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David Broder On The Cost Of Health Care Reform

Yes, it is as exorbitant as many of us have imagined:

Surprise! (Trade Policy Edition)

Asian leaders prefer Bush trade policies to Obama trade policies.

Health Care “Reform” Will Cost Us

As pointed out by Jeffrey Anderson:

Reid’s Massive Health Care Mess

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has finally brought out the health care bill he’s fashioned behind closed doors over the past several weeks, and it ain’t pretty. It’s a massive piece of legislation, but will it actually solve any of America’s health care problems?

Fiscal Cognitive Dissonance

The President informs us that he is worried about rising U.S. deficits. Too much of this, we are warned, and we will suffer a double-dip recession.

How Out Of Whack Are The Obama Administration’s Job Numbers?

Sufficiently out of whack that even Democrats are getting upset with the Administration:

Tax Increases In Our Future

Behold.

The Latest “Created Or Saved” Jobs Flap

This is becoming something of an epidemic:

Sauce For The Goose, And All That

I am in favor of means-testing for programs like Social Security and Medicare; which would constitute one of the better policy responses to the out-of-control entitlement spending we are seeing take place. Something has to be done to control spending for entitlement programs, and means-testing is one of the most effective somethings there is out there.

Paul Krugman Gobsmacks His Readers

I have no doubt that Krugman is a smart guy–I have said so many times, and I have said that his Nobel Prize was richly deserved. But he does so much to make one lose one’s high opinion of him.

- November 21, 2009 -

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