Tuesday, June 16, 2009

CBO Releases Obamacare Cost Estimate

Senator Tom Coburn has released a report documenting some of the waste in "stimulus" projects.

 

The Obama administration fired the Inspector General of AmeriCorps for blowing the whistle on an Obama ally who was wasting tax dollars.

 

Obama will release a plan tomorrow that will give the federal government new power to seize companies whose failure could cause too many problems to the financial system.  They're just going to codify "too big to fail."

 

The Congressional Budget Office issued their cost estimate for part of the Senate's health care bill:  $1 trillion over the next decade, and that's only to cover 16 or 17 million more people, a little less than half of the total number of uninsured who are actually Americans.  That means a cost to government of $60,000 per newly insured American over the next decade, or $6,000 per year.  Of course, as we know, government cost estimates are always much lower than what they will actually spend.  Senator Jon Kyl is introducing a bill to make sure that health care will not be rationed by the federal government.

 

In their attempt to be the Obama administration's pet network, ABC will be hosting a primetime special on the Obama health care plan from inside the White House.  ABC says that it will be a fair balance of opinion, but I'm not buying it.

 

The President of South Korea, speaking at a joint press conference with President Obama, said that the Norks will not be allowed to possess nuclear weapons.  Isn't it a bit late for that?

 

The "most transparent administration in history" is blocking the list of visitors to the White House from becoming public knowledge.

 

Guess which profession shares a lot of personality traits with serial killers?

 

Congress is working on a new hate crimes law, as the guy who committed the shootings in the Holocaust Museum still has not been charged with a hate crime.  I guess it's too much to ask for that Jihadist who shot up the military recruiting station to be charged with a hate crime.

 

Another analyst is predicting that the United States will lose its AAA bond rating.

 

The Uighurs who were released from Guantanamo Bay say that China is worse than life at Gitmo.

 

The Peanut (for brains) President is at it again:  Now Jimmy Carter wants to remove Hamas from the list of terrorist groups.

 

The Chairman of the Georgia Senate Education Committee wants to make it a crime to change test scores for students.  It sounds to me like fraud, so why not?  The President of the Georgia Association of Educators would rather blame this on No Child Left Behind.

 

The Warner Robins City Council met last night, and on the agenda were liquor license suspensions, the budget, and pay for the mayor and members of the city council.

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