Congressman Brady took to the airwaves reacting to President Obama's West Point speech and the newly announced Afghanistan policy.
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Congressman Brady took to the airwaves reacting to President Obama's West Point speech and the newly announced Afghanistan policy.
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Kevin Brady is not happy. Not at all. The Republican congressman from The Woodlands, who represents the north Houston suburbs and a wide swath of East Texas, ran for office in 1996 preaching the gospel of free markets and fiscal conservatism. And over the last few years, he has watched the economy plummet.
He was unhappy two weeks after a trip to Singapore, where meetings with trade ministers, business leaders and diplomats left him convinced that the U.S. economy is slipping behind global competitors. But it was his nationally televised clash last Thursday with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that secured his place as a grass-roots conservative superstar.
"The economic numbers keep getting worse," the 54-year-old former Chamber of Commerce executive said in an interview. "The stimulus has become a late-night comedy punch line. We're losing ground to other countries whose economies are recovering much faster than ours."
To read the full article on the Chronicle's website, CLICK HERE!
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...with four engaging radio appearances this morning.
]]>Give the mainstream news media some credit: They have diligently dug into President Obama's fanciful boasts of job creation. When Obama claimed earlier this month that his $787 billion economic stimulus package had "saved or created" 640,000 jobs, a dozen news organizations pounced. They soon highlighted some of the most egregious cases of sketchy job creation in about 20 states.
From their reports, The Examiner has created an online interactive map for tracking exaggerated stimulus claims. So far, more than 75,000 jobs -- exceeding 10 percent of the total -- are either highly doubtful or clearly imaginary. In the coming weeks, we expect to add many thousands more to that total as other media organizations scrutinize stimulus grants in their areas...
To read the whole article click here and look below for the aforementioned map.
The $1.3 trillion-plus price tag is just the beginning. The cost is $1.3 trillion—$260 billion more than HR 3200. And unlike HR 3200, the latest CBO estimate doesn’t even include the $245 billion “doc fix” Democrats stripped out of the new bill to hide its true costs.
Cuts Medicare for our seniors. Cuts over $460 billion from Medicare, including hospitals, home health and hospice care. Includes nearly $240 billion in cuts to the Medicare Advantage program, which is the first choice of poor, rural and minority seniors...
To read Congressman Brady's healthcare fact sheet in its entirety CLICK HERE.
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...you might care to peruse the 2,000 pages of Speaker Pelosi's magnum healthcare opus and see what $894 billion dollars of tax payer money can buy you nowadays.]]>...and after watching this video, listen to our new radio podcasts of Kevin's appearances this morning on Edd Hendee and JP & Lana!
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