Posts Tagged ‘ Congress ’

It’s the end of the year.  It’s the time for Merry Christmas,  Happy New Year and for Congress to look at the national debt.  Oops, I mean raise the national debt spending limits. Not that they have a choice.  If the ceiling isn’t raised, government, as we know it, stops cold.  After all, Obama...
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November 24, 2009 We’ve lost nine hundred plus young men and women in Afghanistan, good soldiers all.  It’s  the  same  though.  Death by war.  The figure is well over four thousand in Iraq.   It was over fifty thousand in Vietnam.   These  deaths, these losses, sadden me as they should, for they diminish me.  I am...
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November 23, 2009 On Saturday, November 21, the U.S. Senate voted to allow the health care bill to reach the floor where it could be discussed.  Not voted on.  Not passed. Just for debate, just to talk about it.   Some of the costs to talk are hidden.  One was not so hidden.  Senator Blanche Lincoln...
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Monday, November 9, 2009 The House has just passed their version of the health care legislation.  One step in a very long journey.  The Senate will now have their shot at corrupting it.   The fact is health care  is really a need.  Not a want or a wish.  It is a bonafide need like air,...
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009 On last  Friday CIT, the largest lender in the world,  filed for Chapter 11 protection under  the United States Bankruptcy Code.  This filing occurred after the Government lent them 2.3 billion dollars of Citizen money.  That’s your money buddy in case you were counting.  The filing will undoubtedly mean that that...
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