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What if people got into business and were paid to pick up the recyclables. Hmmm This article popped that thought out.

Happy New Year blessed with smaller government! Keep up the great work, Ed and Team Cato.

Only 157 billion of the stimulus bill has been spent, time to reprogram some of the remaining money instead of passing a new stimulus bill. Turns out that on average 429 million went to every Democrat district and 230 million to every republican district, sounds like the stimulus bill was merely a Chicago alderman bill, give twice as much to every ... See MoreDem ward oh I mean congr district and half as much to every Republican ward, oh I mean congressional district. This is graft, this is corruption on a natinal scale. This is Chicago writ large, this is info from analysis by the economic institute at George Mason University of the 787 billion stimulus bill, not based on areas iwth highest unemployment, not based on lowest income districts, no all based on partisan politics alone.

altogether now slush fund

Trent, so what your saying is you trust the gov more to do the right thing....I don't understand that. What planet do you live on? The Post Office is a large organization with a relatively simple business model. The gov cannot even run a Post Office and control the cost. The gov already runs both public health clinics and VA hospitals..... Here's a news flash no one wants to go there for a reason. I know I work in health Care.

There is only one thing that is see gov doing well, very well. They field the best Military in the world. And quite honestly, sometimes, that scares the hell out on me. Everything else they screw up.

A day of reckoning is coming at the ballot box.... See More

I like everyone getting health care, but I sure didn't like the care I got from the government run VA years ago.

Ditto Michael, BHO, Pelosi and Reid make up the "evil trinity".

Succinct summary of the prevarication and lies rampant in the debate.

I'll bet Maas is a Southerner, just wild guess

Lincoln is overrated, but certainly not he worst president in history. I actually see him as similar to Bush II in some respects. Overbearing and almost tyrannical at times, but somewhat well-intentioned.

@Bill and Sonny - The answer here is obvious. We wouldn't want Bill to have a major accident and have to pay huge amounts out of pocket. Therefore, we must hit Bill with a serious penalty for not getting the health insurance we feel he needs. And it is also in the name of justice that we tax sonny, myself, and everyone else to make sure that Bill can afford to do the Right Thing. (How was that? Should I run for senate?)

And we are supposed to trust Serbelius to administer this plan with her voting record on abortions and tax record etc. etc. etc.

We need a new House of Rep in 2010, start changing Senate also and new Prez in 2012 or this country will continue to go to Hell in a handbasket very very quickly

I could not agree more that we need a new President and change out both the senate and the congress. We need to remove Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid from their thrones.