Election Day Tomorrow

A lot of people are watching the Congressional race in NY-23.  The best summary of this I have found yet is from Cato's Roger Pilon.

 

Each job "created or saved" by the so-called "stimulus" package cost about $230,000.  When people figure that out, the White House calls it "calculator abuse."  The reason no jobs have been created is because they're spending money on things like buying meals for (and votes from) senior citizens.

 

After doing nothing for the last few months, now Republican leaders in the House are set to introduce their own health care bill.  Where was this in July?  Democrats could have a vote on their bill as early as next Tuesday, a bill that the Wall Street Journal calls "The Worst Bill Ever."

 

Jamie Dupree found some interesting things in the Pelosi bill, including a payoff to trial lawyers, and Erick Erickson found what would have to be included as free services under the bill.

 

The Associated Press says that the government option would only cover about 2% of Americans by 2019.  They're wrong.  Cato's Jeffrey Miron says that government should not subsidize health insurance for anybody.

 

Compassionate and competent Medicare loses $60 billion per year in taxpayer dollars due to fraud, while the top ten evil and immoral insurance companies made profits of $8 billion last year.

 

President Obama's Afghanistan is now being compared with LBJ's Vietnam.

 

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says that in the United States "We tax everything that moves and doesn't move" as though it's a bad thing that they don't do the same in Pakistan.

 

What would tax rates need to be in order to balance the 2010 federal budget?

 

The Obama Administration named 110 of the visitors to the White House since taking office.  There's nothing interesting there.

 

While the political elite complains that there are not enough swine flu vaccines to go around, they are still going to offer the vaccine to detainees at Guantanamo Bay.  In New York, children are getting the swine flu vaccine without their parents' permission.

 

Worldwide, corporate tax rates dropped again last year.  Not so in the United States.

 

CIT declared bankruptcy yesterday, meaning that the $2.3 billion in bailout money that company received will never be repaid.

 

Now the media is treating Obama like a Hollywood actress, wondering if he's gotten too skinny.

 

Apparently Osama bin Laden came to the United States in 1979.

 

Congress funded a study on how to avoid their constituents and still stay in office.

 

Men in Langley, Canada are on the lookout for a woman who has apparently attacked multiple men with kicks in the groin.

 

The World's Biggest Outdoor Cocktail Party featured a record number of underage drinking citations.

 

Georgia Pre-K programs are getting $1.7 million in "stimulus" money for upgrades.  I guess the lottery didn't have enough money left to do this thanks to the HOPE scholarship program.

 

Georgia managed to keep its AAA bond rating, but all of the bond raters say that the state should expect steep drops in revenues next year.

 

Black "leaders" in Atlanta are horrified at the possibility of Atlanta electing a white mayor.

 

Sixty city workers make more money than the mayor of Warner Robins.  Yes, the mayor deserves more than $50,000 per year.