just another article following Cato's Institute's "A Leninist Strategy" which everyone should read. I am looking at mom's hospital bills which would have been covered less than 10 years ago by Medicaire.  explain to me if Medicaire entitlement is so out of hand, why my mom has to pay thousands of dollars for routine ...more

DAN, the reason grads can't get jobs is because while millions of jobs have been exported they were pressured to think that an expensive college degree would get them a job. the young people who are opening organic burger joints or special pizza joints have a better chance of "making it" big  or at least being the...more

What a bunch of ****!  Articles like this are trying to get the serfs to work until they drop, so they can pay for the pensions & health care of the politicians & their families.  I just found out this year that Senator's get "spring break".  I am still trying to find out exactly how many days out of the year our leg...more

a good deal of these  people are probably better off.  they won't be taking overpriced medication which may cause more harm in the long run and the expensive tests (MRIs & CAT scans) might do more harm in the long run as well.   mom never had a mamogram-she is 90 years old. she did not even like to take aspirin.  she f...more

How will the elderly substitute a rent increase, a property tax increase?  This will hit single elderly women the hardest.  I still can't believe Obama put this in his budget.  Social Security is a separate fund & has nothing to do with the budget deficit.

Someone probably divided up an apartment to make extra money.  This apartment probably is not  a "legal" rental & how they are disposing their waste probably is not legal either.

The whole of Texas should secede!  This country has not gotten anything good from them. They can form their own country & elect George W. Bush as president who did a splendid job running the USA for 8 years, or Rick Perry is another good candidate to head the country of Texas.

With so much money, her money would double every few years in the bank if they paid out higher interest rates.  mom & dad probably worked much harder then she ever did in her life - mom was a cleaning lady, dad worked in construction - yet for some reason they did not become billionaires.

What the "experts" don't want to tell you is that America has been undergoing a profound change in it's economic structure.  We having been seeing the effects of this transformation - fewer jobs & lower wages.  The industrial base has been in the process of being wiped out - companies can get much cheaper labor in Chin...more