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Shortly after President Obama signed the health overhaul law, several major corporations reported it would take a bite out of their future earnings. This group included AT&T, Caterpillar, John Deere, Verizon and several other large employers.

Convinced these businesses were cooking their books to cast the new law in a bad light, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) promptly subpoenaed documents and demanded executives testify to defend their announcements. But after combing through 1,100 pages of corporate documents and e-mails, Waxman’s staff canceled the hearing – and announced that “the companies acted properly and in accordance with accounting standards.”

In other words, even though some lawmakers don’t want to believe it, Obamacare is already proving costly to American businesses. And ironically, the new law could cause many workers to lose the health benefits they get through their jobs.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/06/17/2010-06-17_a_bad_omen_on_obamacare_fears_about_health_reforms_costs_are_coming_true.html#ixzz0rZrINmkx

Patrick Murphy, D-PA08 voted FOR this massive centrally-planned, Soviet-style healthcare blueprint.

When will the Bucks County Media start to hold Murphy and his inside-the-beltway cronies Specter & Casey accountable for this growing mess – the healthcare equivalent of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico??

White House budget director Peter Orszag, a top lieutenant on President Obama’s economic team, will be leaving his post next month, administration officials said Monday.

Orszag, 41, the first senior cabinet official to resign, helped steer the $787 billion economic stimulus bill through Congress.

While perhaps a small victory for conservatives and pragmatic people across the board, it is telling that while we the people have been plunged into record levels of debt, we finally have a “change” worth believing. The downside is who will replace him… “the devil you know vs. the devil you don’t…”

It will also be interesting to see who hires Orzag and where. Will he continue to live in the “Beltway Wonderland”, or some other Fantasia environment.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/06/22/2010-06-22_obamas_budget_boss_is_quitting.html#ixzz0rZnVK1xQ

Patrick Murphy PA, D-08 voted against selling $15,000,000,000.00 (Yea BILLIONs) in Excess Federal Property:

Sell Excess Federal Property
Potential savings of up to $15 billion
The Office of Management and Budget estimated in 2007 that the federal government is holding $18 billion in real property that it does not need. Rather than selling this property, however, Federal law usually requires that it first be offered, often at no cost, to other government agencies, to state and local governments, to non-profits, and others. The federal government has conveyed at no cost: a building in Las Vegas that is intended to house the “mob museum,” land in Massachusetts for a private high school where tuition is over $29,000 a year, and a building in Florida that the federal government now leases back at a cost of over $100,000 a year. This proposal would amend federal law to require an expedited process for selling unneeded federal property with 80% of the proceeds used to reduce the deficit.

PS. Where is the Bucks County media in all this? Why aren’t they asking the hard questions of Murphy, Casey & Specter for you the hard-working Voters of Bucks County?