People are listening to the insurance companies that would love to keep gouging us and dumping us when we actually get sick. All we want is affordable health care (not free) with real coverage when we need it. How about having an option to keep the corporations honest and fair? Everybody knows someone who would like to be able to purchase health insurance but can't afford it. Come on America, we can do way better. The opponents are the insurance companies and the politicians taking huge money from them! ...more

November 12, 2009

It seems Congress is always able to surpass its previous level of either chicanery or stupidity. Either our representatives are making a wedding gift commemorating the unholy marriage between big money and big government or someone needs to hand it a sign saying "I'm Stupid!" ...more

November 7, 2009

One of the leading controversies on the Sunday TV talk shows was the appropriateness of the government imposing limits on the executive compensation packages of those corporations which have been bailed out with tax funds. A moment's reflection on the fact that the taxpayer now stands in the place of the stockholder as the owner of these companies should be a sufficient justification for these limits. Stockholders, as the owners of a corporation, originally set the compensation of its officers and employees, but over the years, the officers and boards of directors, through a series of strategies, wrested control from the stockholders and, treating the companies as their own, set their own compensations without regard for the wishes of the true owners, the stockholders. Their view? If you don't like it, sell you stock. A board room "coup de corps!" ...more

October 27, 2009

We do not have democracy in America, "A government of the people, for the people and by the people," as we have been brain washed into believing for over 230 years. ...more

October 4, 2009

PBS chief Paula Kerger says budget numbers tell the tale of how public TV is faring under the Obama administration, compared to that of former President George W. Bush. ...more

August 3, 2009

How can you make a statement, "Don't do as I do, but do as I say?" President Obama cost the state of Nevada hundreds of millions of dollars. ...more

June 5, 2009

Your editorial pages and the accompanying letters to the editor are starting to resemble cable TV, with its opinionated talking heads and manufactured outrage. It is as if half the people expect President Obama to be a miracle worker, and the other half-think he's no better than the last group. ...more

March 27, 2009

Regarding "Crist's Tax Plan Doesn't Hold Water" (Other Views, March 18): ...more

March 19, 2009

Surely we care about the nearly 50 million Americans without health insurance because of circumstances beyond their control. What about the deterrent effect on potential entrepreneurs? Corporations want to get out of the business of providing health insurance for employees in order to be more competitive. Our costs are the highest in the world. ...more

March 17, 2009

It has now been seven weeks since President Barack Obama has been sworn in as our president. Prior to the inauguration, there was much discussion about how the president would lead. Some insisted that he would lead from the center and yet his major supporters totally expected him to lead from the left. ...more

March 14, 2009