Tag: the obama administration
member name: Dave McGill
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May 01, 2009 08:01 PM EDT --
When was the last time you heard a politician put the welfare of the people ahead of the preservation of corporate profits? That may be exactly what Vice President Biden did when he said he was . . .
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September 24, 2009 04:51 PM EDT --
There’s little disagreement that healthcare costs in the United States currently amount to $2.5 trillion per year, or at least for this year.
The average annual cost of a family policy is now . . .
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December 06, 2009 07:49 PM EST --
As the echoes of President Obama’s Afghan strategy begin to fade, the action in the battle zone is heating up. CTV News, Canada’s largest private news organization, reported today that a major . . .
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June 27, 2009 06:48 PM EDT --
Some day, if we're lucky, we'll all be elderly. A few have suggested I might already be there. And, actually, they may have a point, because I felt a little uncomfortable listening to . . .
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September 15, 2009 01:48 PM EDT --
With respect to the ongoing search for savings within the healthcare industry, Medicare costs continue to represent the ultimate honey pot - and confusion seems to be the order of the day.
Yesterday’s . . .
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September 05, 2009 12:46 AM EDT --
The president, without the backup of Ted Kennedy, will be trying to throw his best pitches past the batter this week. The only question is, in the ongoing game of healthcare . . .
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December 05, 2009 02:14 AM EST --
John McCain and the Republican senators want the proposed $400 billion in cuts, which would be mostly to Medicare, restored in the healthcare reform bill. In this respect, they are absolutely right . . .
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March 29, 2009 04:20 PM EDT --
No matter what your political affiliation is, you are likely to see both good and bad in President Obama's newly announced plans for Afghanistan. However, somewhat hidden below the . . .
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August 12, 2009 01:54 AM EDT --
Two months ago, all looked well for healthcare reform. It was a popular president’s highest priority. The public was solidly behind it and the entrenched interests assured us that they . . .
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August 16, 2009 11:00 PM EDT --
For those who have been anxious to learn what circumstances would constitute a victory in the Afghan campaign, an answer of sorts is at hand.
When asked, on Wednesday, how the administration would define . . .
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August 21, 2009 09:19 PM EDT --
Many Americans don’t know what to make of their new president. They’ve never seen one quite like him in their lifetimes.
He seems to have the unique idea that he represents all Americans . . .
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September 10, 2009 07:20 PM EDT --
John Q. Public, as a taxpayer, as a patient, and as just a plain old or young citizen, doesn’t stand a chance against the special interests.
Politicians are awash in oodles of contributions, are . . .
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September 19, 2009 07:51 PM EDT --
While Wall Street crows that “it’s over,“ financial stress continues to cause great pain up and down Main Street. Like an iceberg, most of it lies beneath the surface, out of sight . . .
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November 09, 2009 04:15 AM EST --
For those of you who’ve been waiting 6 ½ years to find even the slightest semblance of a reason for our preemptive invasion of Iraq, your search may be over. But, instead of uncovering . . .
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March 11, 2009 09:05 PM EDT --
In an ironic twist on the "Back to the Future" theme, it appears that our children and grandchildren will be funding a large portion of the current-day job losses being experienced . . .
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October 25, 2009 04:01 AM EDT --
“From the little ACORN a mighty oak grows,” so states the old American proverb. And it seems that ACORN (The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) may just have . . .
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November 16, 2009 05:00 AM EST --
A new Army report reveals that morale is falling in Afghanistan and that mental health problems are greater than the military’s ability to deal with them. Further, soldiers on their second and third . . .
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November 29, 2009 05:47 AM EST --
Well-run corporation know at least one thing very well. They don’t put people associated with the creation of a problem in charge of solving it. They know that if they do, the appointees will become . . .
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November 21, 2009 05:19 PM EST --
Thursday evening, I was watching Glenn Beck rant about the national debt. Naturally, he blamed it all on President Obama. Glenn Beck knows better but, unfortunately, his gaggles of ditto-heads don’t. . . .
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June 22, 2009 12:58 AM EDT --
Neighboring states are watching closely as chaos continues to be the order of the day in Iran. On the one hand, there is concern that the Revolutionary Guard and the paramilitary Basij might take . . .
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