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Stimulus plan includes adding 1.2 million to Medicaid roles

By Steve McGough / January 30, 2009 /

Instead of dealing with nationalizing health care out in the open, the Obama stimulus plan takes the incremental – but significant step – to add more than one million Americans to the Medicaid roles if they are unemployed, or will soon be unemployed. This plan also includes millionaires who were laid off and not only…

Capitalism edges out socialism in poll – Video “Blame The Capitalists”

By Erik Blazynski / April 9, 2009 /

Socialism is bad, OK?

Government does not always have to “do something”

By Steve McGough / June 10, 2009 /

I’ve been thinking about health care, the auto industry, mortgages, banking, housing and even the self-imposed energy crisis. With every one, Americans seem to have fallen into some desire for the federal government to step in and fix it. They need to do something!

“Obama On Your Shoulder … Again”

By Jim Vicevich / January 31, 2009 /

“You can’t drive your SUVs and heat your home to 73 … ” and yada, yada, yada. And this coming from the man who heats his home, well our home, to above 73. Now he wants to take away your SUVs too. No really … he does. RVO Reader Nick writes: SEMA is the specialty…

Confirmed again – Schwarzenegger not a conservative

By Steve McGough / July 26, 2008 /

From either the conservatives-already-knew-this or Rush-told-you-so files; Arnold, the muscle-clad governor of California, confirmed once again that he is indeed, not a conservative. Nanny State Alert! Since California has now become the first state in the Union to ban trans fats, I’m wondering what is next. Since I have a friend that occasionally gets sick…

Bloomberg: Donated food not good enough in New York City

By Steve McGough / March 19, 2012 /

You see, the government is the only group that is qualified enough to cook and provide food at facilities service New York Cities homeless.

New Illinois law requires photo ID to purchase over-the-counter drain cleaner

By Steve McGough / January 24, 2012 /

If you want the plain-old Drano, you don’t need an ID. But if you want to buy the heavy-duty stuff at Home Depot or your local Ace Hardware store, you’ll have to show a photo ID. Your name, address, birth date, time and date of purchase, as well as the net weight of the product…

Nanny State: Students forbidden from bringing lunch from home

By Steve McGough / April 11, 2011 /

Is this isolated or does it happen in other places too? A Chicago public elementary school forbids students from bringing their own lunches to school in and effort to control what they eat.

Obama says look at excess regulation – How about calorie counts on menus?

By Steve McGough / January 19, 2011 /

Yesterday, President Obama had an OpEd piece – yes, he really did – in the Wall Street Journal calling for a review of regulations that place “an unreasonable burden” on business. Let’s see if he is serious. How about nixing the stupid part of the health care legislation – a.k.a. Obamacare – that demands restaurants with 20 or…

Get ready for crummy health care part 2

By Jim Vicevich / April 28, 2009 /

The SOS has already blogged extensively on a National Health Care single payer system. So has Steve. So has Dave. So if you need some background you’ve got it. But I did want to get this post up so you can see how emboldened the lefties in Congress feel right now. Why cover your tracks,…