“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” – Albert Einstein Mitt Romney has a tax plan. He wants to lower tax rates for everyone and get rid of some tax deductions. The details of the plan and who will be benefit are hotly debated topics and seemingly an entire industry has … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2012
Put this in your binder- Romney is the better candidate for women
The latest Romneyism to set the political world awitter, “binders full of women,” has reiginited the battle for female voters, with President Obama and his campaign casting Governor Romney as an out-of-touch barbarian set on bringing women back to the 1950s. Romney uttered this now infamous phrase during the second presidential debate in response to a female … Continue reading
Will third time be a charm for Romney?
With the second presidential debate in the past, all the political junkies are gearing up for the third and final contest between President Obama and Governor Romney. If you haven’t been keeping up with the debates until now, here is a brief summary to catch you up. The first debate, domestic policy, was a clear … Continue reading
Healthy, not just “healthy”
Forbes has a list of 10 ‘healthy’ habits that drain your bank account. Those ten are: drinking bottled water, taking unnecessary supplements, having a gym membership and not using it, drinking soy milk, eating organic peanut butter, drinking diet soda, drinking orange juice, buying unnecessary skin treatments, colonics, and eating protein bars. These habits could … Continue reading
What’s Meaningful About Meaningful Use?
As I have learned more about electronic health records (EHR), I have quickly become familiar with the term “meaningful use.” It sounds like a state of utopia, that everyone should strive for, yet like most governmental programs, it is much more complicated than it seems. Meaningful use of EHR technology is when providers properly “improve … Continue reading
Wasted Debate: Biden’s ridiculous performance undermines the political process
Following the first presidential debate, Jon Stewart joked that President Obama had managed to unite partisans with his horrific performance. Not so following the Vice-Presidential debate between Vice President Biden and Congressman Ryan. Partisans on the left and the right couldn’t agree less about what they witnessed last night. Democrats, who have been despondent since … Continue reading
Libya, a big deal?
Yesterday, Obama campaign Deputy Manager, Stephanie Cutter made the comment that, “the entire reason the attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya was because of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.” The attack that took place against the American consulate in Libya and claimed the lives of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans … Continue reading
European Loans Have Secret Beneficiaries
Wealthier European nations in the north cannot continue to subsidize failing economies in the south for long, at least not in the ineffective way they are now. There is a big problem with the European Commission; it often does not place conditions on the loans it gives to countries, unlike the IMF. The result is … Continue reading
The High-Speed Rail Boondoggle
In January 2009, then president-elect, Barack Obama, rode into Washington, DC on an Amtrak train. His, pre-inaugural, one-day trip was a symbolic nod to Lincoln’s similar journey, some years ago. Exactly one month later, now, President Obama signed in-to-law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The ARRA, among other things, provided $8 billion towards … Continue reading
Imagining Debt
$16,168,932,000,000. That is the current US debt burden. That is over sixteen trillion dollars. In order to balance the American debt level, each individual, from tot to geriatric, would have to pay $51,402. The median income of Americans is about $40,000; confiscating all wages would not come close to paying off the debt. If you … Continue reading
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