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See You in November…
0 Comments | Posted by pontificus in 2010 Elections, Broken Campaign Promises, Budget Deficit, Censorship, Constitution, Economy, Government Incompetency, Healthcare, Obama Lies, Unemployment, Video Clips, War on Terror
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Climate Change Is Natural: 100 Reasons Why
4 Comments | Posted by pontificus in Climate Change, Government Incompetency
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The European Foundation1 has released a list of 100 reasons why climate change (formerly known as global warming) is natural and not man-made2:
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- It’s unclear exactly what organization this is, and the source article did not provide a link to it, though the paper describes the Foundation as “respected” ↩
- As reported by Daily Express ↩
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Imagine There's No Global Warming
Speaks for itself…
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Estimating the Cost of ObamaCare: $6 Trillion And Counting
1 Comment | Posted by pontificus in Economy, Healthcare
Michael F. Cannon of the CATO Institute1 has provided some interesting metrics for estimating the real cost of ObamaCare.
The issue is that while the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) evaluates the cost of ObamaCare at some $1 trillion, give or take, it is restricting itself to the impact to the Federal budget, and excluding several factors that massively increase the real cost of the proposed legislation.
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This One Sums It Up Pretty Well
0 Comments | Posted by pontificus in Budget Deficit, Healthcare
What Obamacare Means For You
Obamacare
- The Efficiency of the Postal Service
- The Sustainability of Social Security
- and all the Compassion of the IRS
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The California Bankruptcy Experiment
0 Comments | Posted by pontificus in Budget Deficit, California, Economy
Nevada Development Authority
The Golden State hasn’t been that golden in a long while. Year after year the state seems to move from one budget crisis to the next. From one massive budget shortfall to another just as big or bigger. If political speeches promising a better future had any worth, the state would be platinum by now.
The experience that California is going through can be very helpful to the rest of the nation.
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Cash for clunkers cost $24,000 per vehicle sold…
0 Comments | Posted by pontificus in Budget Deficit, Economy
Edmunds.com — known for evaluating new and used cars and their markets — collated its seasonal car sales numbers with the results of the cash for clunkers program (aka Car Allowance Rebate System). Their findings were that factoring in new car sales that would have taken place anyway, the government subsidized each true “clunker” replacement to the tune of $24,000.1
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Some Interesting Facts on Government Run Healthcare
0 Comments | Posted by pontificus in Healthcare, Video Clips
Government can run healthcare best, right? Afterall, with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid they’ve had plenty of time to learn from past successes and failures, and not repeat them again, right?
Regardless of your personal opinion, the following video should provide plenty of additional facts to go with the discussion.
A Red-Ink Train Wreck:
The Real Fiscal Cost of Fovernment-Run Healthcare
Source for the video is a blatantly opinionated, but factual1, Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation.
- Expressing opinions as opinions and facts as facts is the proper way to approach a discussion; mixing facts and fiction, and hiding inconvenient facts isn’t. ↩
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