Two months ago, I sent a note to my congressman, George Radanovich (California’s 19th Congressional District), asking him about his impending vote on the Health Care Reform bill. Today, I received a message from him. Here it is, with my response to him…

” Dear Friend:

Thank you for contacting me regarding H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. I appreciate hearing your thoughts and concerns… Continue reading

Earlier today, a small business owner friend of mine sent me this message:

“Glad to see you are blogging again. I don’t know much at all about the new health care bill, but based on what I learned the other day on a restaurant focused webinar this is what I think: You, a self-employed business owner without employees are probably winners. We, having less than 50 full-time employees, with… Continue reading

10 THINGS EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT HEALTH CARE REFORM

1. Once reform is fully implemented, over 95% of Americans will have health insurance coverage, including 32 million who are currently uninsured.2

2. Health insurance companies will no longer be allowed to deny people coverage because of preexisting conditions—or to drop coverage when people become sick.3

3. Just like members of Congress, individuals and small businesses who can’t afford to… Continue reading

On Wednesday, at a town hall meeting in Chickasha, Oklahoma, Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) told his audience that he was not going to read America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (H.R.3200): “I don’t have to read it, or know what’s in it. I’m going to oppose it anyways.”

“I don’t have to read it, or know what’s in it”? Yes, Senator, you have to know… Continue reading

#iranelection… one of many strings of characters that effectively broke the monolithic molds of perception over the entire planet; the people of Iran, albeit via the highly restrictive medium of 140 characters-only twitter, took on a third dimension, the dimension of living people just like you and I: people with yearnings for better days, aspirations for tangible elements of justice in their daily lives, people of this, our world. Iranians… Continue reading

Tags: twitter #iranelection #neda

Dear Congress Person / Senator,

Soon you will be asked to vote on a badly needed health care reform, which will potentially reshape the health care and health insurance industries for the better. I strongly urge you to pass the most aggressive health care reform bill, which must include a subsidized public option, as long as the public option means that one can purchase affordable health insurance from a… Continue reading

Movie: A compelling analysis of food production practices since the 19th century, sharp reduction of food diversity, and the probable impact of 20th century patent decisions and 21st century biotechnology industry as well as potential issues in the management and control of world food production and distribution. Deborah Koons Garcia directed this gem and can be contacted from the movie’s website at http://www.thefutureoffood.com/

Tags: famine, Farming, Food industry

Further ignoring that his party had been soundly defeated in the last two major national elections, former vice president Dick Cheney keeps reclaiming media attention, and the seemingly vacant Republican Party microphone, in defense of the Bush years, as if the failed policies of the last administration were still relevant. The former news maker posited today that bringing Guantanamo detainees to the highest security prisons on US soil somehow equates… Continue reading

Tags: Dick Cheney, Guantanamo, Politics

After checking their spines with their coats at the Capitol, earlier today, and intent on forgetting the policies they had championed for 8 years, House republicans mechanically heeded to the hard lines that have helped bring down the world economy, refusing to recognize their primary responsibility in the unbridled spending of the last two decades (1994 to 2006), during which they controlled Congress.

In 2008, the Bush administration increased… Continue reading

Tags: Economic Stimulus, Taxes

The horse is not dead yet, but there is still a lot of beating going on… unedited C-Span footage has been featuring politicians in the House of Representatives or on the Senate floor, full of posturing, confusing and positioning language instead of what this nation needs: common sense.

Run the tape: the economy, under its own self-healing supervision – some believe – drove itself into the ground. The government… Continue reading

Tags: Economic Stimulus

Our economy is slowing down at a faster pace than anticipated. The daily announcements of market leading companies’ layoffs across all sectors and markets of the economy in service, retail or manufacturing, should provide enough reasons, for all the politicians on the Hill, to urgently implement an aggressive economic stimulative package. Congress must aggressively enact a bold move to create demand in our sagging economy, to slow down, and eventually… Continue reading

Tags: Economic Stimulus