America the Beautiful

By Bob L.

We should send Rahm Emanuel to Italy and see if they will convict him on his comment about f—ing retards.
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010

An Italian court has convicted three Google executives in a trial over a video showing a teenager with Down’s Syndrome being bullied.

The Google employees were accused of breaking Italian law by allowing the video to be posted online.

Judge Oscar Magi absolved the three of defamation but convicted them of privacy violations.

The UK’s former Information Commissioner Richard Thomas said the case gave privacy laws a “bad name”. Read the rest of this entry »

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By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: February 19, 2010

Hundreds of people taking Avandia, a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each month, according to confidential government reports that recommend the drug be removed from the market.

The reports, obtained by The New York Times, say that if every diabetic now taking Avandia were instead given a similar pill named Actos, about 500 heart attacks and 300 cases of heart failure would be averted every month because Avandia can hurt the heart. Avandia, intended to treat Type 2 diabetes, is known as rosiglitazone and was linked to 304 deaths during the third quarter of 2009.

“Rosiglitazone should be removed from the market,” one report, by Dr. David Graham and Dr. Kate Gelperin of the Food and Drug Administration, concludes. Both authors recommended that Avandia be withdrawn.

The internal F.D.A. reports are part of a fierce debate within the agency over what to do about Avandia, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline. Some agency officials want the drug withdrawn because they believe there is a safer alternative; others insist that studies of the drug provide contradictory information and that Avandia should continue to be an option for doctors and patients. GlaxoSmithKline said that it had studied Avandia extensively and that “scientific evidence simply does not establish that Avandia increases” the risk of heart attacks. Read the rest of this entry »

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By Bob L. The way I see it!

Here is a good example of why you have high taxes, Government hires to many people to do a job that fewer people can do, then they hirer consulting firms to do what is suppose to be done by the people in these Government jobs that you the tax payer is paying for, then you have to pay for their PENSIONS and HEALTH INSURANCE also. A good example, a private company sends out FOUR workers, to where the Government sends out EIGHT to TEN workers to do the same job, now why are taxes so high, (when some are making $45.00 dollars an hour or more.) Who pays for these WAGES, PENSIONS and HEALTH INSURANCE benefits? YOU, and JUST THINK, you pay into them and don’t get any of there benefits.

This whole article sounds just like Social Security, except on the State level.

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By MARK SCOLFORO, Associated Press Writer
Thu Feb 18

HARRISBURG, Pa. – States may be forced to reduce benefits, raise taxes or slash government services to address a $1 trillion funding shortfall in public sector retirement benefits, according to a new study that warns of even more debilitating costs if immediate action isn’t taken.

The Pew Center on the States released a survey Thursday of state-administered pension plans, retiree health care and other post-employment benefits in all 50 states that blamed a decade’s worth of policy decisions for leaving them shortchanged. [My insert]( Better known as spending money you don’t have.) Read the rest of this entry »

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By Bob L.  Lets gets back to the late 40s to the early 60s when you could buy some thing before the greed started.

Lets get this Country back to prosperity where it used to be, so you have lower wages but you also have lower taxes, then maybe more people will be put back to work. If people work money comes in, people don’t work no money comes in, so which do you want jobs with big wages and high taxes, or lower wages with lower taxes. And lower wages mean lower prices, it is time to stop being greedy, this gos for CEO, put that money back into the company, prices will come down and people will be able to afford to buy your products, this covers every thing like, homes, cars, insurance, food and so forth.That gos for the Government, live with what you have and nothing more.

Buy America when ever possible, look at it this way you buy America, business buys from other businesses and the world works. If we don’t work we don’t buy from around the world. Its like the law of nature, what gos up  will come crashing  down, like 1929 to 1939, if they keep doing what they are doing today we will see another depression worst then great depression.

It is time to stop spending money like it grows on trees, stop health care, cap & tax and start getting people back to work and lower all taxes to get COMPANIES to start hiring and not be afraid that taxes will go through the roof after they hirer, the more businesses you get, means the more tax money comes in, then work on health care, better known if you don’t have the money you can not buy it, PERIOD! Like you tell the American people live with in your budget, don’t spend more then you make.
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By JIM KUHNHENN and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE, Associated Press Writers
2/18/2010

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By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer
Tue Feb 16

WASHINGTON – The Census Bureau wasted millions of dollars in preparation for its 2010 population count, including thousands of temporary employees who picked up $300 checks without performing work and others who over billed for travel costs.

Federal investigators caution the excessive charges could multiply once the $15 billion headcount begins in earnest next month unless the agency imposes tighter spending controls, according to excerpts of a forthcoming audit obtained by The Associated Press.

On a positive note, investigators backed the Census Bureau’s decision to spend $133 million on its advertising campaign, saying it was appropriate to boost public awareness. The spending included a $2.5 million Super Bowl spot that some Republicans had criticized as wasteful.

The findings by Todd Zinser, the Commerce Department’s inspector general, highlight the difficult balancing act for the Census Bureau as it takes on the Herculean task of manually counting the nation’s 300 million residents amid a backdrop of record levels of government debt. Read the rest of this entry »

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By Bob L. As I see it, still wondering which Country!

And just think our Government would like to go with one currency, was it the Euro, is that they are talking about, or is it the Peso, I have not yet figured out which Country we are going to be, maybe Africa because they  wants to give them all our tax  money, and jobs.

This Country it seams,  is not proud to be The United States of America any more, other words they are trying to destroy the Constitution that should be left alone.

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By the Monitor’s Editorial Board
Fri Feb 12,

A modern Greek tragedy, based on that country’s self-inflicted fiscal woes, holds lessons for other nations with deep deficits – including the United States.

Not to slight the birthplace of Western civilization, but what’s unfolding in Athens right now wouldn’t be getting top global billing were it not for Greece’s connection to the euro currency. Along with 15 of the European Union’s 27 member nations, Greece belongs to the “euro zone,” and therefore its problems can turn into Europe’s problems. Read the rest of this entry »

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