Obama Budget Cuts Visualization

A great video that puts the $100 million dollar budget cuts proposed by Obama in April in perspective.

1776 (the musical)

A great tradition I got from my wife's side of the family is watching 1776 a musical about how the Declaration of Independence came to be.



Here is a list of those in this scene.

Massachsetts - John Adams
Pennsylvania - Benjamin Franklin
Connecticut - Roger Sherman
New York - Philip Livingston
Virginia - Thomas Jefferson

Unemployment Rate With and Without the Recovery Plan

Here is an updated graph to the story I linked to earlier. I got it from Innocent Bystanders.

Romney talks about Government option health care

Hugh Hewitt interviewed Mitt Romney about the major changes being considered in Health Care Insurance. The crux of it for me is why providing a government paid option will be so bad for patients as well as doctors and health insurance providers.

Having a government option will turn into a single payer system like Canada has. Employers choose what insurance options to provide employers. They are going to pick the government option because it is tax payer subsidized. The government is going to eat up a lot of the money in red tape administration of the program.

The system may "cost" patients less out of pocket, but they are really going to pay in longer wait times and sometime unavailable services.

The Geography of Jobs

Here is an interactive map from TipStrategies.com.

It shows the job losses that happened as a result of hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the US car companies job losses that started in 2006. It continues to show the losses in other metropolitan areas that started to mushroom at the end of 2008.