The WSJ takes Obama to task on his complete ineptitude and lack of leadership: If Sen. Obama were truly looking for a kind of deregulation that might be responsible for the current financial crisis, he need only look back to 1998, when the Clinton administration ruled that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could satisfy their affordable housing obligations by purchasing subprime mortgages. This ultimately...
The media’s almost universal opinion that Sen. Joe Biden simply made just another one of his gaffes — when he warned that the election of the untested Barack Obama would inevitably result in a global crisis where our enemies take measure of the man by confronting him and America with a challenge — was dead wrong. It was no gaffe; it was a clear warning that Obama will not only be tested,...
Senator John McCain (R–AZ), the Republican presidential nominee, has proposed an ambitious health care reform agenda. His plan focuses on four key objectives: making health insurance innovative, portable, and affordable; ensuring care for high-risk patients; lowering health care costs; and confronting long-term care challenges.[1] These goals are meaningful, and McCain’s policy measures...
Barack accused Senator McCain of voting against a health care plan, however, Barack left out many salient facts. First, SHIFA provides free or greatly reduced health care and insurance to those families earning up to 200% of the poverty level, $42,000. The Democrats proposed increasing the funding by $65 billion dollars to include families earning up to 400% of the poverty level, $84,000. President...
President George W. Bush gestures as he participates in a roundtable discussion on health care initiatives at the Saint Luke’s-Lee’s Summit hospital in Lee’s Summit , Mo. , Thursday, Jan 25, 2007. White House photo by Eric Draper Fact Sheet: Expanding Health Care Coverage and Lowering Costs President Bush Has Spearheaded Creation Of Health Savings Accounts, Which Are Saving Americans Money...
Setting the Record Straight: Speaker Pelosi Misleads on SCHIP Congress’ Bill Would Expand SCHIP Beyond Poor Children It’s Intended To Help; Move Children From Private To Government Insurance White House News Setting the Record Straight “The policies of the government ought to be help poor children and to focus on poor children. … Poor kids first.” -...
As a republican, it was disappointing to see Sarah Palin push the blame of the sub prime crises onto Wall Street. This was strictly political posturing to feed the American public what they want to believe. Sub prime lending began under President Clinton in the mid 1990’s when he endorsed a mandate to increase home Read More →
“Jim Crow,” a minstrel character popular during the early 1820s, is the namesake of an American system of discrimination and segregation. The Black Codes of the Reconstruction era and railroad segregation laws foreshadowed the birth of the system of Jim Crow, but the Compromise of 1877 can be considered the political event that allowed Jim Crow to come into full power. ...
“Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world — more than 2 Trillion barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush mandated its extraction. Three companies have been chosen to lead the way. Test drilling has already begun…” Read More →
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