Archive for the 'Spending' Category

How TO Pay for Health Care Reform

By Solomon Kleinsmith | Related entries in Bad Decisions, Bipartisan, Congress, Economy, Fiscal Responsibility, In The News, Independents, Legislation, News, Politics, Polls, Spending

In my last post I detailed some of the roadblocks that have kept the Democratic leadership in Washington from finding a way to pass a major health care reform bill with a public option. They’ve whittled the cost of the bill down a few hundred billion dollars by negotiating concessions from drug companies and hospitals, [...]

July 14th, 2009 | Permalink| 66 Comments »

How NOT to pay for Health Care Reform

By Solomon Kleinsmith | Related entries in Barack, Bipartisan, Legislation, News, Obama, Politics, Spending, Unions

The Obama administration has managed to collect some concessions from hospital groups and drug companies, to the tune of over $200 billion in savings over ten years. This is nothing to sneeze at, but it still leaves the lion’s share of the proposed legislation searching for funding. Setting a requirement for employers to pay a [...]

July 14th, 2009 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Cellulosic Ethanol no longer in its infancy

By Solomon Kleinsmith | Related entries in Business, Economic recovery, Economy, Energy, Environment, Fiscal Responsibility, Fiscal stimulus, Gas, News, Oil, Politics, Polls, Science, Spending, Stimulus, Technology

Thanks to Justin and company for welcoming me on here as a regular contributor. I will be posting on a number of issues, but one area you can expect that I will regularly be tracking is technology related developments and how they interact with the political world and policy. I also live less than ten [...]

July 13th, 2009 | Permalink| 12 Comments »

China Worried About U.S. Spending

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in China, Economy, Spending

As every American in financial trouble knows, it’s never good when your creditors start asking questions. Well, today, the United State’s biggest creditor grumbled about our current spending.
China’s premier didn’t say it in so many words, but the implied warning to Washington was blunt: Don’t devalue the dollar through reckless spending.
Premier Wen Jiabao’s message is [...]

March 13th, 2009 | Permalink| 23 Comments »

Obama should fulfull his promises and threaten to veto the earmark-bloated spending bill

By John Burke | Related entries in Budget, Congress, Democrats, Earmarks, Obama, Republicans, Senate, Spending

 

Thanks to the powerful stand taken by two Democrats, Evan Bayh, a centrist after my own heart, and Russ Feingold, a staunch, principled liberal, both of whom will vote against the $410-billion spending bill as long as it contains 9,000 earmarks, the Senate leadership came up one vote short on moving the bill forward.
 

Congress [...]

March 6th, 2009 | Permalink| 16 Comments »