Tag Archives: scare tactics

Stop Scaring People! That’s My Job

December 10, 2009 – 10:29 am

The Wall Street Journal reports on a testy exchange between President Obama and Congressional Republicans at the White House yesterday.
“At one point, the president told Republican leaders to ‘stop trying to frighten the American people,’ displaying a chart showing diminishing job losses over the past four quarters, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said after [...]

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It Could Happen to You

September 14, 2009 – 9:52 am

This morning, former Clinton Administration Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman discussed an array of issues on CNBC. Asked by Erin Burnett whether taxes on health care companies to pay for reform will be passed on to consumers through higher prices for health insurance, Altman candidly replied (at about the 5:30 mark):
Well I think everyone knows [...]

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Student Loans Foreshadowing Health Care?

July 15, 2009 – 9:11 am

I don’t want to scare anyone, but if you really believe President Obama’s government-run health care option is just a benign attempt to inject some competition into the health care system (I’m lookin’ at you, Paul and Robert Reich), take a look at what Congressman George Miller is proposing for the student loan industry.
In today’s [...]

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