Posted on March 6th, 2010 by Billie Kennedy Jr
I can understand some of the criticism of Government worker pay. It does look like they get paid quite a bit more than their private sector counterparts. And it is true. They do. Anyone can look at the pay scale and see that.
Why does a government broadcast technician make [...]
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Posted on February 1st, 2010 by Billie Kennedy Jr
I’m sure I heard President Obama mention that he was going to cut Spending. Could it have been the State of the Union address?
Now, he is going to do it again… No, not cut spending or propose to cut spending but actually increase spending in his new budget.
This guy is all over the [...]
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Posted on January 21st, 2010 by Billie Kennedy Jr
Imagine, if you will, that the Democrats actually believe in change for the good of everyone.
Our country continues to face the same fundamental challenges it faced yesterday. Our health care system still needs reform. Wall Street still needs to be held accountable. We still need to create good jobs. And we still need to continue [...]
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Posted on September 20th, 2009 by Billie Kennedy Jr
The Acorn boondoggle has been going on for over a week now. Yet the NWF Daily news still has little to say about it in Section A.
This is not much of a surprise even though the Editor Pat Rice has claimed to be bipartisan. Many of the stories run in the [...]
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Posted on August 9th, 2009 by Billie Kennedy Jr
Concern over the legislation H.R. 3200 is causing many Congressmen and Congresswomen to hold Townhall sessions to explain the legislation. Our Congressman Allen Boyd is no different in this.
Democrat Staff Writer Bill Cotterell over at the Florida Capital News reports on this as well.
Like many other members of Congress, U.S. Rep. Allen Boyd is [...]
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Posted on August 8th, 2009 by Billie Kennedy Jr
H.R.3200 – America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 was introduced on July 31, 2009. President Obama wanted this act voted on and passed before the Senate left for summer recess on Aug 7th.
This bill has over 1000 pages and would take an average person several days if not weeks to read [...]
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Posted on April 26th, 2009 by Billie Kennedy Jr
President Obama has passed his first 100 days as President and has racked up quite a list of Gaffes and Mistakes in the process. Many of them things that he said he wouldn’t do while he campaigned.
Here are some of those great mistakes:
54. After saying he wouldn’t have lobbyists in his administration, Obama made [...]
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Posted on February 20th, 2009 by Billie Kennedy Jr
The Stimulus Bill H.R. 1 was passed through both the Senate and House. Here is how our Congressmen voted.
On the original House Bill both Congressman Jeff Miller(R) and Congressman Allen Boyd(D) voted “No” on the Bill. Yet when the version passed the Senate, Congressman Allen Boyd changed his vote to “Yes” on the [...]
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Posted on February 13th, 2009 by Billie Kennedy Jr
Twitter still seems to be the up and coming web application of the year. More and more people are using it every day. Even the US Government is starting to use it.
Check out a list of Government agencies and officials using twitter to tweet about their votes and policies.
Could be quite useful in [...]
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Posted on February 9th, 2009 by Billie Kennedy Jr
I haven’t heard anything good about either version of the bill, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 H.R. 1. Nothing suggests that this will actually do anything for those it is supposed to help.
There is lots of money for projects that would be best financed through the normal channels. But there doesn’t [...]
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