Archive for December, 2009

Is it Constitutional?

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

The Senate’s Health Care Bill has a clause the says it can’t be repealed by a future Congress.  Doesn’t it take a Constitutional Amendment to do that?

The Senate’s Health Care Bill  treats people in different States differently.  Doesn’t this violate the “equal protection” clause of the Constitution?

How else does this The Senate’s Health Care Bill violate the Constitution?

The Senate has a deal for us!

Monday, December 21st, 2009

“Have I got a deal for you!”

You can start paying for health insurance in 2010, but you can’t have it until 2014, or later.

They are taking away funding for the Medicare Advantage programs, but claim they are not taking benefits away from Medicare.

They are cutting the amount doctors get paid for Medicare patients, but claim to improve patient care.

Brevard County Schools Redistricting

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

The Brevard County School Board is considering redistricting some neighborhoods to ease overcrowding at some schools and more efficiently use other schools.

The facilities department has proposed some options that violate their criteria:

  1. Students who live within 2 miles of a school should not be bussed to another school.
  2. Students should not be bussed past one school to another.

The school board should also end “soft redistricting”, where children (and any siblings not yet in school) can continue to attend the old school while their neighbors go to the new school. In many cases this results in 2 busses entering the same neighborhood to take children to two different elementary schools. If money is so tight that teachers and staff haven’t had raises in two years, then how can the board justify this waste?

Obama’s job summit?

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Was there anyone there that is likely to be hiring soon or was it all political posturing?