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发帖数: 4166 | 1 Marco Rubio certainly didn't have a patent on “American dream”,
but he really represents a plebeian can achieve “American dream”. Marco
Rubio is from a working class Cuban immigrant family. His father was a bar
tender and his mother was a hotel house keeper. His competitor Kendrick Meek
is the son of retired congresswoman Carrie P. Meek, that really made a big
difference. Although, the current situation in the USA is not optimistic,
the “American dream” is the spirit of the USA, and th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 Ben Bernanke's Inflation Deception --
and What to Do About It
Ann Coulter
Dear Fellow Conservative,
Prices are soaring. From milk to gasoline, the things you buy every day are
skyrocketing.
Yet when '60 Minutes' asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke what "
degree of confidence" he had in his ability to prevent inflation from
getting out of control, he responded with a jaw-dropping "100 percent"!
Even Diane Sawyer's expression changed, and that hasn't happened since the
late 70's.
Even Andy... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 Posted by Jay Tea
Published: February 8, 2011 - 8:30 AM
The parallels between Massachusetts' health care "reform" program ("
RomneyCare") and the federal health care "reform" program ("ObamaCare") are
many. The problems RomneyCare are having are often good indicators of
problems that ObamaCare will have. And of late, they've both been getting a
lot of attention for those they've chosen to exclude from their requirements.
Under ObamaCare, it's organizations and businesses that have received the
w... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 By Roger D. Luchs
The public's lasting, indeed rising, hostility to ObamaCare has come as a
surprise to the President and his fellow travelers in Congress, but then
omniscience has never been their strong suit.
In 1959, Charles Lindblom, then an associate professor of economics at Yale,
penned a highly influential article entitled "The Science of Muddling
Through." There he analyzed the workings of modern democracies and offered
a compelling explanation for why incremental policy change is a pr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 By Monty Pelerin
The number of Obama supporters seems inversely related to his time in office
. Many wonder what happened to "The One We Are Waiting For."
Obama assumed office in difficult economic times. After a couple of years
of excuses -- which included "the problems were worse than we knew" and the
generic, all-purpose "it's Bush's fault" -- Obama now owns the original
problems and new ones of his own doing. An incomplete report card on his "
accomplishments" would include the following:... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 Washington (CNN) -- A federal appeals court has tossed out key provisions of
the sweeping health care reform bill championed by President Obama, setting
up a likely election-year showdown at the Supreme Court over the landmark
legislation.
A 2-1 panel of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta on Friday
found that the law's "individual mandate" section -- requiring nearly all
Americans to purchase health insurance by 2014 or face financial penalties -
- was an improper exercise of fede... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 By J.R. Dunn
Obama is finished. It's not so much the past six weeks, rough as they were,
as his own actions and responses that have finished him. His showdown with
Congress over the debt limit, which he then ran away from. His
bewilderment at the fact that markets responded to that level of stress with
a serious slump. The lousy job numbers, which anybody but Obama and his
kept economists could have predicted. His insistence on his precious
vacation at a time when the country was deeply sha... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 By Jeremy Egerer
It is oftentimes complained, partially unfairly, that the American lower
classes are getting poorer and poorer. But enough has been written, by
practically every conservative think-tank, about how the welfare state and
anti-discrimination legislation destroy neighborhoods and promote the
business interests of those with poor moral constitutions (leftists,
primarily) by providing layabouts with an arsenal of unreasonable lawsuits.
This article, recognizing the above socioeconomi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 9 By msnbc.com staff and wire service reports
Updated at 3:30 p.m. EST
The U.S. government said Thursday that the man who called himself the
toughest sheriff in America ran an office that has committed wide-ranging
civil rights violations against Latinos, including a pattern of racial
profiling and heavy-handed immigration patrols based on racially charged
complaints.
The U.S. Justice Department's expert on measuring racial profiling called it
the most egregious case he has seen, the department's ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 10 The National Institutes of Health on Thursday suspended all new grants for
biomedical and behavioral research on chimpanzees and accepted the first
uniform criteria for assessing the necessity of such research. Those
guidelines require that the research be necessary for human health, and that
there be no other way to accomplish it.
In making the announcement, Dr. Francis S. Collins, the director of the N.I.
H., said that chimps, as the closest human relatives, deserve “special
consideration and ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 By Staff, Associated Press
December 19, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has denied what he called a "harebrained"
motion by Rod Blagojevich's legal team over what they claimed was potential
misconduct by the foreman at his corruption retrial.
Judge James Zagel also threatened Monday to sanction the attorney who
drafted it for the impeached Illinois governor, who was convicted of charges
including that he tried to sell or trade President Barack Obama's old
Senate seat.
Blagojevich's lawyer as... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 12 Nun famous for kissing Elvis prays for miracle
December 23, 2011
By STEPHANIE REITZ
Associated Press
BETHLEHEM, Conn. (AP) — In the little town of Bethlehem, a cloistered nun
whose luminous blue eyes entranced Elvis Presley in his first on-screen
movie kiss is praying for a Christmas miracle.
Dolores Hart, who walked away from Hollywood stardom in 1963 to become a nun
in rural Bethlehem, Conn., now finds herself back in the spotlight. But
this time it's all about serving the King of Kings, not s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3158 | 13
was
Neither Song or Qing had a military force capable of protecting their wealth
so their richness was just inviting more greedy pirates. This is clearly
not the case for the US who spends on military more than at least the
next 10 countries combined. US does not have to cut spending on defence.
Cutting those global bases would not make the US weak on its military force,
so comparing this to Qing or Song was just laughable. Having a strong
economy is necessary but not adequate. You just need to... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4050 | 14 Wow. You talked as if you were his wife.
I rarely hear anybody say that he didn't commit adultery. I did hear people
say that it's not important.
You are going really extreme.
"She said when Gingrich admitted to a six-year affair with a Congressional
aide, he asked her if she would share him with the other woman, Callista,
who is now married to Gingrich"
This is from wiki -
Gingrich has been married three times. In 1962, he married Jackie Battley,
his former high school geometry teacher, when he... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4050 | 15 from wiki -
Ethics sanctions
Eighty-four ethics charges were filed against Gingrich during his term as
speaker. After extensive investigation and negotiation by the House Ethics
Committee, Gingrich was sanctioned $300,000 by a 395–28 House vote. It was
the first time in history a speaker was disciplined for ethical wrongdoing.[
65]
In January 1997, Gingrich said "I did not manage the effort intensely enough
to thoroughly direct or review information being submitted to the committee
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 Paul A. Rahe · Feb. 10 at 5:21pm
You have to hand it to Barack Obama. He has unmasked in the most
thoroughgoing way the despotic propensities of the administrative
entitlements state and of the Democratic Party. And now he has done
something similar to the hierarchy of the American Catholic Church. At the
prospect that institutions associated with the Catholic Church would be
required to offer to their employees health insurance covering contraception
and abortifacients, the bishops, priests,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 Posted by David McCann | March 23, 2012
When ex-Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith famously excoriated the firm for
caring more about money than client service, and in fact whenever the
redundant term “corporate greed” has been uttered in my presence, I’ve
felt embarrassment on behalf of the poor, confused perpetrator.
Haven’t we known for a long time what makes (most) companies tick? I don’t
mean anything negative by that. Companies should not be embarrassed by
their greed, for subjugating ever... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 Why California’s high-speed rail project is an even greater waste of
federal tax dollars.
21 March 2012
The national media have devoted plenty of skeptical attention to California
’s bullet-train boondoggle—from the ballooning cost of the California High
-Speed Rail Authority project to its shoddy management to the baffling
decision to build the first segment in the lightly populated Central Valley.
But the press has yet to focus on a crucial fact: the bullet train isn’t
just some quirky Left Co... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4321 | 19 http://healthcarereform.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID
History of the Individual Health Insurance Mandate, 1989-2010
Republican Origins of Democratic Health Care Provision
Heritage Foundation's 1989 report is considered to be the conceptual origin
of the health insurance mandate.
The concept of the individual health insurance mandate is considered to have
originated in 1989 at the conservative Heritage Foundation. In 1993,
Republicans twice introduced health care bills that contained an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 Fed Appeals Court to DOJ: You Have Until Thursday to Explain What the
President Meant by ‘Unprecedented’ & ‘Unelected Group’
A federal appeals court has ordered the Justice Department to clarify
comments made by the president when he said yesterday that it would be “
unprecedented” for the Supreme Court to overturn his signature health care
law (“Obamacare”).
“I am confident that this will be upheld because it should be upheld,”
President Obama said.
“Ultimately I am confident that the Supreme C... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 By Dick Morris on May 14, 2012
In Screwed!, we expose the Rights of the Child Treaty which is now being
negotiated by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and will likely be
submitted to the Senate this year (perhaps in the lame duck session).
Twenty years ago, during the Clinton Administration, the Senate refused to
ratify the treaty. But now it is being pushed by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA
).
The Treaty, literally, tells us how to raise our children. And it would be
legally enforceable in Ameri... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 By Andrew Higgins and Maureen Fan, Published: May 18 | Updated: Saturday,
May 19, 11:10 AM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When scholars gathered at Harvard last month to discuss
the political tumult convulsing China’s ruling Communist Party, a demure
female undergraduate with a direct stake in the outcome was listening
intently from the top row of the lecture hall. She was the daughter of Xi
Jinping, China’s vice president and heir apparent for the party’s top job.
Xi’s daughter, Xi Mingze, enrolled at Harv... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 By John Watson
Let us start with a simple premise: It is one thing to emote to an ideology,
yet it is quite another to live out its reality. Generally, liberals tend
to rely upon emotion to push their agenda, while conservatives tend to rely
more on pragmatism. Raising the minimum wage to theoretically provide a "
living wage" to the poor sounds good, but the reality has generally been
higher unemployment of the lower-wage-earners.
A prime example is California. For many years, California gov... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 A handful of charts tell the sad story of Hope & Change:
Actually Mr. Fundamental Transformation has accomplished quite a lot. The
unemployment stats don’t give him adequate credit; unemployment and
underemployment is in the high teens to low 20s.
Keep it up, Mr. President. There are still people who get up in the morning
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 By Jeffrey Folks
Obama's campaign speeches always seem to include a line about how he can
take credit for increasing domestic oil and gas production. As the official
White House website has it, "domestic oil and gas production has increased
every year President Obama has been in office."
On Wednesday, however, his administration put into effect yet another new
regulation making it harder for America's oil and gas companies to increase
production. In fact, that regulation, as the head of the Am... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12955 | 26
You are absolutely wrong on this point. The law you are referring to is a
law that forbid banks from discriminating against people of certain social-
economic status when making loans. The law does nothing to encourage banks
from making risky financial decisions. The sub prime mortgage charges much
higher rate and carries much more fees, insurance requirements that
adequately compensate for the higher risk.
What makes sub-prime mortgage into a risky product is when wall street
investment ba... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10345 | 27 Chicago teachers to strike after talks fail
By DON BABWIN and TAMMY WEBBER | Associated Press – 14 mins ago
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago teachers went on strike Monday for the first time in
25 years after their union and district officials failed to reach a
contract agreement despite intense weekend negotiations that the union said
were productive but still failed to adequately address issues such as job
security and teacher evaluations.
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 September 25, 2012
CNN is defending itself against accusations from the U.S. State Department
that it trampled on the wishes of the family of the slain U.S. ambassador to
Libya in reporting on his fears of a terrorist attack before his death.
The criticism stemmed from CNN's discovery and use of the late Chris Stevens
' personal journal to pursue its reporting about his concerns over security
in Benghazi, Libya. A top State Department official, Philippe Reines, called
CNN's actions "indefensible... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 523 | 29 选区：Durham, NC
方式：Early voting
党派：Rep
学历：理科bachelor
工作：精算师
总统选择： Romney/Ryan
原因：
One of the most important reasons is that Romney UNDERSTANDS MONEY. Being an
Economics major, I totally agree with this man's financial plan.
The biggest concern comes from Health Care Reform, so I quote Romney's words
from his previous debate:
I'd just as soon not have the government telling me what kind of health care
I get. I’d rather be able to have an insurance company. If I don’t like
them, I can get rid of the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2865 | 30 You see this kind of false information delivered by political campaigns are
what I hate the most.
I can see Tonalli here to be a very rational, reasonable person that I would
like to be friends with, but your information is wrong (likely from Romney
campaigns who are professional liars). Obama campaign lie too, but Romney
does it better.
(1) Obamacare will not dictate what insurance people buys. It sets up an
exchange of private insurers, promoting competition to bring down the price.
(2) Obamac... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16594 | 31 很多原因，反正GOP是没问题的，有问题的是天，是地，是DEM。
WASHINGTON -- Republicans across the country were shellshocked as President
Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney in Tuesday’s presidential election,
finishing the race with 332 electoral votes and winning every battleground
state except for North Carolina. The blame game began almost immediately, as
Republicans looked to determine how a vulnerable incumbent like Obama had
found a pathway to reelection.
The evidence behind the president’s victory points toward a stron... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 40 | 32 IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
SECOND APPELATE DISTRICT
DIVISION TWO
Wan (aka Winnie) Tin ) Case #: B222712
)
Plaintiff and Respondent, ) (Sup. Ct. No. CK71139)
v. )
Los Angeles County Superior Court )
)
In re Joshua Tin )
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发帖数: 40 | 33 这就是美国的司法： 腐败至及：
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
SECOND APPELATE DISTRICT
DIVISION TWO
Wan (aka Winnie) Tin ) Case #: B222712
)
Plaintiff and Respondent, ) (Sup. Ct. No. CK71139)
v. )
Los Angeles County Superior Court )
)
In re Joshua Tin )
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发帖数: 40 | 34 请教这是什麽美国政府？？？？
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
SECOND APPELATE DISTRICT
DIVISION TWO
Wan (aka Winnie) Tin ) Case #: B222712
)
Plaintiff and Respondent, ) (Sup. Ct. No. CK71139)
v. )
Los Angeles County Superior Court )
)
In re Joshua Tin )
)
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发帖数: 1509 | 35 By Philip Moeller
November 21, 2012 RSS Feed Print
As you get ready for what I hope will be a bountiful day of thanks, food,
and football on Thanksgiving, try not to laugh if I ask you to consider
adding retirement planning to your agenda. Financial planners note that
having lots of family members gathered for a pleasant day might serve as a
supportive setting for discussing financial matters with children and even
grandchildren.
To help stimulate your thoughts, here are two quizzes. One, from M... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 Citi to Cut 11,000 Jobs as New CEO Moves to Slash Costs .
By MATTHIAS RIEKER And SUZANNE KAPNER
Citigroup, under increasing pressure, said it will eliminate 11,000 jobs,
about 4% of its work force, and take a related $1 billion fourth-quarter
charge. Colin Barr reports on Markets Hub.
Citigroup Inc. C +7.33% set plans to cut 11,000 jobs in the giant bank's
first major strategic shift since Michael Corbat succeeded Vikram Pandit as
chief executive in October.
The move, announced Wednesday, is th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 January 9, 2013 by Baron Von Ottomatic
So sayeth New York Governor Andrew “Son of Mario” Cuomo in his State of
the State speech today as he railed against the semi-automatic rifles with a
detachable magazine politicians refer to as assault weapons and high-
capacity magazines used in said assault weapons and many modern handguns.
As much as I hate to agree with anything spouted by the gun-grabber high
command, it’s very tough for me to find fault in that statement. No one
should need ten bul... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 The Decline of America
By Victor Davis Hanson
February 14, 2013 12:00 A.M.
Why do once-successful societies ossify and decline?
Hundreds of reasons have been adduced for the fall of Rome and the end of
the Old Regime in 18th-century France. Reasons run from inflation and
excessive spending to resource depletion and enemy invasion, when historians
attempt to understand the sudden collapse of the Mycenaeans, the Aztecs,
and, apparently, the modern Greeks. In literature from Catullus to Edward
Gibb... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 Tiny Texas Town, Railroad Surge From New Oil Boom .
By RUSSELL GOLD
BARNHART, Texas—It was a railroad that brought this tiny town into
existence in 1910, when it was named after the stationmaster, William F.
Barnhart. Today that same railroad is putting the town on the map again—as
an unlikely hub of the new American oil boom.
Crude oil production in West Texas is&#
8197;surging again, and a little railroad that
nearly̳... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1041 | 40 英文原文:
The Price of ‘Made in China’
By PETER NAVARRO
HERE is a symbol of China’s assault on the American economy: the Verrazano-
Narrows Bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Staten Island. This landmark,
which opened in 1964, is North America’s longest suspension bridge. It’s
also in urgent need of renovation. Unfortunately, $34 million in steel
production and fabrication work has been outsourced to China.
How did this happen? The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says a
Chinese fabricator was... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 UPS to End Health Benefits for Some Working Spouses of Employees
Company Says Move Is Prompted in Part by Federal Health Overhaul.
By TIMOTHY W. MARTIN
, BETSY MORRIS
and SCOTT THURM
CONNECT
United Parcel Service Inc. UPS +0.99% plans to cut off health benefits to
working spouses of thousands of employees starting in 2014, a move it said
is prompted in part by higher costs related to the federal health overhaul.
The Atlanta-based package delivery giant said in an internal memo to
employees last ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21396 | 42 In an interview with the Washington Post, Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) said on not
raising the debt ceiling, “I think, personally, it would bring stability to
the world markets.”
This is because, in his view, “we need to have that moment where we realize
[we're] going broke.” He firmly told the paper, “I’m not going to raise
the debt ceiling.” He also characterized the current government shutdown as
“the tremor before the tsunami.”
Few agree with Yoho that a failure to raise the debt ceiling, which woul... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 Citizens take law into own hands after cash-strapped Ore. county guts
sheriff's office
When budget woes reduced the sheriff's department in one rural Oregon county
to a bare-bones force, residents decided to take matters into their own
hands -- creating armed patrol groups in defiance of local officials.
Their decision has raised safety concerns with the county government, which
would prefer residents instead hike their own taxes to fund the hiring of
trained deputies. But despite the risks, the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9501 | 44 http://www.opednews.com/articles/Bernie-Sanders-Introduces-by-B
General News 12/12/2013 at 13:25:01
Bernie Sanders Introduces Single Payer Bill: American Health Security Act of
2013
Summary of S. 1782, The American Health Security Act of 2013
The American Health Security Act of 2013 (S. 1782) provides every American
with affordable and comprehensive health care services through the
establishment of a national American Health Security Program (the Program)
that requires each participating state t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9501 | 45 http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_12523427
Debunking Canadian health care myths
POSTED: 06/07/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT
By Rhonda Hackett
As a Canadian living in the United States for the past 17 years, I am
frequently asked by Americans and Canadians alike to declare one health care
system as the better one.
Often I'll avoid answering, regardless of the questioner's nationality. To
choose one or the other system usually translates into a heated discussion
of each one's merits, pitfalls, and... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 Every year thousands of Canadian have no choice but to seek medical care
outside of the country’s single-payer health care system, according a
report from a Canadian free-market think tank.
In 2013, nearly 42,000 Canucks left their homeland to avoid long wait times
and inferior care that plagues their centralized health system.
The report from the free-market Fraser Institute found that 41,838 Canadians
became “medical tourists” in 2013 and sought care outside of their hockey
-loving country. Wh... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 by: Alex Nussbaum
February 12, 2014
(Bloomberg) — Health insurers told to pay $150 billion in taxes over a
decade to help fund Obamacare are now shifting at least part of that cost
back to taxpayers.
Congress passed the insurer tax four years ago to help cover the uninsured
under the Affordable Care Act. Now, the industry is pushing to include some
of the cost in contracts with Medicaid programs for the poor that are
jointly funded by state and federal governments.
The strategy may add $36 billi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 by Jammie
All of these places voted overwhelmingly for Obama, who has suddenly become
the champion of income inquality in between lavish vacations and golf
outings.
The gap between the wealthy and the poor is most extreme in several of
the United States’ most prosperous and largest cities.
The economic divides in Atlanta, San Francisco, Washington, New York,
Chicago and Los Angeles are significantly greater than the national average,
according to a study released last week by the Brookin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 Obama’s IRS spends nearly $100 million on office furniture
By Mary Lou Byrd
Published May 12, 2014
Washington Free Beacon
The IRS has spent $96.5 million on office furniture under the Obama
administration and is now claiming it has insufficient funding to adequately
serve taxpayers.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew testified before the House two weeks ago about
the IRS’ need for additional funding for the upcoming fiscal year. The IRS
is currently seeking an increase of $1.2 billion—a 7 percent raise... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 53215 | 50 堂堂户部衙门不能太寒酸
adequately
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