There was an organized protest against Obamacare outside Representative Kathy Castor's office in Tampa on 03/11/10. Concerned citizens were there to voice their opposition to the healthcare bill and Castor's support of it.
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DSMW was on hand to cover Senator Jim DeMint speaking at The Hillsborough County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner March 06, 2010.
Senator DeMint is known for his work to end the system of earmarks. He has been called the "taxpayers' greatest ally." He is an advocate for smaller government, individual freedom, a strong national defense and traditional values.
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A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.
Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:
U.S. 65%
England 46%
Canada 42%
Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has, if you called the tail a leg? When the audience said “five,” Lincoln corrected them, saying that the answer was four. “The fact that you call a tail a leg does not make it a leg.”
That same principle applies today. The fact that politicians call something a “stimulus” does not make it a stimulus. The stimulus spending
started back in 2008, during the Bush administration, and has continued under the Obama administration, has had plenty of time to show what it can do and it's not good.
Thomas Sowell points out Obama, like FDR in the 1930s, cannot leave the economy alone.
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Now 32, Mosab is the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founder and leader of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Throughout the last decade, from the second Intifada to the current stalemate, he worked alongside his father in the West Bank. During that time the younger Mr. Yousef also secretly embraced Christianity
"I converted to Christianity because I was convinced by Jesus Christ as a character, as a personality. I loved him, his wisdom, his love, his unconditional love. I didn't leave [the Islamic] religion to put myself in another box of religion. At the same time it's a beautiful thing to see my God exist in my life and see the change in my life.
Matthew Kaminski talkes to Mosab Hassan Yousef about also becoming a spy
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The president who finally did give public unions their modern powers was John F. Kennedy. In 1962, Kennedy signed Executive Order 10988, which allowed collective bargaining and gave unions other powers.
The same year Kennedy also gave public-sector unions a tool to justify higher wages by signing the Salary Reform Act of 1962, which established that there be "comparability" of public-sector pay to pay in the private sector.
Amity Shlaes says states will have to dial down pensions for Police, firefighters and teachers
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This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations micro-regulate every aspect of your life in the interests of “keeping you safe.” If you’re minded to flip a pancake at speeds of more than four miles per hour, the state will step in and act decisively: It’s for your own good.
On the other hand, when it comes to “keeping you safe” from real threats, such as a millenarian theocracy that claims universal jurisdiction, America and its allies do nothing.
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If we've learned anything from the bailout of Wall Street, it's that sensible policy making is difficult in the midst of crisis. Embracing new regulations now—while the financial industry remains in distress and emotions still run high—is the wrong strategy.
Instead, a blue-ribbon panel of diverse financial experts should first be established to understand more fully what went wrong in the financial system. The Council of Regulators proposed in the congressional banking reform bills seems like a good place to begin. Then lawmakers and business leaders should devise smart policies that drive at the heart of the problems that led to the financial collapse. Here's a start
Maurice Greenberg lays out the six steps in the Wall Street Journal
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Now, I'll just simply say this. . . . [W]e are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.
Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin Blair House comments on the unstainable cost of Obamacare
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In Indiana's HSA, the state deposits $2,750 per year into an account controlled by the employee, out of which he pays all his health bills. Indiana covers the premium for the plan. Unused funds in the account—to date some $30 million or about $2,000 per employee and growing fast—are the worker's permanent property.
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