Posted by: Jeff M. Freeman | November 4, 2010
Generally Speaking…Just Sit Back and Wait!
The mid-term elections are completed here in the US and I sense the past two years have been a huge 360 degree circle. That is, except for those measures taken on by our president such as health care reform, an attempt at economy stimulus and financial markets/car industry bailouts. As I recall the president pledged to succeed in legislating steps to reform health care based on Americans claiming their insurance companies were refusing coverages for pre-existing conditions, medications are too expensive especially for our senior population and some insurance companies were canceling coverage altogether. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, previous presidents nor sessions of Congress were ever able to tackle this subject and successfully pass legislation to act as a baseline for total health care reform until President Obama.
As for the auto industry, our government stepped in and financed a bailout package preventing what would have been hundreds of thousands of jobs lost in the auto industry.
Another financial package was issued to major banks, financial institutions and insurance companies to prevent their total collapse and the consequent collapse of the US market economy. This act alone prevented a major economic depression which would have dwarfed that which happened in the 1930′s.
The ugly side of all the aforementioned is the actual process in getting legislation passed such as deal-making, back-scratching, last-minute earmarks just to name a few.
Take a minute and review your senator or representative earmarks
This last ugly activity is the one which I feel causes the most immediate feeling of the need to vomit – last-minute earmarks. Stop this insanity. This one sited activity should be reason enough to mandate our government be overhauled and the sooner the better. Or like some of those in Congress, we can just sit back and wait.
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The mid-term elections are completed here in the US and I sense the past two years have been a huge 360 degree circle. That is, except for those measures taken on by our president such as health care reform, an attempt at economy stimulus and financial markets/car industry bailouts. As I recall the president pledged to succeed in legislating steps to reform health care based on Americans claiming their insurance companies were refusing coverages for pre-existing conditions, medications are too expensive especially for our senior population and some insurance companies were canceling coverage altogether. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, previous presidents nor sessions of Congress were ever able to tackle this subject and successfully pass legislation to act as a baseline for total health care reform until President Obama.
As for the auto industry, our government stepped in and financed a bailout package preventing what would have been hundreds of thousands of jobs lost in the auto industry.
Another financial package was issued to major banks, financial institutions and insurance companies to prevent their total collapse and the consequent collapse of the US market economy. This act alone prevented a major economic depression which would have dwarfed that which happened in the 1930′s.
The ugly side of all the aforementioned is the actual process in getting legislation passed such as deal-making, back-scratching, last-minute earmarks just to name a few.
Take a minute and review your senator or representative earmarks
This last ugly activity is the one which I feel causes the most immediate feeling of the need to vomit – last-minute earmarks. Stop this insanity. This one sited activity should be reason enough to mandate our government be overhauled and the sooner the better. Or like some of those in Congress, we can just sit back and wait.
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