On Tuesday the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released it’s report – “Budget and Economic Outlook: 2014 to 2024” . The report is causing quite a stir because of the CBO’s estimates of the affect of the Affordable Care Act on the United States economy. President Obama has previously used CBO estimates to provide support for the […]
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The Affordable Care Act and Labor Supply
05 Feb 2014
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Polling on Obamacare Bodes Ill for Dems
19 Dec 2013
There is an eternity between now and the mid-term elections of 2014, so take everything that follows with many grains of your own favorite preservative. However, things are shaping up poorly for the Democrats. I will try to unpack these themes in more detail in future, post-holiday posts, but there are three relevant issues. One, […]
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Reaping and Sowing applied to Obamacare
18 Dec 2013
I am one Berean that believes there is, in general, an ethical cause and effect that we see in this life. I say “in general” in the same sense that we view wisdom literature in the Bible; wisdom that is generally applicable while not always on our timetable (see Psalm 73 for one psalmist’s lament […]
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The Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has told his people that a major appliance retailer in his country is unfairly selling televisions at high prices. His response was to send in troops to take over stores and auction off items at much lower prices. In particular, he believes that his supporters should have plasma televisions. It […]
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What Republicans Need or Don’t Need
05 Dec 2013
Mike Murphy has written a provocative editorial imploring the Republican Party to seize the moment. He is to be applauded for encouraging the party to act, but his proposal represents well the current debate among Republicans regarding how to move forward. For Murphy it is about dispatching the old, uncomfortable positions on social issues like […]
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My colleague Jeffrey Haymond has written a nice blog concerning cronyism in the Obamacare debacle. I am addressing a different but equally important problem—where do we go from here? The Affordable Care Act (now the favorite title for liberals), known popularly as Obamacare is under increasing criticism. Republicans and conservatives are in the forefront of […]
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Or do we have the heart of Crony Capitalism and Crony Politics? The following are so obviously wrong they need little comment; you Bereans will know the wrong as you review. First up, we have Congress packing the bill with all sorts of negatives for us, then Mr. Obama invents a law to allow Congressional […]
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Obamacare: Promises vs. Reality
05 Nov 2013
Jim Geraghty is one of my daily reads as I scan the web for news and notes.* Today, he offers a devastating list of President Obama’s promises regarding the Affordable Care Act contrasted with the current realities. Here is an excerpt: Obama said, on September 26, “Premiums are going to be different in different parts […]
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Fellow Berean Mark Smith highlighted the President’s oft-repeated claim that if you like your health care you can keep it, characterizing it as misleading. Of course, many are using the stronger form of “lie” to describe this. I remember at the US Air Force Academy, the definition of a lie in our honor code was […]
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A Ringside Seat at “The Hearing”
30 Oct 2013
After two hours at the House Subcommittee hearing October 30 on the Obamacare rollout, I asked myself why I had come. After three and a half hours I knew. There were three things to be learned. One: Politicians of all stripes certainly do like to hear themselves talk, and especially, today, Democrats who had little […]
Bert Wheeler
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