A Forum for Concerned Tax Payers

Election Results Give Some Democrats Health-Care Jitters

Article Source – wsj.com Author – Martin Vaughan WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–Republican victories in two gubernatorial elections are casting a shadow on House Democratic efforts to secure support from wavering members for health-care legislation. The GOP is framing the outcome as a rejection of Democratic proposals including the health-care bill, and some conservative and vulnerable Democrats [...]

Get Active – Health Care “House Call”

Article Source – americansforprosperity.org Find Your Representatives’ Local Offices Below Join fellow freedom fighters in standing up one more time by going to their in-state office on November 5 with a simple message — “Keep your hands off my health care”. Please use the interactive search box below to find the office nearest to you. [...]

About That Stimulus: The Shovel Wasn’t Ready

Article Source – www.american.com Authors – Alex Brill and Rachel Forward Many ‘shovel-ready’ projects are still tied up in administrative red tape. It is clear that the stimulus bill has done little thus far to help get workers back to work. When President Obama signed the $787 billion stimulus bill last February, the administration projected [...]

Capitol to be filled with livid Americans

Article Source – www.wnd.com Author – Chelsea Schilling Citizens return to D.C. to warn Congress, ‘Keep your hands off my health care’ Lawmakers are calling on Americans to storm the Capitol on Thursday in an “Emergency House Call on Congress” to stop the House from passing the Democrats’ health-care bill this week. A group of [...]

Ron Paul on Larry King – A Right to take something from others?

Clunkers program leaves small dent

Article Source – www.pekintimes.com Author – Ed McMenamin Local car dealers say a limited amount of qualifying inventory from Detroit hindered the number of Cash for Clunkers deals late this summer. The federal program generated nearly 700,000 new car sales nationally during August, giving theU.S. auto industry a badly needed jolt of activity during the [...]

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is CAGW’s October Porker of the Month

Article Source – www.cagw.org Washington, D.C. – Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) its October Porker of the Month. The four-term senator from Texas is loading up her goodie bag just before Halloween as she prepares to leave the Senate to run for governor. While claiming to be a [...]

Taxpayer Money Flying Out the Door

Article Source – www.cagw.org Author – David Williams Even if many Americans don’t think that the stimulus package is working, there is still a desire to ensure that the money is being spent wisely rather than being thrown down a rat hole.  But, the news that is trickling out from the states does not look [...]

Has the US killed any chance of a climate accord at Copenhagen?

Article Source – www.bbc.co.uk Author – Justin Rowlatt <img src=”http://www.citris-uc.org/files/cop_logo_1_r.jpg” width=300 height=1200/> There are just 42 days left until the world’s environment ministers will sit down around the negotiating table in Copenhagen to try to agree a deal to begin to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The original objective for the conference was to produce a [...]

Bill Summary: Affordable Health Care for America Act

Article Source – www.pbs.org Editorial Comments added House Democrats on Thursday unveiled the Affordable Health Care for America Act. The 1,990-page legislation is a combination of bills passed by three House committees earlier this year. Key tenets include: New regulations | New insurance industry regulations would prohibit insurers from rejecting customers based on pre-existing conditions. [...]