Monday, July 6th, 2009
For all you deficit hawks out there, fretting that universal health care coverage would bankrupt the country, Ezra Klein of the Washington Post offers an interesting graph, showing what might happen to our deficit situation, if we adopt european-style health care. The rising line — that's the status quo/GOP + ...
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
I thought Tom Daschle was a great choice for HHS and for driving Obama's health care agenda, so I was disappointed to hear the news of his tax indiscretions or omissions and his lobbying-by-any-other-name activities, both of which rightfully disqualified him from a position in Obama's administration.
At the same time ...
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Sunday, January 4th, 2009
America's still got it.
Yes we can!
Most people know dumb and fake when they see it.
Interviews in slaughter houses - bad idea.
Separating risk and reward - bad idea.
Self-regulating works equally well with money men and toddlers.
Socializing risk and privatizing profit is government only Republicans could love.
Never entrust government to people who ...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
In my 7 minutes of spare time a day, I've been toiling over a fact- and link-filled post addressing Governor Sanford's "DON'T show me the money" media circus. Sanford is clearly willing to make the most vulnerable South Carolinians suffer to stroke his libertarian ego. I believe in fiscal restraint ...
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
Check out this eye popper on Voltage Blog
Of course, as many have noted, this bailout cost calculation assumes that the assets that the government (taxpayers) bought have zero value. While I'm sure that the Bush Administration and the honchos on Wall Street are working night and day to make it ...
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