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Where are you when we need you Bruce Williams
For decades, there was a great guy on the radio who gave financial advice to callers who asked the same question over and over again, “How do I get what I need and want on my limited resources. The guy on the radio, Bruce Williams, was an incredible...Tags: Fraud, Al Gore, Budgets and Budgeting, Television Industry, Career and Workplace
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It's a deal: Obama, Congress will avert default
AP Special CorrespondentWASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate emphatically passed emergency legislation Tuesday to avoid a first-ever government default, rushing the legislation to President Barack Obama for his signature just hours before the deadline. The vote was 74-26. Obama...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Mitch McConnell, Republican Party, Mitt Romney, Crime, Law and Justice
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Hamilton: Let's help our lawmakers with their impossible task
Recently, the Pew Research Center released a poll gauging public sentiment on the nation’s three big entitlement programs: Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Most Americans believe the programs are in trouble and need to be completely...Tags: Foreign Aid, Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice, Elections, Social Security
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Jessamine site of first confirmed case of flu in state
news@jessaminejournal.comThe colder weather is moving into Jessamine County, and so are the germs. The Kentucky Department for Public Health announced Wednesday that Jessamine County was home to the season’s first “lab-confirmed case of influenza” in the state....Tags: Preventative Medicine, Flu Vaccine, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vaccines, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Waters: Medicaid needs a strong dose of competition
The naïve accuse those who want to reform Medicaid of caring only about costs and not about the poor who benefit from the $384-billion-a-year program.
If only it were true that the 50 million Americans —924,000 Kentuckians — now on...Tags: Medical Services, Medicaid, Surgery, Insurance, Social Issues
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Column: Human deficit looms in wake of budget-cutting frenzy
A financial debt can be paid back. But the debt we’ll owe our children if investments in health, nutrition and education are slashed is irreparable. Investment in human infrastructure — providing the human capacity development for optimal...Tags: UNICEF, Medical Services, Poverty, Career and Workplace, NBC (tv network)
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Democrats trying to "mediscare" Medicare out of existence
Journal columnistI never really thought I’d see the day when Americans would choose to let government make decisions for them over their ability to choose for themselves. That is what we would be doing if we were to leave Medicare on the status quo trajectory...Tags: Medical Services, Health Insurance Cost, Paul Ryan, Ben Chandler, Medicare
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Chandler: Ryan budget would destroy Medicare
Nearly since the birth of Social Security and Medicare, these two successful programs have been under constant attack. I remember so clearly in 2005 fighting against President Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security and gamble seniors’...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, George W. Bush, Medicaid, Executive Branch, Paul Ryan
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Patrick: Republican Party is leaving moderates
Ronald Reagan was a Democrat until he was 50. A union leader who revered Franklin D. Roosevelt, he became more conservative as his party was becoming more liberal.
Frustrated with higher taxes, increasing regulation, and what he saw as an anti-business...Tags: George W. Bush, Parties and Movements, Executive Branch, Republican Party, Mitt Romney
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Rand Paul's war on the poor
Only a few weeks into his six-year term as U.S. Senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul has gone off the tracks. He’d been putting the coal to the engine of the crazy train throughout his campaign, piling one embarrassing media disaster upon another, but...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Economy, Business and Finance, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Poverty, Environmental Issues
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The Social Security trust fund
Contributing columnistAtheme among the Democrats’ talking points recently is that Social Security does not contribute to the deficit/national debt problem since it is covered by a “trust fund,” and fund withdrawals will not be made for a couple of decades....Tags: Fraud, Bonds, Economy, Business and Finance, Career and Workplace, Republican Party
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Beshear's "Bad-Aid" replaced with some serious stitches
Contributing columnistGov. Steve Beshear’s deer-in-the-headlights approach to Kentucky’s Medicaid crisis on one hand leads to him claiming to have saved only $86 million in Medicaid spending this year, while on the other hand quietly seeking a waiver from one of...Tags: Medical Services, Budgets and Budgeting, Steve Beshear, Medicaid, Executive Branch
Jul 27, 2011
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Aug 2, 2011
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Aug 8, 2011
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Nov 10, 2011
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Jun 24, 2011
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Jun 20, 2011
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Jun 2, 2011
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May 24, 2011
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Jun 3, 2011
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Feb 2, 2011
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Mar 10, 2011
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Mar 7, 2011
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