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I would not normally post a link showing a segment from The Ed Show. I consider him to be a blowhard on the left almost in the image of Rush on the right. However, this piece does seem worthy of consideration.

Follow this link to the CBO estimate sent to Senator Harry Reid on March 10,2010.

I have not even begun to read the 28 page report, but I did extract this paragraph from the introductory letter:

CBO and JCT now estimate that, on balance, the direct spending and revenue effects of enacting H.R. 3590 as passed by the Senate would yield a net reduction in federal deficits of $118 billion over the 2010–2019 period. Approximately $65 billion of that reduction would be on-budget; other effects related to Social Security revenues and spending as well as spending by the U.S. Postal Service are classified as off-budget. In the estimate that was provided on December 19, the estimated budgetary impact was a net reduction in deficits of $132 billion, of which approximately $81 billion would be on-budget.

I have no idea yet whether the rest of the analysis is one I would like to hear or not.  I provide the link here for the purposes of full disclosure no matter how the chips may fall.

This story may only be for the local yokels like me.

Follow this link to the story in the Worcester T & G of the above headline:  Subhead is Complaint about official opens a Pandora’s box.

I  compliment the story’s author, Craig S. Semon, for the way the story is written. He quotes what a person says and then presents what the evidence indicates.  Too much of our media just does a he says and she says without offering an independent look at the evidence.  The way this story is written harks back to the best traditions of reporting that we used to see all the time.

I voted for both of the people involved in this tiff, but I am now thinking my later vote for Tom Creamer was the right one and my earlier vote for Scott Garieri was a mistake.

We have another election coming up.  I have previously voted for both of the candidates who are running.  They each lost by minuscule margins,  one by about 4 votes and the other by 14 votes.  I wish I could figure out what these people are really like before I have to see them in action in office.

Mary Dowling for Sturbridge Selectman

James Ehrhard Candidate for Selectman

Sturbridge Political Watch a blog by Thomas Creamer.

I often read news via Google News.

Sometimes, if I am not careful, I click a link and end up on a Fox News web site.

I did find this annoying, but thought no more of it until today.

I noticed that almost all the top links to the stories take you to Fox News web site.

I was going to find a way to ask Google not to do this, when I realized that this might actually be something that Google is doing on purpose.

Have they made a pact with the devil to feature his web sites? He did threaten to forbid Google from searching his web sites for items to be linked to. He was going to take his business to Microsoft. He pretended that this was a revenue sharing issue. Perhaps he was really trying to get a monopolistic, competitive advantage over other news sources.

You don’t hear anymore about this threat. Is this the deal that Google had to make to keep him from carrying out his threat?

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I am really pleased that President Obama has chosen to tackle the health care issue.

He looked at the future budgets and found that the cost of health care was the major driving force of deficits. There was no close second.

He then bravely decided to try to fix this problem, no matter how difficult.

In modern times you have only FDR and LBJ as examples of Presidents who succeeded in taking on such major issues to help salvage the future of our country.

Despite all the slings and arrows, and propaganda waged against him, he persists.  He has the support of a large enough segment of the population to get this through.  He knows that he has to keep the people on board with what he is trying to do.

Unlike Clinton, who didn’t keep campaigning for his program after he got elected, Obama keeps countering the mountain of publicity arrayed against him.

Clinton felt constrained by lack of funds to promote his program against the huge amount of money the corporate world used against him (Harry and Louise).

Obama has found the way, using the internet, to raise the needed funds and to keep his army of supporters out in the field working with him.

This is the kind of change that I voted for.