By Bill Scher, Campaign for America’s Future. Posted July 3, 2009. The arguments by obstructionists are dead — the math shows health care costs will drop while achieving near universal coverage. When the CBO scored an early draft of the health care form bill from the Senate HELP committee as costing $1 trillion over 10 [...]
Archive for July 3rd, 2009
3 Jul
Spending $102 Billion a Year on 800 Worldwide Military Bases Is Bankrupting the Country
By Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. Posted July 3, 2009. We’re building new “embassies” that run close to $1 billion and host countries keep jacking the rent for existing bases. The following is an introduction from Tom Engelhardt: Along with postcards of cowboys riding jackalopes and giant berries on flatcars, there’s a brand new entry in the [...]
3 Jul
On the Offensive
washingtonpost.com Can commanders in Afghanistan tell the president the truth about troop shortages? Friday, July 3, 2009 AS U.S. MARINES launched a major offensive in Afghanistan’s Taliban-infested Helmand province yesterday, one problem was already apparent: There are not enough troops to properly carry out the Pentagon’s new counterinsurgency strategy. The force is “a little light,” [...]
3 Jul
A President Breaks Hearts in Appalachia
washingtonpost.com A mountaintop coal mining site at Kayford Mountain in West Virginia. (By Jeff Gentner — Associated Press) By Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Friday, July 3, 2009 Mountaintop removal coal mining is the worst environmental tragedy in American history. When will the Obama administration finally stop this Appalachian apocalypse? If ever an issue deserved President [...]
