Matt Welch discovers the real reason Americans are angry: "Americans of all stripes, it turns out, aren't very keen about the government barging into their lives .... After 11 months of federal bailouts and freakouts, Americans have become bone tired of panicky power grabs from Washington. It's the big government, stupid."
Via Instapundit.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
WHY OBAMACARE?
Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI) answers the question in his opening statement on Health Care reform in Washington DC:
SPACE CENTER USA
Taken at Johnson Space Center south of Houston, Texas. The building contains a full-scale Saturn V/Apollo command module and is visible on Google Earth. The vehicle inside is the size of the picture painted on the side of the building.
The Saturn V, taken from the base of the first stage. To give a sense of scale, there is a tour group barely visible at the other end of the building.
A "Little Joe" booster with an Apollow command module and escape system on top. The system was built as a testbed to verify the escape system in a high-altitude emergency situation. In the actual test, the Little Joe booster itself malfunctioned and the escape system functioned as designed, bringing the Apollo capsule to a safe landing.
[Personal Note] Those were exciting days, even though I was only peripherally involved in Apollo and its precursors.
The Saturn V, taken from the base of the first stage. To give a sense of scale, there is a tour group barely visible at the other end of the building.
A "Little Joe" booster with an Apollow command module and escape system on top. The system was built as a testbed to verify the escape system in a high-altitude emergency situation. In the actual test, the Little Joe booster itself malfunctioned and the escape system functioned as designed, bringing the Apollo capsule to a safe landing.
[Personal Note] Those were exciting days, even though I was only peripherally involved in Apollo and its precursors.
EARLY RETIREMENT BURDEN
Civil service retirements in California are running 16 percent ahead of last year, suggesting that pay reductions, furloughs, diminishing resources and heavier workloads are pushing many employees to the exits.
Decrease the contributor base and increase the recipient base, that's the ticket to solvency. Given the state of the California pension funds, I'm just wondering if Sutherland can afford to live on IOUs.
Via Instapundit.
"I've done the math," said Terry Sutherland, a Franchise Tax Board supervisor in the Bay Area with 43 years of state service. "I'll be making more retired than working. I just can't afford to subsidize my job any more."
Decrease the contributor base and increase the recipient base, that's the ticket to solvency. Given the state of the California pension funds, I'm just wondering if Sutherland can afford to live on IOUs.
Via Instapundit.
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