Category Archives: Jobs

UPDATED: IRS chief: Buy health insurance or lose your tax refund

Posted by on 4/6/2010 4 comments

IRS chief: Buy health insurance or lose your tax refund | The Daily Caller – Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment. Individuals who don’t purchase health insurance may lose their tax refunds according to IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman. After acknowledging …

Read more »

$588,235 per job created. Or saved!: Weatherization program a flop

Posted by on 3/28/2010 3 comments

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Porkulus Follies: Weatherization program a flop. When Barack Obama signed Porkulus over a year ago, one of its signature programs promised an explosion of jobs in the construction and contracting industries thanks to federal …

Read more »

OBAMA ADVISER: WINTER STORMS TO ‘DISTORT’ UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES

Posted by on 3/2/2010 2 comments

UPDATE 1-Winter storms to distort US jobless figures-Summers | Reuters. WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) – White House economic adviser Larry Summers said on Monday winter blizzards were likely to distort U.S. February jobless figures, which are due to be released …

Read more »

THRILL IS GONE

Posted by on 1/23/2010 4 comments

In Ohio, Obama vows to ‘never stop fighting’ PAPER: Obama’s fortunes set to deteriorate further… Bernanke under pressure; Faltering support for Fed chief… Dow Suffers Worst Week SInce Last March… Obama seen as anti-business by 77% of investors… Europe welcomes …

Read more »

THE DAY HEALTH CARE DIED

Posted by on 1/21/2010 4 comments

THE DAY HEALTH CARE DIED Many rank-and-file Democrats said their stunning defeat in this week’s Massachusetts special election — in which Republicans captured the Senate seat held for decades by the late Edward Kennedy — meant it was time to …

Read more »

Reids Healthcare Bill: 2074 Pages For Your Reading Pleasure

Posted by on 11/18/2009 4 comments

via Reid: I’m So Totally Stoked My Health Care Reform Bill Will “Save” $127 Billion Over Ten Years, Which Is Less than October’s One Month Deficit. 2074 Pages… And senators will have a full three days to read it before …

Read more »

Freddie Mac posts $5 billion loss – Yahoo! Finance

Posted by on 11/7/2009 4 comments

Freddie Mac posts $5 billion loss – Yahoo! Finance. NEW YORK (Reuters) – Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE – News; NYSE:FRE – News), the second largest provider of U.S. residential mortgage funding, on Friday posted a loss of $5 billion in the …

Read more »

Reid: Those tonsil vultures stole my vote

Posted by on 10/22/2009 7 comments

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Reid: Those tonsil vultures stole my vote. Reid brought the bill to the floor in an effort to secure the support of doctors groups such as the American Medical Association (AMA) for the future …

Read more »

After Stimulus: 49 of 50 States Have Fewer Jobs! *6 Million Jobs Shy of Administrations’ Projections…

Posted by on 10/22/2009 5 comments

After Stimulus: 49 of 50 States Have Fewer Jobs! *6 Million Jobs Shy of Administrations’ Projections… Obama trying to boost party money, morale… RNC Beats DNC in Money Race… Dems lock Republicans out of committee room: ‘They don’t know how …

Read more »

Obama’s Success: We Spent $787 billion On The Recovery Act and Lost 3.6 Million Net Jobs

Posted by on 10/16/2009 5 comments

Michelle Malkin » Stimulapalooza: 3.6 Million Jobs Lost is “Quite Positive;” Update: Errors galore. Gaffes in federal reports this week about stimulus have called into question the government’s ability to accurately track how many jobs are being created by the …

Read more »

The Nobel Booby Prize:Russia says New sanctions on Iran “counterproductive”

Posted by on 10/14/2009 2 comments

Russia: New sanctions on Iran “counterproductive”

Senate committee confirms Baucus plan will lower wages

Posted by on 10/14/2009 3 comments

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Senate committee confirms Baucus plan will lower wages. The Joint Congressional Committee on Taxation has analyzed the excise tax in the Baucus plan and come to the logical conclusion that it will raise prices …

Read more »

MUST READ…..CBO: Tort reform would reduce deficit by $54 billion

Posted by on 10/10/2009 5 comments

Hot Air » Blog Archive » CBO: Tort reform would reduce deficit by $54 billion. CBO now estimates that implementing a typical package of tort reform proposals nationwide would reduce total U.S. health care spending by about 0.5 percent (about …

Read more »

Democratic Senator: Oh Hell No I Won’t Read The Health Care Bill

Posted by on 10/2/2009 1 comment

Democratic Senator: Oh Hell No I Won’t Read The Health Care Bill. Sen. Thomas Carper (D.-Del.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, told CNSNews.com that he does not “expect” to read the actual legislative language of the committee’s health …

Read more »

Something terrible is happening… Overpaid celebrities don’t have a big enough voice when it comes to Healthcare Reform

Posted by on 9/30/2009 1 comment