That is how much a new healthcare proposal would cost – one that would cover 97% of the country: The plan carries a 10-year price tag of slightly over $600 billion, and would lead toward an estimated 97 percent of all Americans having coverage, according to the Congressional Budget Office, Sens. Edward M. Kennedy and […]
The more I read this story and think about it, the more pissed off I get. Last week the House passed the tax cuts to extend them to 2010. The tax cuts pertain mainly to capital gains and dividends, meaning that they affect the upper-middle and upper classes of this country. Yesterday the House took […]
Democrats mustard enough support today to defeat a bill to fund health, education and social programs. The bill was defeated because it would actually hurt the nation’s poor. Twenty-two republican’s, mostly moderates, joined the Democrats to defeat the bill. This is just further signs of the GOP unity failing. One big factor could be the […]