September 1, 2009
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Jack verse Health Care …
Did you know Jack Bauer’s grandfather was the man who brought universal health care to Canada? The article pretty much sums up what’s expected about the different views of health care by a few different church conferences. Either way people must see that the current system isn’t working and needs help. Then again folks said social security was running out of money and people decided to not believe that either. Wait. The world is round?
Two bits of federal news that I stumbled upon. First is that Obama is going to limit the upcoming COLA increases to federal workers to 2 percent. I applaud part of his reasoning of that there’s a need to balance the budget but wasn’t he the same person who wanted to grow the federal force to meet the needs of the nation and remove the cost of costly contractors? Most federal workers are underpaid to begin with. You don’t make things remotely competitive by giving a miserly pay increase. Is the left hand talking to the right?
Update: Obama says he’s gonna make federal jobs “cool” considering there could be some 270,000 positions that need to be filled. Still doesn’t look like the left hand is talking to the right.
And lastly, as we approach the fourth quarter of the year, this year has gone by quickly hasn’t it? Don’t forget about all those stimulus programs that are ending. The two biggest ones are the $8,000 tax credit for new home buyers and the tax credit on state or local taxes for car purchases. Time is running out!
