These are not broken, just broke: Post office, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FDIC and Amtrak, just name a few. ...more

March 17, 2010

Ask your congressmen where in the Constitution it says the government must provide health care to the citizenry. When you look at the programs that the government now runs, you get a dismal picture. These programs, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the U.S. Post Office and Amtrak, all run by the government have one thing in common. They are all broke. With this track record, I think the new so-called health care reform program the Congress is determined to force on us, is destined to be just another miserable expense for the taxpayers. ...more

March 16, 2010

The House's chief Democratic headcounter said today he hadn't rounded up enough votes to pass President Barack Obama's health care overhaul heading into a make-or-break week, even as the White House's top political adviser said he was "absolutely confident" in its prospects. ...more

March 14, 2010

Given that the former 2,000 page Obamacare bill is now up to something like 2,700 pages, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi actually had the nerve to say in front of a group that Congress needed to pass the bill before they could see what was in it! ...more

March 13, 2010

A divided Congress, bending to special interests, uses thousands of words discussing conflicting plans for health care reform without reaching a decision. ...more

March 12, 2010

Panera Bread customers soon will be able to tally calories with just a glance at the menu board. ...more

March 11, 2010

The U.S. Senate has just voted 62-36 for a bill that would extend emergency stimulus funding for state Medicaid programs through June 2011. ...more

March 10, 2010

The word from Washington is that the U.S. economy is starting to rebound from the Great Recession. Here in Florida as a whole and Pasco County in particular, the recession's grip seems as unyielding as that of this endless winter. ...more

March 10, 2010

NASA's space shuttle manager says it wouldn't be hard to add more shuttle flights. The real question is money. Program manager John Shannon said today it costs $200 million a month to keep the fleet flying. ...more

March 9, 2010

Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., is on his way to retirement, largely because his Republican colleagues have concluded the 78-year-old former major league pitcher is a political liability. Bunning is not going quietly: His latest move was to put a five-day "hold" on a $10 billion bill to pay for extended unemployment benefits and other popular programs. Democrats had insisted the measure should be treated as an "emergency" exempt from pay-as-you-go rules. He ultimately relented. ...more

March 6, 2010