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Of all of the information out there about this healthcare debate, none put’s it more in prospective than and article written by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar of the Associated Press  article titled Undoing health law could have messy ripple effects.   In it he reports the benefits of Obamacare and just how popular it really is despite all of the reporting done by others to the opposite.   To give you an understanding of what these blind benefits are just listen to it as it is spelled out in the next paragraph and then take a listen to why I think all of this is nothing but a pure case of greed. Mr. Alonso-Zaldivar reports that “even if the Supreme Court overturns President Barack Obama's health care law, employers can keep offering popular coverage for the young adult children of their workers. But here's the catch: The parents' taxes would go up.   Better Medicare prescription benefits, currently saving hundreds of dollars for older people with high drug costs, wo...

The media is going gaga over who’s in and who’s out of the Republican primary run for their parties nomination, while we still face enormous challenges attempting to get those already in Washington to cease with the “mine is bigger than yours” attitude and get down to doing the people’s business.   While many of us have come to realize that the motto of the Republican party is still to do all that they can to make sure that this president is a one-termer, even if it means defaulting on our debts as a country or letting our people starve because the only bills we want to pass are those that assault women’s rights.   Go back and listen to the freshmen class’s campaign promises and tell me how many of them promised to take away a woman’s right to choose raises taxes on the poor and middle class or privatize Medicare and Social Security. Out of those currently vowing for the nomination, it appears that only one really has any ideas as to what he could do if given the chance of...

In a taped interview, after the meeting between President Obama and Republicans, Paul Ryan asked that there cease to be talk about mis-characterization of his plan and civility.   I can remember when Obama asked for this same civility; Ryan did not think civility was possible. After getting hammered from his voters regarding the GOP plan about his Medicare plan, he is now feeling the need for civility.     The saddest part of this development is that even those who may wish to support him and his position will not lead them to the White House.   At what point will America finally demand accountability and not hypocrisy.     They have not proposed one jobs bill but several attacks on women’s rights.   They have not done one thing promised on the campaign trail but have made several attempts to change Medicare as we know it.   They have whined about the deficit but refuse to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire or cut subsidies to big oil. If any ...

A large part of the media is spinning this win by the Democratic challenger Kathy Hochul as a referendum on Paul Ryan’s Budget Plan and while that appears to have a great deal to do with it a larger lesson is available for consumption.   That lesson is the message that was sent by those Republicans voters who chose Hochul over Republican state Assemblywoman Jane Corwin and just how strong the Tea Party may really be in the Republican Party. Lesson one is that Democrats, Independents, a good number of “real” Republicans and even a few Tea Party members no longer feel like they can trust the campaign promises and words of Republicans.   This was brought about when the current office holders promised to bring jobs back but instead spent all of their time concentrating on assaulting women’s reproductive rights and made no clear effort to fulfill any of the promises made.   The call for a smaller government while voting to increase government’s role in all pregnancies, the...

When I was growing up in a small town in Tennessee, we used to be warned all the time about putting the cart before the horse.   Now as a child, I would envision a cart in front of the horse and wondered why anyone would do that especially if they were looking to have the horse pull the wagon.   The GOP appears to be guilty of this very thing. Associated Press’ David Espo penned an article titled Medicare overhaul proposal causing GOP stress sighting “ With Congress just back from a week's vacation, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., indicated Monday that Republicans want to change the subject. Without mentioning Medicare, he said the House majority has been focusing recently on "how to address the deficit (by) cutting back on the expenditures."   Now, he said, the GOP will present a "growth agenda."   They campaigned and won in 2010 on job creation and deficit reduction.   When the new session was gaveled in their focus became strictly about aborti...

What does it say about a country and its leaders when a group of lawmakers are able to pass draconian bills like the one written about in Andrew Taylor’s article for the Associated Press titled House passes $6T spending cut plan?   More important what does it say about the people who put them into office?   It says that the excellence of a nation is at stake and if the people fail to correct this problem, the economy will not be the only thing that falls flat on its face. According to the article “t he House has passed a Republican budget blueprint proposing to fundamentally overhaul Medicare for future beneficiaries while combating out-of-control budget deficits. It would impose sharp spending cuts on social safety net programs like food stamps and Medicaid.   The GOP proposal passed 235-193, with every Democrat voting "no." The nonbinding plan lays out a fiscal vision cutting $6.2 trillion over 10 years from the budget submitted by President Barack Obama.   It cal...

As parents many of us wish to explain and explainable action by our child and in so doing, we search and search.   During this search we sometimes come upon a good enough reason and if they reason could provide us an even slight excuse, we take it.   Could we be doing the same with autism? According to MSNBC there has been an increase of 57% in autism cases from 2002-2006.   The report said that there has been a 600% increase in the disorder and it affects 1 in 110 kids in America.   While this information is astounding it should not be so alarming that we do what we so often do and that is over-react.   We over-react like we did with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and began to prescribed medication for our children which today results in more than average amount of children, teens and young adults now hooked on some type of drug and rely solely on the medical community to solve their aches and pain instead of themselves.   We leave all of our health dec...

It’s about time we started to hear some good news about the Affordable Care Act and the entire healthcare bill fought for so hard by so many.   So far all we have been able to hear is negativity and even though it may go quite far in helping with ratings, it does nothing for those who are actually affected by it.   It is a good thing but it is also a limited thing because only a small percentage of those affected may be ever able to explain it and those who we depend on to bring us the news may never find this. It’s an article by Mark Jewell, Associated Press Personal Finance Writer titled Retiree health cost estimate falls, for a change which reports “r ising health care costs are a given. But for the first time in 10 years, the outlook is improving for new retirees wondering whether they'll be able to pay their medical bills throughout their retirements.   A 65-year-old couple retiring this year will need $230,000, on average, to cover medical expenses in retirement, ...