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"If an Institution is Too Big to Fail, It Is Too Big to Exist"
katsteevns
by katsteevns  Today 6:03 AM   
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Right-Wingers in Congress Love Their Own Govt.-Run Health Care
chestnut501
by chestnut501  Yesterday 5:28 PM    1
 But They Hate Sharing It
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The Quandary With Mammograms: Get a Screening, or Just Skip It?
Lexica
by Lexica  11-6-2009   
 More: Some researchers estimate that as many as one-third of cancers picked up by screening would not be fatal even if left untreated. But right now, nobody knows which ones. So what are women supposed to do? …Hoping to make sense of it all, I consulted several experts. All said mammograms were still important — after all, breast cancer kills 40,000 women a year in this country — but they differed about who really needed them and how often. All agreed that research was badly needed to figure out how to tell dangerous tumors from the so-called indolent ones… Dr. Formenti said the emphasis on screening by groups like the cancer society might have misled the public into thinking that screening could prevent cancer. “It’s a giant misconception,” she said. “…I have to confess that I’m happy if the public gets offended or infuriated” by the debate…"I want taxpayers to say: ‘You have no clarity. Study it. Stop telling us you are a good girl if you get a mammogram.’ ”
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Boston Herald - Cash for Clunkers runs over taxpayers
heartlandinstitute
by heartlandinstitute  11-6-2009   
 Newspaper/Op-Ed
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Banks issued swine flu vaccine before nurses
tabsey
by tabsey  11-6-2009    1
 Shows who people think are more important.
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Economic Stimulation
merrie
by merrie  11-5-2009    1
 I’m a little late to today’s economic-stimulus exasperation party. Sorry. I was busy working at my unstimulated private-sector job, which uses pulp, ink, trucks, pens, notebooks and a lot of eletronics plus electricity and employs hundreds of taxpayers directly and indirectly to tell people how the hacks are trying to shaft them in Boston. It was great. I enjoyed it. Even though, far from looking for or getting any support, we’ve had to fight the government over simple things like the freedom to enter business relationships with other news organizations that might have made us more financially viable. Thank you, Ted Kennedy, liberal lion.
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California's Broken Model
ColoradoRight
by ColoradoRight  11-2-2009   
 In what respects, then, does California "excel"? California's state and local government employees were the best compensated in America, according to the Census Bureau data for 2006. And the latest posting on the website of the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility shows 9,223 former civil servants and educators receiving pensions worth more than $100,000 a year from California's public retirement funds. The "dues" paid by taxpayers in order to belong to Club California purchase benefits that, increasingly, are enjoyed by the staff instead of the members.
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The US is a Failed State
sincitykitty
by sincitykitty  11-2-2009   
 In any failed state, the greatest threat to the population comes from the government and the police. That is certainly the situation today in the USA. Americans have no greater enemy than their own government. Washington is controlled by interest groups that enrich themselves at the expense of the American people.
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Should Inmates Pay Rent ?
ljsdesign
by ljsdesign  11-2-2009    2
 "If the court determines that sheriffs have the authority " as part of their duties and responsibilities " to institute fees, there are millions of dollars in savings to the taxpayers as a result of inmates paying a very small portion of their fees and services," Assad said. Walker said the majority of inmates are indigent, so the money in their canteen accounts is sent to them by family members so they can buy basic items that are not supplied by the jails.To deduct money from those accounts is like placing an unlawful tax on prisoners' families, she said
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GOP Set to Propose Its Own Health Bill
merrie
by merrie  11-2-2009   
 Republicans have talked about a variety of alternatives to Democratic efforts on health care, but decided to put out their own bill after seeing details of the legislation unveiled by Democrats last Thursday. GOP leaders hope to offer the measure as an alternative during debate on the Democratic bill, and a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said Republicans would be allowed to do so. In the Senate, where Democratic leaders are pushing a proposal to create a new government-run insurance plan, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the Connecticut independent, made clear again Sunday that he opposed the idea. The senator said he wouldn't try to block debate on the bill, but signaled he would support any Republican efforts to block a vote on it. by Greg Hitt at wsj.com
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Auto Bailouts- They Just Keep Coming
WhatAreWeDoing
by WhatAreWeDoing  11-1-2009   
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Goldman Sachs Banksters Knew and Bet on Meltdown
blueridge
by blueridge  11-1-2009   
 Filthy lucre on the backs of investors and then got Bailout money from taxpayers too, with the help of their "insider" (and Treasury Secretary) Timothy Geithner. (It helps to have pals in high places.--see Goldman-Geithner connections )
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The First 500 Pages of Obamacare
merrie
by merrie  11-1-2009    5
 • Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens • Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan. • Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter. • Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No "judicial review" is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed. • Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages. • Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives. • Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families. • Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll • Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option,
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Royal Bank of Scotland to be 84% nationalised
JICWyllie
by JICWyllie  11-1-2009   
 More public debt! First money spent on nationalised banks. What next? British Airways? It's all piling more and more debt on the future. I suspect that the future won't pay up.
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Paranormal Taxivity
merrie
by merrie  10-31-2009   
  READ THE BILL Americans are fed up with Congress, and one of the things they’re most fed up with is the practice of rushing massive bills to a vote without reading them or giving the American people time to read them. H.Res.554, authored by Reps. John Culberson (R-TX) and Brian Baird (D-WA), would require all bills to be posted online for at least 72 hours before they are brought to a vote on the House floor. CLICK HERE TO SEE WHICH MEMBERS HAVE SIGNED THE DISCHARGE PETITION TO FORCE A VOTE ON H. RES. 554. http://clerk.house.gov/111/lrc/pd/petitions/Dis6.htm THE HOUSE GOP CONGRESSIONAL TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE http://gopleader.gov/readthebill/legislation.aspx
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Clunkers: Taxpayers paid $24,000 per car
disenchantedcitizen
by disenchantedcitizen  10-30-2009    2
 In order to determine whether these sales would have happened anyway, Edmunds.com analysts looked at sales of luxury cars and other vehicles not included under the Clunkers program. Using traditional relationships between sales volumes of those vehicles and the types of vehicles sold under Cash for Clunkers, Edmunds.com projected what sales would normally have been during the Cash for Clunkers period and in the weeks after. Edmunds.com's estimate of the ultimate sales increase generally matches what industry experts had thought, said George Pipas, a sales analyst with Ford Motor Co. But that misses the point, he said. "The whole purpose of the program was to provide some kind of catalyst to kick-start the economy," he said, "and by all accounts the extra production that was added this year was a boost to the economy." Emunds.com's projection indicates that, without Cash for Clunkers, October's sales increase would be even higher.
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Tax Returns
chintu358
by chintu358  10-30-2009   
 Find the best information on Tax Preparation Service to avoid paying more taxes. The more you know about Tax Preparation Service the better for your financials. This information on Tax Preparation Service can make you informed of some facts which are very advantageous.
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Taxpayers Fund Research on Bugs, College Sex Lives, Facebook, and Rabbit Droppings with Stimulus Bil
jay8h
by jay8h  10-30-2009   
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Fraud Could Undermine Housing Tax Credit as Troubling Report Emerges
merrie
by merrie  10-30-2009    2
 The Government Accountability Office reports that $10 billion had been spent on 1.4 million credits as of late August. As the economy hit trouble in 2008, Congress passed a $7,500 tax credit for first-time homebuyers as a no-interest, long-term loan to stimulate the housing market. The credit was expanded under the economic recovery act passed in February to $8,000, not as a loan, but a fully refundable credit. Economists worry that the tax break is going to those who would have purchased homes anyway, and filling homes by vacating others " as renters become buyers " without benefit to the economy as a whole. Estimates are that more than three-quarters of the expected 1.5 million taxpayers who will have tapped the program would have bought homes even without the tax credit, putting the price to the government at about $43,000 per homebuyer who would not have bought a house without the credit. The Government Accountability Office reports that 59 percent of those claiming . .
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Clunkers: Taxpayers paid $24,000 per car
infidel70
by infidel70  10-30-2009    1
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You can't opt out of the "opt out"! huh?
mountainpalm
by mountainpalm  10-29-2009    3
  But the only reason government health insurance will be more "affordable" than private health insurance is that taxpayers will be footing the bill. That's something that can't be opted out of under the "opt out" plan.
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Pork Report - 28 Oct 09
ColoradoRight
by ColoradoRight  10-29-2009   
 Junket watch: Speaking at a beachfront spa and resort, Federal Reserve Chairman says Americans need to save more and the country must “substantially reduce federal deficits”
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"Too Big To Fail" Bill Unveiled By Treasury Department, House Dems
sincitykitty
by sincitykitty  10-28-2009   
 The bill would force large banks and other financial firms to contribute to a "financial superfund," so that they, instead of taxpayers, would foot the bill for the failure of immense institutions.
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Joe Lieberman: I'll block vote on Harry Reid's plan
jay8h
by jay8h  10-28-2009   
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Lieberman says he'll filibuster Reid healthcare plan
n2sooners
by n2sooners  10-27-2009    1
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Tax refugees staging escape from New York
jay8h
by jay8h  10-27-2009   
 I wonder what will happen when these high tax rates hit the rest of the country?
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Amtrak
mklosinski
by mklosinski  10-27-2009   
 Our government does such a "wonderful" job with the post office and Amtrak, just think what they will be able to do with health care. Write your congressman now.
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US Healthcare System Wastes $800 Billion A Year
merrie
by merrie  10-26-2009    2
 It might be better off creating laws that would wring excess out of the current system. It would avoid risking hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayers money and would yield enough capital to help give insurance to the uninsured.
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Showdown At Wells Fargo
nosebleedlouie
by nosebleedlouie  10-26-2009    2
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Providence Journal - R.I taxpayers distrust arbitration
heartlandinstitute
by heartlandinstitute  10-26-2009   
 LTE
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Barney Frank: Predatory Lender
crmestler
by crmestler  10-25-2009   
 Why is Barney Frank still in charge of the Financial Services Committee? Last years FNMA, FHA (GSE) loans are this years foreclosures. How is that working out for taxpayers. And in addition, lets keep non-paying borrowers in homes for 2 - 3 years without paying. How much is that costing taxpayers. Maybe cheaper to give those borrowers a big Cash for Keys check rather than continue to have a non-paying asset and cost of continuous litigation for a barrage of new federal mandates and state legislation that fuels plaintiff attorneys.
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Government and the Free Market
mklosinski
by mklosinski  10-25-2009   
 If I recall, it was the government that pressured mortgage institutes to loosen up there lending requirement. The next thing you know we have a mortgage crisis, and the housing market slumps along with the rest of the economy. Now we have PrezBO, telling banks how to lend. Deja Vu all over again. The enemy is in the White House. Leave no incumbent in office.
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Living On Less, While Banks Thrive On Excess
debbyski
by debbyski  10-24-2009   
 I hold corporations & government to the same standards I hold myself. I make sure there is enough money in my checking account to pay my bills. If I create a bill, I pay it. If I cause an accident, I admit it, apologize, and pay for it. It's the right thing to do.
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The Congressional Scam that Failed
willhelm
by willhelm  10-24-2009    1
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Tax Consulting Firm
swapnamanikssys
by swapnamanikssys  10-23-2009   
 Find Tax Attorneys? Looking for Tax Planning Law Firm? Don't Panic! We offers Tax Consulting Services in California. Our lawyers have tax planning strategies for tax insurance & education
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Examples Of What Not To Do
merrie
by merrie  10-22-2009   
 at The Heartland Institute. "Not only has it failed to cover many people, but all the false promises surrounding it have distracted Maine from doing anything that would actually help improve the situation." 'Costly, Ineffective Failure' "Maine has one of the highest state and local tax burdens. We should not be adding more taxes for this boondoggle, particularly at a time when Maine families are struggling with record high gas and heating oil prices and an uncertain economy." Past a 'Train Wreck' John Garven, president-elect of the Illinois State Association of Health Underwriters, concurs. "Dirigo is the more 'mature' of the * two programs, and it is already past the train wreck stage ." * Massachusetts 'universal health care' schemes Maine Residents Angered by Expansion of Dirigo Program Subsidy
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New Study Demonstrates Significant Harm From Just ONE Mercury-Containing Vaccine
brightlight4
by brightlight4  10-22-2009   
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Pay Cuts Coming For Bailed-Out Executives
ljsdesign
by ljsdesign  10-21-2009    4
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Ending death penalty could save US millions
Lexica
by Lexica  10-20-2009    1
 More: Dieter says that keeping execution while reducing its costs is not realistic. If less money is spent on appeals, he argues, the risk of executing an innocent person will increase. He said that ultimately, execution does not deter crime as its supporters hope. Capital punishment has been abolished in most western democracies, and after it was eliminated in the US state of New Jersey in 2007, the state saw its murder rate decline. Dieter cites a poll of 500 local police chiefs, which was paid for by the DPIC and released on Tuesday, showing support for ending capital punishment. The survey found that the police chiefs see the death penalty as the least effective tool in deterring crime. They suggest more efficient use of resources -- such as boosting funding for drug and alcohol abuse programs.
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STOPTHECHAMBER.COM
katsteevns
by katsteevns  10-20-2009   
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