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Why do libs say nothing about tort reform, if they claim to care about health care cost?

– asked: Why not pick some low hanging fruit, how about reasonable limits on jury awards for medical law suits?
If you really care about health care costs, consider the all the costs passed onto the medical consumer due to trial lawyers and fear of litigation:
1) the cost of unnecessary [...]

Posted August 12th, 2010 in Politics | 12 Comments »

Why haven’t Obama and the DNC discussed yet what current policies need to be changed?

Eric S asked: I have always been a Democrat, but this Democratic National Convention is honestly one of the weakest campaigns I’ve ever seen in my life. The following questions have yet to be addressed at the DNC:
1) In what ways will Senator Barack Obama will make the most effective leader to carry out and [...]

Posted July 27th, 2010 in Politics | 8 Comments »

Will all these stores closing cause a depression worse than the 1930’s?

Uncle Sam Rothschilds asked: The real economy contracting rapidly
Behind the reassuring statements from Paulson and others that the “worst is over” the reality of the credit collapse since August 2007 is a deepening economic contraction which I have said several times in this space will surpass the Great Depression of the 1929-1938 period. [...]

Posted July 21st, 2010 in Politics | 5 Comments »

As if we needed more proof Obama is above his paygrade?

Quaestori ulterior Hispania asked: Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’ (Update1)
By Roger Runningen and Hans Nichols
May 14 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.
“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama [...]

Posted July 14th, 2010 in Politics | 8 Comments »

If health care reform is about cost, why is no one talking about tort reform?

_ asked: Our health care industry is SO litigious, patients are forced to endure and finance needless procedures, tests and operations in fear of trial lawyers and run-away juries. The cost for malpractice insurance is passed onto the consumer, the cost for jury awards is passed onto the consumer too!
Why not have caps [...]

Posted July 6th, 2010 in Politics | 9 Comments »

Are conservatives anti-education because nearly every discipline proves some part of their religion is false?

Biff H asked: It’s not just evolution. (Astronomy and geology have also proven the bible wrong.)
And it’s not just science. (Philology, or the study of ancient texts, often paired with comparative religion, reveals practically every biblical idea arising independently in other, older religions around the world. That makes world history in general a threat, as [...]

Posted July 6th, 2010 in Politics | 11 Comments »

Did Barry finally wake up to the mess he has created?

Jimmbbo asked: President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.
“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to pay interest on [...]

Posted July 5th, 2010 in Politics | 17 Comments »

Isn’t this what the tea party people have been saying all along?

Fabian P asked: President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.
“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to pay [...]

Posted June 16th, 2010 in Politics | 18 Comments »

Consumer prices jump, industrial production falls?

Zinger II asked: Is this HOPE and CHANGE in the Obama Economy?
Are we going from The Great Obama Depression to Obamageddon ?
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Consumer-prices-jump-apf-785736054.html?x=0Doris

Posted March 8th, 2010 in Politics | 7 Comments »

Where is that Stimulas “Consumer confidence took an unexpectedly steep slide” How is Obama going to spin this?

Toadhead asked: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Gloomy-US-consumers-clip-rb-2688130524.html?x=0&.v=1
“WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. consumer confidence took an unexpectedly steep slide in June, figures released on Tuesday showed, suggesting the 18-month-long recession had yet to loosen its grip on the economy”
Do liberals still think the “Stimulus Bill” really needed to be enacted before Obama had the time to live up to his [...]

Posted February 6th, 2010 in Politics | 4 Comments »