Mitt Romney’s Secret Money
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 27th, 2011 5:30 am by HL
Bipartisan Plan Could Rescue a Doomed Program
Economic Slide Took a Detour at Capitol Hill
Eric Lichtblau, NY Times
WASHINGTON — When Representative Ed Pastor was first elected to Congress two decades ago, he was comfortably ensconced in the middle class. Mr. Pastor, a Democrat from Arizona, held $100,000 or so in savings accounts in the mid-1990s and had a retirement pension, but like many Americans, he also owed the banks nearly as much in loans. A one-stop destination for the latest political news "” from The Times and other top sources. Plus opinion, polls, campaign data and video. Today, Mr. Pastor, a miner’s son and a former high school teacher, is a…
Job Creation Is Price for New U.S. Health Law
Andrew Puzder, Bloomberg
Illustration by Ethan Buller I am not an expert on health-care policy, but I do know something about job creation. So when a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee asked me to testify about the effect on employers of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, sometimes known as Obamacare, I thought I could offer some insights. As I told the committee in a July 28 hearing, it is critical that Congress does a good job of balancing the benefits of new legislation against the costs of that legislation. That process begins with recognizing that laws like Obamacare come at a price….
