This report addresses a deceptively simple question: How can the productivity of American health care be substantially improved? Productivity, in lay terms, is the ratio of output to inputs. A more colloquial rendition of the question might be: how can we get a lot more bang for our health care buck? Kauffman Task Force on […]
Call a spade by its name: It is a War On Women instituted by GOP policies.
My good friend and iReporter Omekongo is taking exception with the phrase the War On Women in his iReport “I declare war on the “War On Women!”. I must completely disagree. I replied with my own iReport “Call a spade by its name: It is a War On Women instituted by GOP policies”. In fact […]
Editorial: Humble ISD – Money poorly spent by Bobby Petty
I agree with most of what my friend Bobby Petty is articulating below. That said, teachers are severely underpaid and even a token raise of $600 a year or whatever it is will take a minute bite out of the inflation component. We need to hold the executives accountable. Our form of compensation is based […]
Women’s Rights In Texas Under Assault? by Karen Menke
Karen Menke gets it. Everyone that is honest with one self knows there has been a war on women from the inception of this country. Things have improved over time for women as they fought for what they should not have had to fight for as inherent rights. It is true that women fought for […]
Why We Have Tax Day–When Done Right An Investment In A Prosperous America
People who do well in America ought to do well by America, so everyone has a fair shot. America is the greatest country on earth — we need everyone pitching in to keep it that way. Paying taxes isn’t fun, but they are our investment in America’s future — keeping our neighborhoods safe, maintaining our […]
Open Letter To All WOMEN and Men In Texas. Unite Against War On Women Rally In Austin A Must
It is not necessary for me to tell anyone what our legislature has done this session. There is something very interesting that one must note with the draconian cuts in our school budget, the invasion of women’s bodies, the cuts in medical care, and all the other cuts too numerous to document, they disproportionately affect […]
The Buffett Rule Explained – Buffet Rule Calculator
The Buffett Rule Explained What’s the deal with our current tax system? Under the current U.S. tax system, a number of millionaires pay a smaller percentage of their income in taxes than a significant proportion of middle class families. Warren Buffett, for example, pays a lower effective tax rate than his secretary, and that’s not […]
Republicans War On Women’s Bodies, Healthcare, and Rights Has Consequences
During the Affordable Care Act debate Republicans were bending over backwards accusing President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress of coming between the patient and their doctor. Nothing could have been further from the truth. The reality is that before the Affordable Care Act it is the insurance company that came between the doctor and […]
A President To Be Proud Of–The Only Qualified Candidate Left–Barack Obama
Thanks Mr. President FOR . . .the "room-lighting" smile: FOR The mind that always thinks. For preventing a second Great Depression: For the humor: For bringing the number of women in the Supreme Court to 3 For making the White […]
GET ON THE BUS: From Houston To Austin For The Unite Against The War On Women Rally
This is a real grass root movement that is growing exponentially on Facebook, through many websites, and organizations. Women all over our country are getting together to fight back the continual attacks on their freedom of choice, their freedom of health, their freedom of contraception, as well as years of disrespect from those that purport […]
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