We have a huge national debt. Clinton balanced the budget, then Bush unbalanced it. Obama is taking it even further down the red line because of the “spend your way out of a recession” strategy. And now he threatens to take it even further, at least in the short term, with health care reform. So [...]
Category Archives: Politics
Drugs are expensive
August 22 09
That’s a picture of the prescription that I picked up earlier this month, the same one that I’ve been taking for about 4 years now. It’s a one month supply; 360 little pink pills crammed into one translucent orange bottle. And it’s generic, too. A Czech-made knockoff of the brand name produced by Novartis. So [...]
Universal Health Care
February 28 09
Why is universal health care such a politically poisonous idea? Does America really believe that it’s “socialism” and we’d all end up waiting for hours at government clinics for the only MRI machine in the city? What about public schools or public mail? Those seem pretty “socialist”, but nobody seems to care about that. Or [...]
Intellectual Citizen
September 15 05
I’ve been tweaking the layout of my site. Maybe preparations for a major overhaul – maybe not. I’ve also been watching C-Span coverage of the Judge John Roberts confirmation hearings. Very interesting stuff, if you can get past the formulaic partisan personalities of several committee members. Watch it, if you can. Also, I would like [...]
The Drugs Don’t Work
August 11 05
This has been a frustrating week. My results from Monday’s and Wednesday’s tests were very promising – with one of my numbers actually up and flirting with a normal range. So that’s good. Very good. But side effects from the drugs are “cramping my style” (as I prefer to code) and still keeping me out [...]