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Baucus health care bill includes pay-offs to senators

By Steve McGough / October 15, 2009 /

You can call them bribes if you’d like. Sen. Max Baucus’s (D-Mont.) health care bill is filled with pay-offs, bribes and graft to other senators just to get his mark up (it’s not in legislative format yet) proposal through the Senate Committee on Finance. This post details those bribes and provides the full text of…

It would cost the federal government zero – GSA insurance for municipal bonds

By SoundOffSister / April 19, 2009 /

Well, that’s what Barney Frank (D-Ma.), House Financial Services chairman, says about a new program he is pushing.  Although, I doubt you have forgotten, this is the same Barney Frank who said, a few years ago, that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in excellent shape and would never cost the taxpayers anything. He was wrong…

Health insurance number one story of the day – clear bias

By Steve McGough / April 9, 2009 /

Talk about a left wing conspiracy. The main stream media mysteriously released more than 200 stories about the lack of health insurance in a 24 hour period. Someone, somewhere is coordinating the effort and the media is in lock step with their agenda. Doug Ross at his DirectorBlue blog puts the story together for us.…

Affordable health care

By Steve McGough / October 22, 2008 / Comments Off on Affordable health care

Walter Williams has another great article this week. Kind of works well with my post on why we should not be electing Obama as president.

The True Cost of Employee Health Benefits

By Steve McGough / June 18, 2008 / Comments Off on The True Cost of Employee Health Benefits

During World War II, companies were having a tough time finding well-qualified employees due to wage and price controls. Salaries were artificially kept low, and to solve the problem employers began to offer benefits including health and life insurance, better pensions, and more vacation time to attract employees. As time went on, employees began to…