Why Health-Insurance Rates Increasing and Policyholders Losing Coverage in WA
Two promises of ObamaCare are proving to be false in Washington state, says leading think tank. June 6, 2013 Hundreds of thousands of Washington state residents – individual policyholders and small group insurance members – are learning two promises of ObamaCare are false. They won’t be able to keep the same coverage they had before [...]
[Read more...]Memorial Day: What Would Abraham Lincoln Say Today?
Memorial Day is a holiday to remember the armed forces’ men and women and why they died to protect our freedoms. What Honest Abe would say today. It’s been well documented that Abraham Lincoln is the political idol of President Barack Obama. Mr. Obama has even tried to emulate President Lincoln, at least, in [...]
[Read more...]Company Lawyers Reveal Their Biggest Concerns – Grant Thornton Study
In-house attorneys feel the threat of economic uncertainty the most – but regulatory compliance and enforcement aren’t far behind – concludes a 2013 Grant Thornton survey. May 11, 2013 What are the salient concerns of in-house lawyers? Their two chief concerns are economic uncertainty, and regulatory compliance and enforcement – according to an authoritative Grant [...]
[Read more...]Scary Reasons Not to Get Giddy over the Unemployment Numbers
News reports on unemployment claims aren’t only misleading, they’re dangerously ill-omened. They fail to report what’s really going on. – May 9, 2013 – Curiously, the news media conveys optimistic stories, and Wall Street investors and others are jubilant over the federal government’s recent jobs reports. The Labor Department reported that initially 4,000 fewer [...]
[Read more...]Union Demands ‘Repeal or Complete Reform’ of ObamaCare
April 25, 2013 - It’s huge that a staunch union supporter of President Obama since 2008 has launched an effort to rid the nation of his signature legislation. The union clearly has buyer’s remorse over ObamaCare. Implying that ObamaCare is not a true “Affordable Care Act,” the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied [...]
[Read more...]Washington Taxpayers Lose Economic Freedoms under Ruling Class, Inslee
March 28, 2013 - Washington state’s ruling class is at it again. After less than four months in office, Gov. Jay Inslee has already violated a major campaign promise he made on taxes to get elected in 2012. “After a year of pledging that higher taxes won’t be needed to fix Washington’s budget woes, Governor Inslee [...]
[Read more...]Even Paul Ryan’s Budget Uses Wrong Map in ‘Path to Prosperity’
March 24, 2013- Sadly, all the fiscal focus – to address the nation’s budget crisis – is between the proposals from Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.). Not to be facetious, but Ms. Murray’s proposal is based on the same old, tired ideas that caused the problems in the first place. It’s [...]
[Read more...]Major Banks Are Too Big to Fail, But Not to Break Them Up
The time has come to break up the big banks. There are 5,000+ banks in the U.S. However, just a dozen of them dominate with 69 percent of the assets in the banking sector. America grew strong as the result of a free-market system. But the nation is barely surviving the Great Recession that [...]
[Read more...]European Commission Promises to Help SMEs on Onerous Laws
March 13, 2013 After identifying European Union laws that hinder small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the European Commission promises numerous fixes. The commission has been reviewing what it calls the most irrelevant or oppressive laws with which SMEs having been coping. “The Commission is making sure that EU legislation is fit for purpose and [...]
[Read more...]Urgent Plea for the Media and Nation’s Leaders from a Wise Teenager
March 9, 2013 “Congratulations America! With the sequestration implemented, we finally cut spending! Right? Wrong! Unfortunately, the American public has just been deceived by politicians and the mainstream media.” -Charlie Kirk, a concerned teenager Can you believe such insights from a 19-year-old? In his post entitled, “How Baseline Budgeting is Bankrupting My Generation,” Mr. [...]
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