GasBandit
Staff member
You night shifters are killing me with your voucher debates when I'm not here >_< I'd have loved to jump in that pool... but the opportunity has come and gone. Ah well, c'est la vie. I'm sure it'll come up again.
Ok, on to today's notes:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell did the math .. "In just 50 days, Congress has voted to spend about $1.2 trillion between the Stimulus and the Omnibus ... To put that in perspective, that's about $24 billion a day, or about $1 billion an hour."
Wal-Mart has decided to enter into the world of digitized healthcare data by unveiling its own version of high-tech medical records. Only get this ... Wal-Mart can do it cheaper and faster than the government can! A Wal-Mart spokesperson says the company is partnering with Dell and software maker eClinicalWorks to launch a bundled electronic health records package for doctors. The package will include installation and maintenance and it will be offered through the company's Sam's Club discount-warehouse division, which caters to small businesses. And guess what .. it will be launched by this spring. Just how fast do you think the government could get this done? Lesson? In virtually every field, every endeavor ... the private sector can get it done faster and more efficiently than government.
One last bit about this "wanting the president to fail" bit... turns out James Carville, who is currently wielding the lash to whip the media into a frenzy about Limbaugh "wanting Obama to fail," wanted Bush to fail in 2001, squelching it when the Trade Center was destroyed.
Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri is looking for a change to the Rhode Island tax code. He put together a panel of 20 experts who took six months to study the tax code and make recommendations on how to better serve Rhode Island. And guess what solution they came up with ......... tax cuts! And not just any tax cuts. Tax cuts for the filthy rich and evil corporations. Carcieri officially proposed a series of tax cuts in his latest budget, including the elimination of corporate income taxes by 2014 and the reduction of the top personal income tax rate from 9.9% to 5.5%. The idea here is simple: in a down economy, make Rhode Island more competitive in order to attract and retain businesses that create jobs. And with those businesses come wealthy residents who turn around and invest in the state.
What do economists think of Barack Obama and Timothy Geithner so far? A majority are dissatisfied.
The U.N. Secretary-General says that the United States is a "deadbeat" donor. That's fine. Then stop taking our money. See how you get along then.
The British government says that it is "unbelievably hard" to deal with the Barack Obama administration. But at least you get free DVDs.
Only 27% of Americans say that they support a second stimulus package.
More than one out of every five dollars of the $126 million Massachusetts is receiving in earmarks from a $410 billion omnibus bill is going to help preserve the legacy of the Kennedys.
Apparently New York Governor David Patterson has scrapped numerous tax hikes on consumer goods from the proposed state budget.
50% of Americans are just two paychecks away from having big financial problems.
Ok, on to today's notes:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell did the math .. "In just 50 days, Congress has voted to spend about $1.2 trillion between the Stimulus and the Omnibus ... To put that in perspective, that's about $24 billion a day, or about $1 billion an hour."
Wal-Mart has decided to enter into the world of digitized healthcare data by unveiling its own version of high-tech medical records. Only get this ... Wal-Mart can do it cheaper and faster than the government can! A Wal-Mart spokesperson says the company is partnering with Dell and software maker eClinicalWorks to launch a bundled electronic health records package for doctors. The package will include installation and maintenance and it will be offered through the company's Sam's Club discount-warehouse division, which caters to small businesses. And guess what .. it will be launched by this spring. Just how fast do you think the government could get this done? Lesson? In virtually every field, every endeavor ... the private sector can get it done faster and more efficiently than government.
One last bit about this "wanting the president to fail" bit... turns out James Carville, who is currently wielding the lash to whip the media into a frenzy about Limbaugh "wanting Obama to fail," wanted Bush to fail in 2001, squelching it when the Trade Center was destroyed.
Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri is looking for a change to the Rhode Island tax code. He put together a panel of 20 experts who took six months to study the tax code and make recommendations on how to better serve Rhode Island. And guess what solution they came up with ......... tax cuts! And not just any tax cuts. Tax cuts for the filthy rich and evil corporations. Carcieri officially proposed a series of tax cuts in his latest budget, including the elimination of corporate income taxes by 2014 and the reduction of the top personal income tax rate from 9.9% to 5.5%. The idea here is simple: in a down economy, make Rhode Island more competitive in order to attract and retain businesses that create jobs. And with those businesses come wealthy residents who turn around and invest in the state.
What do economists think of Barack Obama and Timothy Geithner so far? A majority are dissatisfied.
The U.N. Secretary-General says that the United States is a "deadbeat" donor. That's fine. Then stop taking our money. See how you get along then.
The British government says that it is "unbelievably hard" to deal with the Barack Obama administration. But at least you get free DVDs.
Only 27% of Americans say that they support a second stimulus package.
More than one out of every five dollars of the $126 million Massachusetts is receiving in earmarks from a $410 billion omnibus bill is going to help preserve the legacy of the Kennedys.
Apparently New York Governor David Patterson has scrapped numerous tax hikes on consumer goods from the proposed state budget.
50% of Americans are just two paychecks away from having big financial problems.