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Reformers' Claims Just Don't Add Up

Many extravagant claims have been made on behalf of the various health care 'reforms' now emerging from Congress and the White House. But on closer inspection, virtually all prove to be false.

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Stimubilization?

Video: Obama vs Obama on stimulus

It didn’t take long for the GOP to rip into the latest White House spin about Porkulus not being designed to stimulate the economy in the short run. The House Republican Conference produced this ad overnight and unveiled it at MS-NBC this morning, apparently hoping to reach those still outside the growing chorus of critics taking aim at the Obama administration

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News

  • Vice President Joe Biden told [9] an AARP audience in Virginia: “You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt? The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.”
  • In a major concession to critics, the White House admitted yesterday that the $787 billion “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” (AARA) was not designed for full economic recovery [10], but rather to “stabilize” the downturn.
  • The President and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce tore into Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) Thursday for what he said were her “condescending” and “God awful” racial statements [11] at her cap and trade hearing.
  • Despite having 1,892 constituents who reported wage, salary, and business income in excess of $200,000, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) told[12] The Hill yesterday: “I don’t know any small businessmen or women making $280,000, so I don’t think it will hit very many small businessmen or women.”

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URL to article: http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/17/morning-bell-obamacare-is-an-economy-killer/

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[9] told: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=51162

[10] the $787 billion “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” (AARA) was not designed for full economic recovery: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/07/should-they-have-called-it-the-stabilization-act.html

[11] “condescending” and “God awful” racial statements: http://blog.heritage.org http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/07/16/black-chamber-head-slams-boxer-words-as-racial-condescending-and-god-awful/

[12] told: http://blog.heritage.org http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZGFkYjQ2MWQ4ZGNhZjE2ZjBlZmQxNzBjOWQ0MTU4NmI=

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Insurance Exec Is Paid Flak For A Leftist Group

Struggling to sell a "public option" of socialized medicine on America, the left needs demons. So here comes, right on time, the focus...

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The Fine Print

ObamaCare: Taxing the uninsured

Keith Hennessey has done a little digging into the House method of paying for health-care reform and sees some significant sleight-of-hand in the details.  Barack Obama says that he wants to provide health-care coverage for all Americans without raising taxes on anyone under $250,000.  Keith points out that the proposal in fact does tax people who make less than the Obama definition of rich, and significantly

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