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• Is it OK for Congress to mandate that all Americans must purchase health insurance?

  Mon Dec 13, 2010
  • We have 3 choices 1 cover everyone automatically: Single-Payer 2 force people to buy: Mandate 3 have sickcare not healthcare: What We Have

• Should companies be using "truant officers" to check up on employees?

  Fri Dec 10, 2010
  • Paid days off ought to be an employee's property, to be used regardless of reason. We should be allowed to take personal days!

• Who is responsible for Social Security recipients not getting a cost-of-living increase?

  Sun Oct 10, 2010
  • NO inflation = NO increase in cost to live, so there is NO REASON for Cost of Living Payments to go UP if Cost of Living IS NOT going UP!!!

• Foreign investors not scared of housing market

  Mon Oct 4, 2010
  • Americans have MORE cash sitting on the sidelines than foreign investors do... we're only still in this recession because of fear, but foreign entrepreneurs only look for opportunities, which is why they will be successful.

• Where home sellers are slashing prices big-time

  Thu Sep 30, 2010
  • New Mexico comes to mind - Espanola, NM is tucked in a valley with mountains on all sides, so it gets only 11.8" of snow, 9.8" of Precipitation total, average high of 46.8 in the winter and 89.8 in the summer, and is 1hr 32min from Albuquerque International Airport. Check it out! :)

• Where home sellers are slashing prices big-time

  Thu Sep 30, 2010
  • Um, maybe it's obvious, but the % of people discounting their homes to sell them = the % of people who priced their homes too high to begin with. It's called MARKET ECONOMICS - if you aren't selling your home after you've had lots of views, YOU'RE ASKING TOO MUCH.

• Postal regulators reject raising cost of stamps

  Thu Sep 30, 2010
  • The U.S. Postal Service is the MOST EFFICIENT, LOWEST COST Postal System in the WORLD. If we paid the rates other countries are paying, we would be paying 50-100% MORE (that's 65-90 cents for first class mail!) - and that doesn't even factor in that the delivery area in the U.S.

• Good Graph Friday: Where the jobs were lost

  Fri Sep 17, 2010
  • The reapeal of the American Industrial Policy set forth by Thomas Jefferson in 1794, which called for the manufacture of real goods in the U.S. is what is driving the stagnating wages of the Middle Class.

• Senate passes long-stalled small business bill

  Thu Sep 16, 2010
  • Alic.In.Wonderland - be content in your ignorance. YES, those of us who WORK pay taxes for Medicare and Medicaid - it's on our paycheck stubs.

• Which party has the better approach on financial reform?

  Mon Apr 26, 2010
  • An S&P report just this morning reported how the Repubs are trying to water down derivative ref. and keep the banks gambling with our money