About 44 million Americans - one in seven - lived last year in homes in which the income was below the poverty level, which is about $22,000 for a family of four. That is the largest number of people since the census began tracking poverty 51 years ago.
The tragic vision may seem arrogant, hawkish, and unenlightened, even brutish to some but it’s grounded in realism, experience, empirical facts. Conversely, in the vision of the anointed, as defined by Thomas Sowell, many of the ideals are suspended in fantasy — as honorable myths, but myths nonetheless. Krauthammer says it much more eloquently...
Once again, Obama is found to have broken a key promise, this one that you can keep your current health insurance under the proposed health care reform bill that is being considered currently stalled in The House. Last week President Obama addressed the GOP and said this (video): The last thing I will say,...
In an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, President Obama stated he’s ‘happy to admit’ he didn’t change Congress the way ‘he would have liked.’ That’s an interesting choice of words; “happy.” Let’s just clarify, I didn’t make a bunch of deals. There is a legislative process that is taking place in Congress and I...
It's time to recognize that Obama is not the Obamessiah, but just another corruptible politician that must be treated with skepticism. Health care reform isn't what's needed at this point. Government reform is what's needed. Lobbyists have become too powerful and politicians too corrupt. True health care reform is unobtainable...
I’ve had some time to digest Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress on 9/9/09 and so far I have the following observations: First of all, I’d like to address the loss of freedom by the questionably unconstitutional requirement that citizens buy some form of insurance: …under my plan, individuals will be required...
I’m playing around with CoveritLive for a future project I’m considering. I’m going to test it on tonight’s speech on health care from the White House to a joint session of Congress.