CBS News video of President Barak Obama speaking on legalizing marijuana.
Americans spend a fortune on health care, if they need it and can afford it. Insurance premiums are through the roof and causing many businesses to reconsider employee coverage. I’ve never understood why we have a system set up that almost forces us to get health coverage through an employer. We don’t do that for auto or homeowners’ insurance, why would we do that for our health?
Everyone living in Britain pays three percent of their income into the National Health Service. CBS News reported on this American living in London who found it worked very well for her.
We have to fix the health care crisis in the United States. It’s a mess. While many are looking at the British model for implementation in the U.S., it has its problems too. Check out this segment from CBS News.
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif. 27th District, Sherman Oaks, Northridge) grills Neel Kashkari, Interim Assistant Treasury Secretary for Financial Stability, about whether three million dollar bonuses for AIG employees meet “appropriate standards of executive compensation” as mandated by congress.
Even though the arctic caps are melting and the oceans are rising, we’re facing global water shortages. This video has a catchy song, a dire warning and one solution for today’s drinking water problems.
How many times can the politicians get this wrong? I don’t know, they’re still working on it.
The bank bailout just keeps getting worse. Maybe the economy would get better if the we let the companies run by incompetence and greed get thinned out.
President Barack Obama calls for end to wasteful government spending and discusses order to overhaul government contracts.
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Senator John McCain say’s “so much for the promise of change” in Washington while lambasting earmark spending.
Associated Press video of the Sri Lankan cricket team being attacked March 3, 2009, in Pakistan by men armed with rifles, grenades and rocket launchers.
What more can be said?
I hope the adults are listening, because the kid gets it. Jonathan Krohn addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference about what conservatism means. Just shy of his 14th birthday, Krohn is the author of “Define Conservatism.”