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'Jobs' bills: Why they fizzle
Riverside Press-Enterprise
2.27.2010
California's unemployment rate is more than 12 percent, prompting state Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg's new plan to create some 140,000 jobs. The plan, unfortunately, has a problem.
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Summit Standoff
Galen Institute
By: Sally C. Pipes
2.26.2010
Danny Williams, the premier of the Canadian province of Newfoundland, traveled to the U.S. earlier this month to undergo heart valve surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami.
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Retreat from pension reform fight
Orange County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
2.26.2010
Anyone who thinks that gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman offers much hope for fixing the state's structural fiscal mess should now wonder whether the billionaire former eBay chief executive might end up being nothing more than another Arnold Schwarzenegger – a governor who sometimes talks a good game but who, ultimately, is too timid to take on the vested interests that are destroying our once-golden state.
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Uncertainty about government to blame for sluggish job growth
Times News, Inc. (PA) - Letter to Editor
2.23.2010
The U.S. economy shed another 85,000 jobs in December, when most analysts had expected no change or even slight job creation. Meanwhile, the Obama administration continues to push for healthcare reform and other measures that will require higher taxes. Ironically, it is the federal government's policy activism itself that is largely to blame for the prolonged economic slump.
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Learning from Canada's schools
Washington Times
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D., Jason Clemens
2.23.2010
In a speech on Canadian television touting the health care system of our northern neighbor, liberal filmmaker Michael Moore said, "It's not that you need to become more like Americans, we need to become more Canadian-like." If America mimicked Canadian education policy, however, Mr. Moore might never recover from the shock.
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White House, Allies Turn to Reconciliation
Health Care News - The Heartland Institute
By: Thomas Cheplick
2.22.2010
The White House and its allies are seeking ways to regroup and pass a new version of government-run health care proposed by President Obama, even preparing to resort to the reconciliation process since no reform package is likely to pass through traditional legislative means.
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Obama's Health Plan: New Federal Role for Insurance Regulation
National Journal - Health Care
2.22.2010
The President released his proposal for health care reform today in advance of what he has been calling a bi-partisan summit to be held on February 25. Before releasing his $950 billion over 10 year plan to bring about affordable, accessible, quality care for all Americans, he should have taken a leaf out of that great American "forecaster " Yogi Berra's playbook. Yogi in a famous remark quipped "if you don't know where you are going, you are bound to end up some place else."
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Comprehensive Failure
Weekly Standard
By: Jeffrey H. Anderson, Ph.D
2.22.2010
In yet another interview in connection with a major sporting event, President Obama proposed yet another unorthodox manner of addressing a political problem: this time, a bipartisan half-day health care summit on live TV.
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State not exactly the well-oiled machine
Orange County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
2.19.2010
A new report from the California State Auditor should throw cold water on those who believe that the best way to solve the state's problems is by expanding government power, increasing government funding and creating new regulatory powers and agencies.
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Setting the stage for stagflation
Washington Times
2.19.2010
Prices rose 2.7 percent during 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' recent update of the Consumer Price Index (CPI). This is a worrisome fact because last year's unemployment rate averaged more than 9 percent.
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A Modest And Effective Health Reform
Investors Business Daily
By: Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D
2.18.2010
Notwithstanding the election outcome in Massachusetts last month, efforts inside the Beltway to "reform" the health insurance system — that is, to centralize the rules and outcomes of health coverage — will continue, and still may prove successful if the drumbeat for "compromise" with fatally flawed ideas is heeded.
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Cut taxes to boost employment
San Diego Union-Tribune
2.17.2010
California’s unemployment rate, according to the most recent figures, is 12.4 percent, fifth highest in the nation behind only such economic basket cases as Michigan and South Carolina.
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Prepare foster kids for future
Sacramento Bee
By: Evelyn B. Stacey
2.17.2010
Re "Shame on us for putting foster kids last" (Viewpoint, Feb. 12): Ed Howard makes a good point that California has more consideration for pet-related issues than the fate of foster children. Although pending legislation could extend foster care to age 21, it must be considered that the most efficient use of the state's limited funding is to adequately prepare foster youth for life before age 18.
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Uncertainty about government creates sluggishness
The Buffalo News (NY)
2.17.2010
The economy shed 85,000 jobs in December, to the surprise of most analysts. Meanwhile, the Obama administration continues to push for health care reform and other measures that will require higher taxes. But such activism is largely to blame for the prolonged economic slump.
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Tax-credit scholarships could ease school funding burden
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
2.16.2010
Gov. Chris Christie has proposed freezing $475 million in education spending to help shrink New Jersey's $2.2 billion budget deficit, focusing on school districts with budget surpluses. ("Deep budget cuts carry economic risk for N.J.," Feb. 14.) This plan raises concerns about punishing fiscally responsible school districts. It also raises the specter of higher local property taxes when New Jersey can least afford it.
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Let's Make a Deal
New York Times
By: Jeffrey H. Anderson, Ph.D
2.14.2010
Writing in The Weekly Standard, Jeffrey H. Anderson has proposed covering an extra 10 million Americans with a mixture of tax credits for the uninsured and better-funded risk pools for people with pre-existing conditions.
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Starting Over on Health Care Reform
State House Call
By: Sally C. Pipes
2.10.2010
President Obama has signaled that he’d be willing to work with Republicans if they could build on their shared goals for reform, like reducing insurance premiums. Such a spirit of compromise is desperately needed, as lawmakers from both parties must forge a more prudent course in pursuit of health reform.
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UC's culture of executive entitlement must change
LA Daily News
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
2.9.2010
In his state of the union address, President Obama lamented "big bonuses" to Wall Street bankers. For their part, Californians have good cause to cry foul over a bonus problem of their own involving the University of California medical centers, where performance does not always keep pace with pay.
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GOP should show Obama the one-page health reform bill
San Francisco Examiner
By: Matthew Continetti
2.8.2010
President Obama will host a bipartisan health-care summit, to be televised on C-SPAN, on February 25. Reaction to the event has been divided. Liberals mostly think it's a good idea, while conservatives are not sure. Michelle Malkin says Republicans shouldn't attend. Philip Klein notes that the event will be "pure theatre."
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State meddling hamstrings schools
Orange County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
2.5.2010
To show the results of union dominance of the public education system, John Stossel, host of Fox News' "Stossel," on a recent show held up a convoluted chart that detailed, in small print, the amazing lengths to which New York school administrators must go to fire an incompetent teacher.
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Meeting In The Middle
Forbes
By: Sally C. Pipes
2.4.2010
Last week President Obama sparred with House Republicans in an unprecedented debate that highlighted the two parties' differences on the issues, particularly health reform.
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