Since Congress has willfully chosen not to fulfill its duties in passing a budget, I was interested in what they could possibly be doing. I was going to post this earlier, but I thought the vote to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell” trumped even these horrible examples of legislative work…so here they are.
Senator Bob Casey, [...]
I mentioned the YouCut site a few days ago. Week one’s winner was put to a vote last night and it failed 177-240 with all Republicans and 9 Democrats voting for the spending cut. For your amusement, here are the Texas Democrats that voted against the spending cut.
Cuellar
Doggett
Edwards
Gonzalez
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Hinojosa
Johnson, E. B.
Ortiz
Reyes
Rodriguez
You can add them [...]
As much as Obama would like to defend his healthcare “reform” bill, the only way to do so is to ignore its realities. Usually it takes quite some time to see the ill effects of government intervention, but with today’s technology to analyze data and get the word out, we are already seeing the results. [...]
Here is a link filled post for those who are bored today. And all about health care. I mentioned the side effects of Obamacare the other day and the list is growing. Added are the problems of Indiana who might have to kill a popular state health care program because of the costs of Obamacare. [...]
Privatize Social Security
At the end of last week a local radio station briefly mentioned that this year Social Security will pay out more than it takes in. They passed it off as if it was no big deal because we still have the trust fund and it will not run out of money for a [...]