Debt Relief & Management

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The IMF has granted Haiti $1.2 billion in debt relief, freeing up money for the government to spend on health, education, and fighting poverty.

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Sen. John McCain talks about health care at a town hall meeting in Phoenix. Affordable and available to all Americans. Not government run and owner insurance service. In 8 year Medicare is going to be bankrupt. Social Security is next.

2009 Federal government give-a-ways of your hard earned tax dollars. The 2009 stimulus package is 787 Billion dollars. (1.1 Trillion) when you count the interest (Paid mainly to China). $700 Billion this year to bailout the banks and financial companies.

$410 billion omnibus spending bill. There are 9000 earmarks “PORK” in this one bill. Here are some good examples how you the taxpayer are getting ed! $200,000 for Tattoo Removal Violence Prevention Outreach Program, pg. 283. *$5.8 million earmark for the Ted Kennedy Institute for the Senatefor the planning and design of a building & an endowment, pg. 232. *and National Council of La Raza, $473,000 earmark from Sens. Bingaman and Menendez, pg. 212.

This is nothing but pure corruption in our federal government. Starting with the President himself and almost the entire congress. Both Democrats & Republicans. How long are you going to put up with a corrupt federal government?

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http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/07/lambrew_budget_testimony.html

With health care costs escalating at rates that dramatically exceed wage growth and inflation, future health care spending poses a significant challenge for the Federal budget, for employers, and for families. Health care spending in the United States doubled between 1996 and 2006, and is expected to double again in the next decade. Policymakers and political candidates of all philosophical stripes have offered dramatically different strategies for controlling health care spending. These approaches range from placing the locus of health care spending decisions – and risk for health care costs – with individuals and families, to making long-term investments in prevention, better information and better health care quality that will be best realized if all Americans have health care coverage.

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Citizens from Kansas speak out about the future of health care.

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Mike magee in this week’s Health Commentary says that credit card debt can be bad for financial and mental health.

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