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What is in the Senate Healthcare Bill?

With the Senate passing their own version of healthcare “reform” by a vote of 60-39, let’s take a look at what exactly is in the bill and what is going to happen when the bill is merged with the House bill for the President to sign.

-The official Congressional Budget Office estimate of the cost of the bill is $871 billion. The official cost of the bill that the House of Representatives passed is around $1 trillion. The bill’s costs would be offset by the new taxes and fees as well as the money that the Medicare program would save.

-The bill requires …continue reading

True Cost of Bailouts: $14 Trillion

Although the cost of the Wall Street bailout is usually said to be around $700 billion, the real cost of economic recovery is at least 20 times larger according to a recent breakdown of ALL of the government recovery programs by Mother Jones Magazine.

The $700 billion bailout that people usually allude to is only the cost of the TARP program that was passed about a year ago and even then, the bill that contained the $700 billion for TARP cost $850 billion because of all of the earmarks inside the bill.

Here’s a look at other …continue reading

Senate Dems Water Down Bill, Buy Votes for Healthcare

As expected, Harry Reid and Senate Democrats managed to water down the healthcare reform bill enough to get the support of the party’s “moderate” wing while also buying all of the votes that they needed to stop a Republican filibuster.

While the healthcare lobby spent $600 million getting the bill to where the insurance companies want it to be, Harry Reid and the gang used taxpayer money to buy votes for a lousy bill. Here’s a look at just some of the earmarks included in the bill:

-$300 million in extra Medicare funding for Senator Mary Landrieu’s …continue reading

Rudy Not Running For Office, Endorses Lazio

It appears that the political gods are in fact merciful and Rudy Giuliani will in fact not run for office in 2010. On Tuesday, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani announced that he will not run for governor or senator in 2010, putting an end to months of relentless rumors about his political future.

Giuliani had been riding the September 11 gravy train after his term as mayor of New York expired and was doing a good job of it as he continuously reminded us of the fact that he was mayor of New York when it was …continue reading

What To Do With All The Snow

Snow can be wonderful… if you don’t live in the city. There’s skiing, snowboarding, sledding, making snowmen and snow angels.. but when you live in the city, there’s no room to do all this! So… what can you do when there’s this much snow out?

1) Go to Central Park, Prospect Park, or any other park.

Bring your kids! Kids can sled in the park, make snowmen, snow angels, and have snowball fights! This is pretty much the only place in the city where you can engage in traditional snow time fun.

2) Make snow art!

Buy cheap acrylic paints, and get each of your …continue reading

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What is in the Senate Healthcare Bill?

True Cost of Bailouts: $14 Trillion

Senate Dems Water Down Bill, Buy Votes for Healthcare

Rudy Not Running For Office, Endorses Lazio

What To Do With All The Snow

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