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  • Name: Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr.
  • Location: Knoxville, TN
  • Web: duncan.house.gov/
  • Bio: I have proudly represented the 2nd Congressional District of Tennessee since 1988, devoting my career to advocating smaller government and fiscal responsibility.
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The Real Cost of the Health Bill

Amplify’d from www.weeklystandard.com

President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and their allies, are cheerfully citing “ten year” costs of $940,000,000,000.00 — apparently believing this to be a far more palatable figure than $1 trillion.  But even this colossal tally is like the introductory price quoted by a cell phone provider.  It’s the price before you pay for minutes, fees, and overcharges — and before the price balloons after the introductory offer expires. 

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Another Bailout In the Works

Is anyone even keeping count anymore? Auto - Banks - AIG - Stimulus - TARP - Fannie - Freddie - they just keep spending. If we continue to spend in this manner, it will not be too much longer before we can not pay for any of the things we have promised our people with money that will be worth anything. If I recall, the President promised that if Congress passe... read more

Amplify’d from www.rollcall.com
Hoyer said he expected the measure to be more targeted than the $787 billion stimulus bill that lawmakers approved in February but declined to target a price tag. And it is not yet clear whether the plan will be paid for, in whole or in part. Read more at www.rollcall.com
 

America’s Forced March to Mediocrity

If only General Douglas McArthur knew when he said this that in the year 2009, we would be ,000 in debt for every citizen: “It becomes increasingly clear that the pattern of American fiscal policy is being brought into consonance with the Karl Marx communist theory that through a division of the existing wealth, mankind will be brought to a universal standa... read more

Amplify’d from www.canadafreepress.com
Today, the United States of America, a nation that once prospered beyond imagination, and stood as the final barrier between liberty loving societies and tyrannical regimes on a global scale, is in the Twilight Zone.Read more at www.canadafreepress.com
 

Could America go broke?

Lets do the math: 12,000,000,000,000 dollars in debt (and rising) divided by 300 million citizens = 40,000 dollars of debt for every man, woman, and child. And this does not even factor in Speaker Pelosi's 1,200,000,000,000 dollar health care monstrosity. As someone recently told me, it is easy to run as Santa Claus, but it is almost impossible to run against ... read more

Amplify’d from www.washingtonpost.com
Governments of rich countries are borrowing so much that it’s conceivable that one day the twin assumptions underlying their burgeoning debt (that lenders will continue to lend and that governments will continue to pay) might collapse. What happens then? Read more at www.washingtonpost.com
 

WSJ: Health Care Bill = “Delusional”

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More than a few Democrats in Congress are perplexed and worried that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is insisting on ramming through a 1,900-page health care bill on Saturday, just days after her party took heavy losses in Tuesday’s elections. “It reminds me of Major Nicholson, the obsessed British major in the film ‘Bridge on the River Kwai,’” one Democrat told me. “She is fixated on finishing her health care bridge even as she’s lost sight of where it’s going and what damage it could cause to her own troops.”

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Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) says Democrats are “trying on every front to increase the role of government.”

That might be the understatement of the Year.  I will add this quote from a speech I gave on the floor last week regarding solar power in response:  “It’s called free enterprise.  Some people may have heard of it.”  If you’re interested, the speech is posted on my YouTube page at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubBO72g92_k

Amplify’d from www.realclearpolitics.com
Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) says Democrats are “trying on every front to increase the role of government.”Read more at www.realclearpolitics.com
 

the FOX News Factor

Amplify’d from www.washingtonpost.com
While government can and should debate and criticize opposition voices, the current White House goes beyond that. It wants to delegitimize any significant dissent. The objective is no secret. White House aides openly told Politico that they’re engaged in a deliberate campaign to marginalize and ostracize recalcitrants, from Fox to health insurers to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Read more at www.washingtonpost.com