Posted on 09/12/2010 5:09:23 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, September 12th, 2010
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Austan Goolsbee, newly named chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers; Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.; Washington Redskins coach Mike Shanahan.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): White House adviser David Axelrod; former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, R-N.Y.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio; Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.; former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean, co-chairman, 9-11 commission.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Goolsbee; Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, leader of effort to build Islamic center and mosque near ground zero; Eboo Patel, president, Interfaith Youth Core; Irshad Manji, author and New York University professor; the Rev. Richard Cizik, founder, The New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Former Rep. Dick Armey, R-Texas; former Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss.
Thanks for the links. Interesting to learn and understand.
Understood. Taxes have been driving this for years. Today I’m thinking there are people with less money who are looking for close but not perfect places to live. FL has gotten more expensive and more government services so people begin looking for alternatives.
Not to mention the middle class is impacted by the growing Hispanic community there. I’m not trying to be too non-PC but the last time I flew into Miami virtually nobody spoke English in the airport, or at least none of the ones I kept trying to ask questions. It was like FL went overboard to be bilingual to the point that if you don’t speak Spanish it would be a difficult place to live.
Then again, maybe I’m jumping to conclusions. If so, sorry.
Excerpt:
* * * In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, Americans from all political corners joined hands, minds and hearts in a firm determination to finally say that the scourge of radical Islamist violence needed to be confronted; needed to be vanquished; needed to be erased from the face of the Earth. On September 12, 2001, each and every American knew that to walk away from this battle – a battle foisted upon us not by our own choosing but by fundamentalist and violent Islamists – was to invite an even more catastrophic event to our shores, one that, perhaps and God forbid, could test the strength of the American will in the face of a massive bio-chemical or even nuclear attack.Yet today, nine years later, we have elected as our leaders sympathizers and appeasers who are using the Iraqi and Afghan battle theaters as pawns in an ideological political game; who call the war against aggressive, radical and violent Islam an “overseas contingency plan”; and who do practically everything in their power to undercut the West’s most valuable ally in the Middle East – Israel – short of attacking her themselves. * * *
But, increasingly, the American public cannot hear the cries. We are listening to agenda-driven news outlets that spotlight our elected leaders telling us we are to blame, that America is bad. We are commanded by the Progressive-Liberals to listen to CAIR and the “bridge-builder” Feisal Abdul Rauf explain to us that we are at fault, that our government made Osama bin Laden and the murderous cretins of September 11, 2001, who flew planes into buildings screaming, “Allahu Akbar!” We are too busy arguing politics to hear the pleas from beyond that warn us all – each and every one of us – to take this confrontation seriously. We are too busy. * * *
Americans have short memories, Our elected leaders are elitists who only want more goodies for themselves. In short, unless we throw out all the Obamamaniacs and RINOS in Congress this November -- Our nation is doomed . . . The countdown begins right now.
IMHO, we need to counter it as best we can.
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Yes, we do, but I despair of beating back all the lies that democrats spew and swallow.
Example: they like the soundbite of Republicans having caused the downturn of “the past ten years.” Any thinking person would say “wait a minute, Bush was only president for eight years” [nevermind the Pelosi Congress from 2007, and Obama as prez for the last two years]. “Ten years” sounds like “decade” and sounds like a bad rap on Republicans, so it has become a mantra.
VERY WELL PUT.
THX.
raise the Medicare about $22.00 to 60.00
raise the commercial insurance about 30.00 to 80.00,less any copay
the cash payor will get a discount.
the docs get screwed over no matter who is paying commercial or goverment
Oh ya lots of doc’s are walking away here in So. Calif except the Indian docs, they make way more $$$$ here taking Medicare/Medicaid then they could ever make at home
OR Gov race will likely go Repub leading by 5 and look for 2-3 pickups in Reps. We have one leading and 2 w/in the margin of error.
Pray for America
Here’s to flexibility. Cheers!
Dems are so brazen in their lying that they are claiming that the tax increase next January is Bush’s “policy.”
All our side has to say is that the only way to get “bi-partisan” support back in 2003 was to include the sunset provision. It was not the Rs but the Ds who demanded the end date for the tax rate reduction for ALL American taxpayers.
impossible is more like it.
Spin/lying gone wild,they go too far with everything.
Sad commentary on a huge problem.
Cheers SC! Catch all you guys next week.Same time,station.
Also, I forgot to add, spokesmen for our side should never say “tax reduction”, but “tax rate reduction.” People should get used to thinking about the rate we pay, not the net amount we pay. Too many people believe that “the rich” get huge checks from the IRS; not that they pay through the nose TO the IRS, and if the rate is reduced, they will be able to keep a bit more of their gross income.
Dems, and too many GOPers, say Congress will “give a reduction to the people.” I HATE hearing that government is giving anybody anything. It is OUR money that we give to the government to do what we voters decide should be done; not the government who ‘gives’ us an allowance.
Because I learned a long time ago that the only fair tax is the tax that taxes you and not me.
No, sorry, can't agree on that. Individual employers in the private sector made private decisions to move jobs to other countries. There was no controlling legal authority that mandated that this manufacturing job or that customer service position had to be located on foreign soil. Oh, the governments may have contributed greatly to the environment that made the decision rational, but the government didn't do it. individual employers in the private sector did that.
Just the same way that the government does not force an individual employer in the private sector to hire illegals. That's a personal decision each employer in the private sector has had to make on their own.
Blaming the government for personal decisions sounds a lot like collective salvation. It works for some, but not for me.
The only person who I want to hear say, "The Devil made me do it" is Flip Wilson. And Mr. Wilson is no longer with us.
No, charge them all the same, with discounts for the cash patient.
Ban the practice of cost shifting, and the states must pay up and keep current.
If the hospitals want to do “charity care”, the money comes out of top executive’s salaries or from a separate fund unrelated to hospital treatment revenues.
Provider charges would certainly go down, insurance premiums too.
Private hospitals don’t have to play this game. “nonprofits” do.
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