9/1
Michigan pilot program will go national | detnews.com | The Detroit News http://bit.ly/9fDVTl
8/13
Comparing Democratic and Republican tax plans http://bit.ly/cdoCf5 Great chart!
Keith,
Got this email. Apparently it is being circulated on twitter and facebook. I know it's not true and I think it needs to be stopped.
Linda Dapper
@lmdapper
Linda Romaine Dapper (Faceook)
650-996-7053
Very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.
Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:
U.S. 65%
England 46%
Canada 42%
Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:
U.S. 93%
England 15%
Canada 43%
Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:
U.S. 90%
England 15%
Canada 43%
Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month:
U.S. 77%
England 40%
Canada 43%
Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:
U.S. 71
England 14
Canada 18
Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in "excellent health":
U.S. 12%
England 2%
Canada 6%
I don't know about you, but I don't want "Universal Healthcare" comparable to England or Canada .
VERY INTERESTING! The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet. You know what the private business sector is... a real life business, not a government job. Here are the percentages.
T. Roosevelt........ 38%
Taft..................... 40%
Wilson ................. 52%
Harding.................49%
Coolidge.............. 48%
Hoover................. 42%
F. Roosevelt......... 50%
Truman................. 50%
Eisenhower........... 57%
Kennedy............... 30%
Johnson................ 47%
Nixon.................... 53%
Ford..................... 42%
Carter................... 32%
Reagan................. 56%
GH Bush.............. 51%
Clinton ................. 39%
GW Bush............. 55%
And the winner of the Chicken Dinner is..............Obama.................8% !!!
Yep! That's right! Only Eight Percent!!!..the least by far of the last 19 presidents!! And these people are trying to tell our big corporations how to run their business? They know what's best for GM...Chrysler... Wall Street... and you and me?
How can the president of a major nation and society...the one with the most successful economic system in world history... stand and talk about business when he's never worked for one?.. or about jobs when he has never really had one?? And neither has 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers..! They've spent most of their time in academia, government and/or non-profit jobs....or as "community organizers" ..when they should have been in an employment line.
MAY GOD HELP US!
Thanks,
Gary Mills
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I wrote to Linda Wakins
Linda,
Where did you get this information? There is no such organization U .N. International Health Organization. Many people have tried to verify this information and can't find it. Please try and check your facts before passing things along. In this case just put U .N. International Health Organization into Google or Yahoo etc and see what you get.
There are people out there trying to scare people. This is unacceptable. Information is one thing lies are another.
Linda
8/9/10
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/Content/PDF/oecd_historical_toprate.pdf
Tax rates from around the world.
On Friday 6th August 2010, @lmdapper said:
All this was done accomplished yesterday (8-4-10)
Senate passes child nutrition bill http://bit.ly/9BMBv7--Senate passes bill to save teacher, police jobs http://bit.ly/d55pwH -- Elena Kagan confirmed to Supreme Court http://bit.ly/bRr25K -- Senate approves Clapper nomination as intel chief http://bit.ly/cn15hZ -- Senate Passed $600 Million Border Security Bill http://bit.ly/9J6L8l
The Senate the way it should look
8/4
Obama’s Legislative Accomplishments Fail to Bolster Popularity http://bit.ly/augw1W people remember how cloudy the process was (not good)
Accomplishments, setbacks and stalemates: Obama’s first year in review http://bit.ly/cZsFkG || old, but worth rereading so we don't forge
@karoli how about honesty? Refreshing if not accomplishment. (AP) Obama says he deserves a grade of 'incomplete' http://bit.ly/dc9EOX
@karoli Can we use this as an accomplishment? Great real people- Dr. Daisy Brooks, Winner of the Presidential Medal http://exm.nr/aWiFkp
Big win for Reid on teacher money | Senator Harry Reid, Nevada - HarryReid.com http://bit.ly/alEXKr || keep going lots of work to do!
7/28
Protection for US writers abroad goes to Obama http://bit.ly/d4IzQU
7/26
POTUS signs legislation to help stop paying dead people Medicare, other federal benefits http://bit.ly/9WLy8K || accomplishment?
Obama's First 100 Days: 10 Achievements You Didn't Know About
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/29/obamas-first-100-days-10_n_192603.htmlPresident Obama’s accomplishments
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 http://www.thepoliticalcarnival.net/2010/03/president-obamas-accomplishments/Obama has made quite a few accomplishments,
http://bit.ly/daS68P Rachel Maddow lists exceptional number significant accomplishments of the Obama Administration, even though half a term.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2009/04/29/4426425-obamas-day-100-at-mo-town-hall Obama's Day 100 at MO town hall From NBC's Athena Jones
equal pay for women
hate crimes against gays
stabilizing the economy
withdrawing troops from Iraq
settling on the “best possible plan” in Afghanistan
improving America’s image around the world
finding international consensus on disabling nuclear weapons in Iran and North Korea.
Appointed Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
tapped at least 48 other Hispanics to positions senior enough to require Senate confirmation
There are more I know. Let me know you favorites and I'll add them.
Rachael Maddow 6/25/10 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#37937282
MADDOW: He signed a bill that gave amnesty to undocumented immigrants. He grew the size of the federal government and the budget, added a whole new cabinet level agency and added tens of thousands of government workers to the federal payroll.
He tripled the deficit. He bailed out and expanded social security with a big fat tax increase. He raised corporate taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars. He raised taxes on gasoline.
He, in fact, signed into law the largest tax increase in history. He supported federal handgun controls. He called for a world without nuclear weapons. He was Ronald Reagan.
As a conservative saint, as the right-wing rock star, as king of the Republican prom in perpetuity, as a transformative figure for people who call themselves conservative, the facts of Ronald Reagan‘s legislative record are awkward.
Ronald Reagan‘s record has in it a lot of things that would get him kicked out of today‘s Republican Party, which is not to say that President Reagan was a secret liberal. He was not. What he was, was complex, but accomplished in his own way.
With the passage of financial regulation in Washington today, President Obama took to the very un-momentous setting of “Twitters,” as he called it yesterday, to say this, quote, “Last night‘s House Senate agreement on Wall Street reform represents the toughest financial reform since the Great Depression.”
It turns out that a lot of things that have happened in the less than two years of this administration are the biggest or first or most important in generations. On the occasion of the Wall Street reform announcement today, Taegan Goddard at “CQ Politics” wrote, “Not since FDR has a president done so much to transform this country.”
Even before today‘s historic Wall Street reform agreement, President Obama, of course, did what politicians have been trying to do for more than 60 years. He passed health reform, which, for the first time, establishes government responsibility for the health care of American citizens.
Consider also the stimulus bill. It didn‘t just throw a lasso around our entire economy and yank and yank it back from the brink. It also pumped about $100 billion into the crumbling embarrassment of our national infrastructure and transportation system.
It was the largest investment in infrastructure since Ike. For solving our country‘s energy problems, something Obama has compared to man walking on the moon, it contained about $60 billion in spending and tax incentives for renewable and clean energy, also a historic investment.
It also included an unheralded but giant investment in science and tech, amping up the budgets at NASA, the National Science Foundation, and an experimental energy research agency that was created under President George W. Bush, but never funded until now.
President Obama also expanded state kids‘ health insurance to cover another four million kids. He signed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act amending the 1964 civil rights act for equal pay for equal work. He signed a nuclear arms deal with Russia that would reduce both countries‘ arsenals by a third. He created a new global nonproliferation initiative to keep nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists.
He set forth an international way forward on that radical left-wing proposition of Ronald Reagan, a world without nuclear weapons. Then there are the legislative and policy achievements that don‘t just build on previously-set precedents, but set new ones.
The Hate Crimes Prevention Act, also known as the Matthew Shepard Act. It had languished in Congress for years. The Food and Drug Administration permitted for the first time to regulate tobacco.
Better late than never, he dismantled the scandal-plagued Minerals Management Service, broke it into three parts so that the folks who collect money from oil leases aren‘t the same ones regulating the industry. And now, it will actually investigate the industry that it was busy schtupping and doing drugs with during the last administration.
Obama fired two wartime commanding generals in little over a year. He overhauled the astonishing stupidity of the student loan system in which banks were being subsidized to give loans that were guaranteed by the government anyway, a license to print money.
That was ended in the savings put toward actual aid to students. He canceled a weapons program that was bloated, unnecessary and totally irrelevant to either of our current wars, the F-22. Why even mention the cancellation of a single weapons system? Because that never happens. Weapons systems never get canceled. The F-22 did, which is itself a miracle.
In each of these achievements and in the list of things he has yet to do - “Don‘t Ask, Don‘t Tell,” closing Guantanamo - in each of these things, there is room for liberal disappointment. I sing a bittersweet lullaby to the lost public option when I go to sleep at night.
But presidential legacies are complex. Not even the Reagan administration‘s legacy is pure as the conservative-driven snow. But Taegan Goddard at “CQ Politics” was right today about nothing this big happening since FDR.
The list of legislative accomplishments of this president in half a term even before energy reform which he‘s probably going to get to is, to quote the vice president, “a big freaking deal.” Love this administration or hate it, this president is getting a lot done.
The last time any president did this much in office, booze was illegal. If you believe in policy, if you believe in government that addresses problems, cheers to that. Good night.
END
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/C045295CED7DCF6885257758005B74BB
EPA Proposal Cuts Pollution from Power Plants in 31 States and D.C. / Rule would reduce smog- and soot-forming emissions contributing to unhealthy air
Release date: 07/06/2010
Contact Information: Cathy Milbourn, milbourn.cathy@epa.gov, 202-564-7849, 202-564-4355
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing regulations to cut air pollution that impairs air quality and harms the health of people living downwind. The regulation will target power plant pollution that drifts across the borders of 31 eastern states and the District of Columbia. Air pollution is linked to thousands of asthma cases and heart attacks, and almost 2 million lost school or work days. Along with local and state air pollution controls, the new proposal, called the transport rule, is designed to help areas in the eastern United States meet existing national air quality health standards.
“This rule is designed to cut pollution that spreads hundreds of miles and has enormous negative impacts on millions of Americans,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. “We’re working to limit pollution at its source, rather than waiting for it to move across the country. The reductions we’re proposing will save billions in health costs, help increase American educational and economic productivity, and -- most importantly -- save lives.”
The transport rule would reduce power plant emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) to meet state-by-state emission reductions. By 2014, the rule and other state and EPA actions would reduce SO2 emissions by 71 percent over 2005 levels. NOx emissions would drop by 52 percent.
EPA is using the “good neighbor” provision of the Clean Air Act to reduce interstate transport, which is the upwind state emissions that contribute to air quality problems in downwind states. The proposed rule sets in place a new approach that can and will be applied again as further pollution reductions are needed to help areas meet air quality health standards.
SO2 and NOx react in the atmosphere to form fine particle pollution and ground-level ozone (smog), which are linked to widespread illnesses and premature deaths. These pollutants are carried on the wind to other states, contributing to health problems for their residents and interfering with states’ ability to meet air quality standards.
Today’s action would yield more than $120 billion in annual health benefits in 2014, including avoiding an estimated 14,000 to 36,000 premature deaths, 23,000 nonfatal heart attacks, 21,000 cases of acute bronchitis, 240,000 cases of aggravated asthma, and 1.9 million days when people miss school or work due to ozone- and particle pollution-related symptoms. These benefits would far outweigh the annual cost of compliance with the proposed rule, which EPA estimates at $2.8 billion in 2014.
EPA expects that the emission reductions will be accomplished by proven and readily available pollution control technologies already in place at many power plants across the country.
The transport rule also would help improve visibility in state and national parks and would increase protection for ecosystems that are sensitive to pollution, including streams in the Appalachians, lakes in the Adirondacks, estuaries and coastal waters, and red maple forests.
The proposal would replace and improve upon the 2005 Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ordered EPA to revise in 2008. The court allowed CAIR to remain in place temporarily while EPA works to finalize the replacement rule proposed today.
EPA will take public comment on the proposal for 60 days after the rule is published in the Federal Register. The agency also will hold public hearings. Dates and locations for the hearings will be announced shortly.
7/06/10
I am in the camp of hunting down all possible candidates and adding
them to the list.
BTW the revised titles to date are mine and therefore the blame for
poor formatting... Is it a problem that each time I enter a bullet sub-
list the number structure of the list gets broken?
R. Paine (ArrghPaine)
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Never hurts to mine for new information.
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Roy has been busy cleaning up formats of achievements, etc. Thanks!
Aviva has been adding "Alternative texts" for some items. As an exampleof how to rewrite an achievement, search for her rewrite that begins thus:
"Began the process of restructuring the military"
It was exactly the right idea.
This is just what we should be doing. Replacing long and awkward titleswith shorter, cohesive statements. It's not vital to tell the entire story in each bullet. Just to make it distinct enough from.
Aviva, note that I pressed TAB to indent your bullet. This makes iteasier to see. After they have been there a few days, if no one has comments, we can swap it with the old heading and normalize the text.
NOTE. Creating a sub bullet is the best way to comment on any item. Make your text red. Example
This is the achievement...
Press enter on the end of line, and presstab to indent. Then make comment RED
This is a rewrite of the achievement...
This is the comment on the rewrite
2) Poll -- Do we review a new source collection?
Pash discovered this monster, ad-hoc list, which looks like it was cobbled together from the Watson list, and others around the web.
http://democraticchangeupdate.p2blogs.com/
Would you all take a cursory look at it, and tell us if you think we should formally parse this document for achievements?
If so, I will make a new source collection document for it. I personally feel we should. We have a LOT of people now, and if everyone just did a few, we'd be done fast. But it may be mostly junk or stuff we have already, and not worth the effort. Let's decide by committee.
I HAVE PRODUCED A POLL to help us decide. Please VOTE hereafter you study the collection.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDJ5RmY1aDBQSllvT21TW...
http://www.irontontribune.com/news/2010/jul/08/health-care-fix-help-seniors/
Health care fix to help seniors
Published Thursday, July 8, 2010
A variety of organizations -- including the Area Agency on Aging, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and AARP -- are working to dispel myths and educate senior citizens about the immediate and longterm changes brought on by the Affordable Care Act that was adopted by Congress earlier this year.
The health care reform bill was far from perfect, containing a number of changes that will have dramatic impact on the industry as a whole.
But, for many senior citizens, this reform bill will significantly improve coverage and preventative care opportunities.
At the top of the list, it will remove the infamous "donut hole" gap in prescription drug coverage, a flaw that was almost universally pointed to as a major detriment to care for seniors.
Secondly, the reform will greatly increase access to tests and screenings, allowing senior citizens to be proactive rather than reactive when it comes to their health.
Some of the free preventative screenings that will be available for free are for bone density, cholesterol, prostate cancer, diabetes, breast cancer and colon cancer.
Seniors need to arm themselves with perhaps the most vital medicine in the fight for good health: information.
Don't take anyone at his word. Ask a lot of questions and make sure those who are providing answers really have your health at heart.
Tracking Barack Obama's Campaign Promises - The Obama Watchers Wiki http://bit.ly/nNfa0C