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Neal Boortz

Neal Boortz has written 73 posts for SmallGovTimes.com

The sad truth about the health care bill

Barack Obama has been touting this fact, and he did it again yesterday during his speech in Missouri, that if you pass healthcare reform the cost for families currently receiving coverage would go down by “14% to 20%.”

The new Barack Obama poverty scam

The Obama administration has decided that it wants to create a new way to measure poverty. The new Obama system would essentially be the same in that a family would be considered “poor” if its income drops below a certain threshold. But the difference in Obama’s new system would be the addition of a “built-in [...]

The cost of President Barack Obama

There is one thing that Democrats, Republicans and Independents can all agree on – the debt we owe is our greatest long-term threat to national security. By a two-to-one margin, Americans of all demographics and political parties believe that the amount of money we owe to China is now a greater long-term threat than radical [...]

Using “reconciliation” to smash through unpopular legislation

While Barack Obama didn’t explicitly say it, he opened the door for Democrats to use reconciliation to pass healthcare reform. And that is exactly what they intend to do. Obama says:

The health care dog and pony show

You do know, don’t you, that The Community Organizer is holding his little dog-and-pony show today. He calls it a health care summit. The purpose here is to bring some Republicans to the table … listen to a few ideas … reject them out of hand … move ahead with the Democrat plan while accusing [...]

Those wonderful government worker unions

Last week we dropped the wonderful news on you: The majority of America’s union workers now work for …. Ta da! …. You! That’s right, they work for government. Private-sector unionism is on the decline. The only place where union membership is expanding is in the government sector.