Archive for the ‘Reform’ Category

What Happens When You Run Out of Other People’s Money?

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="233" caption="A Young Margaret Thatcher"][/caption] The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." —Margaret Thatcher John Mackey of Whole Foods makes a case for an the Free Market Health Care Reform.  There are others. Pat Toomey offers three specific changes in tax code. The Free ...

Reform Rollback: McCall’s Deceit

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Speaker Keith McCall denied Reform Rollback before he rolled back reform.  The Conservative Reform Network has blogged extensively on HR 39 and the Democrats have exposed their 2007-2008 reforms as phony.

Lockstep Lemming Democrats Vote to Repeal Reform Rules

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Every Republican voted against weakening the reform rules passed last year by the Democrats with much posturing. Not a single Democrat voted to retain Reform Rules. Very, very disappointing The Democrat-controlled House rules passed tonight take the three most important changes of Rules Reform Commission and either eliminate or weaken ...

Democrats Musical Chairs and Unvouchered Expenses

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Eric Epstein, a Righteous Democrat, hammers Democratic Leadership. On the Republican side, John Perzel was defeated for Republican House Majority Leader. While Sam Smith is hardly a reformer, keeping Perzel out of leadership was key step toward reform. Mario Civera is Republican Chair of Appropriations and major porker. Representative Mike ...

Reforming $$$$ State Contract and Procurement Process

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

Some of us still think Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances mean something; we may be naïve idealists but we can hope. See "Legislators Introduce Bills Aimed at Reforming State Contracts" In times of revenue shortfalls, it is even more necessary to focus on competitive bidding for services that State ...