling Harry Potter books and films, by those too fear-stricken by his evil deeds to utter his real name.
10/23: 73% of GOP Voters Say Congressional Republicans Have Lost Touch With Their Base
President Obama told an audience at a Democratic Party fundraiser Wednesday night that Republicans often “do what they’re told,” but GOP voters don’t think their legislators listen enough to them.
Just 15% of Republicans who plan to vote in 2012 state primaries say the party’s representatives in Congress have done a good job of representing Republican values.
9/29: ‘Political payback’
Boston Herald Editorial Staff: The Obama administration, in its continuing efforts to curry favor with its supporters in organized labor, is poised to resurrect a policy on federal construction projects that will add billions of dollars to their cost.
For eight years of the Bush administration there was a prohibition on Project Labor Agreements on federal construction projects. Such agreements require either the hiring of union workers or require that those working on such projects pay union dues.
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9/24: Our $2 Trillion Bridge to Nowhere
Stephen Moore: If you want to know why Americans are so fearful of a government takeover of the health-care system, take a look at the results of a new Gallup poll on government waste released Sept. 15. One question posed was: “Of every tax dollar that goes to Washington, D.C., how many cents of each dollar would you say is wasted?” Gallup found that the mean response was 50 cents. With Uncle Sam spending just shy of $4 trillion this year, that means the public believes that $2 trillion is wasted.
In a separate poll released on Monday, Gallup found that nearly twice as many Americans believe that there is “too much government regulation of business and industry” as believe there is “too little” (45% to 24%).
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9/21: 62% Hold Populist, or Mainstream, Views
Sixty-two percent (62%) of voters nationwide now hold populist, or Mainstream, views of government. That’s up from 55% earlier in the year. These voters are skeptical of both big government and big business.
Only four percent (4%) now support the the Political Class, down from seven percent (7%) six months ago. These voters tend to trust political leaders more than the public at large and are far less skeptical about government.
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9/21: Obama’s Next Push Is Amnesty
Jeffrey T. Kuhner: Amnesty is back, and with a vengeance. This was the dominant theme I heard at this week’s annual talk-radio gabfest in Washington sponsored by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the country’s leading anti-amnesty organization.
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9/21: Obama’s Nontax Tax
President Obama didn’t make much news on his round of five Sunday talk shows yesterday, with one notable exception. The President revealed a great deal about his philosophy of government and how he defines a tax increase. It turns out the President thinks a health-care tax is not a tax if he thinks the tax is for your own good.
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