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Author Sharon Sala to Speak at
Purcell Library
"Evenone is invited to hear New York Tinies bestselling au-
thor Sharon Sala and have lunch on the Friends of the Purcell
Library." said Gene Harryman. president of the library support
group Sala will be guest speaker for the friends’ luncheon Thurs-
day. Feb. 12 from noon to 1 p.m. She will have books available
for purchase and to autograph.
The special event is the Friends of the Purcell Library’s an-
nual meeting and an opportunity to join the organization. The
friends support the library in a number of ways including provid-
ing volunteers for special events and raising funds for special
projects and programs.
Sharon Sala is a long-time member of Romance Writers of
America (RWA). as well as a member of OKRWA. She has 78
plus books in print, written as Sharon Sala and Dinah McCall.
First published in 1991. she’s a five-time RITA finalist, winner
of the Janet Daily Award, four-time Career Achievement winner
from RT magazine. National Reader's Choice Award, and Colo-
rado Romance Writer's Award of Excellence winners five times
each. Her books are New York Times. USA today. Publisher's
Weekly. Waldenbooks mass market best-sellers. Writing changed
her life, her world, and her fate.
For information about the luncheon or about the library, call
527-5546
STIMULUS
PACKAGE IS PORK
LADDEN!
If you were mired in credit card debt and had hot checks
all over town, would you confidently state, “I’m going to
spend my way out of this mess?” Not likely! Your creditors
would laugh at you for your completely illogical strategy to
handle your economic crisis, but that’s exactly what President
Obama said in early January. “At this particular moment,
only government can provide the short-term boost necessary
to lift us from a recession this deep and severe,” Mr Obama
said. “Only government can break the vicious cycles that are
crippling our economy.”
The reason we are in the economic mess we are in is because
government’s mandated lending to unqualified, irresponsibile
people, but Obama still believes government is going to save
our bacon after getting us into this mess?
There is a precedent of “priming the pump” or stimulating
the economy . Presidents Kennedy and Reagan pushed for
economic stimulus monies that placed monies into the hands
of taxpayers, but it wasn’t spent on government programs.
The $850 billion dollar stimulus bill that passed the house last
week is nothing more than a huge spending bill according to
U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe, R-OK. Inhofe says the bill provides
tax refunds for people who don’t pay taxes and gives checks
of up to a $1,000 to illegal immigrants.
Inhofe points out the bill is loaded with pork that has nothing
to do with helping the economy. It has $30 billion for
federal building improvements, $1.5 billion for homeless
prevention, $650 million for digital TV coupons, $650
million for wildlife management, $600 million for the federal
government to buy new enviromentally friendly cars. It also
includes $570 million for climate change and $75 million for
stop smoking activities.
The bill is being scrutinized increasingly by Republicans and
economists because it doles out billions of taxpayer dollars
for everything from the 2010 census to university research to
contraceptives at family-planning clinics - areas far removed
from the meltdown in finance, housing and automotive
industries.
On Sunday, Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Ben Nelson
(D-Neb.) said on CNN that they would have a hard time
voting for the House bill.
“It would be hard for me to vote for it,” Collins said of the
House bill, one of four Republicans senators who supported
a version of the bill approved by the Senate Appropriations
Committee last week. Collins is a moderate at best and often
breaks rank with Republicans in the Senate.
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“Same thing for me,” said Nelson, who appeared alongside
Collins, and who is among the most conservative Democrats
in the Senate. “It would be very' difficult for me to vote for
(for the House bill). I hope that doesn't happen.”
“1 like parts of it, that are based on infrastructure,” Nelson
continued, “but there's an awful lot of spending in it that I
think is questionable.”
“I think all of us support the fact that we need to do
something.” Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said Sunday on ABC’s
This Week. “And ail of us believe that the way to move our
economy forw ard and protect jobs is to infuse more money so
that consumers have more to spend, businesses have more to
invest, buy capital equipment.”
"But there are two ways to do that," DeMint continued.
"One is for the government to take it out of the private sector
through taxes and then decide where it’s going to go through
political manipulation, as they’ve done in the House. The
other is just to leave more money in the private sector for
consumers to spend and businesses to invest."
The Herbage Foundation has identified three basic problems
with the supposed pump priming tool. First, it places too
much money back into the hands of government and not into
the private sector. Second, it increases the already out of
control national debt. Third, the most expensive items in the
program are proven losers.
Webster defines stimulus as. “something that incites to action
or exertion or quickens action.” The House bill does none
of that—it only panders to special interest and is business as
usual for the Democrats.
Senators Reject Giving Low-
Income Children Access to
Same Health Insurance as
Their Children
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Tom Cobum, M.D.
(R-OK), a practicing physician, offered an alternative to the
State Children’s Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP) last night that
would have given all SCHIP children access to the same health
care members of Congress provide to their children. Yet, the
Cobum amendment was defeated 36-62. The Cobum amend-
ment would have avoided raising taxes by $7) billion, as did the
plan that passed.
“Without spending a penny more, this alternative would have
given needy children access to the same health care plan that
Members of Congress provide to their own kids. Yet, the Senate
refused to give working Americans access to the same choices
and quality of care they give their own children. By doing so,
Senators showed they are more committed to maintaining the
ideological purity of single-payer, government-controlled health
care than solving this problem in a common sense manner.” Dr.
Cobum said.
Dr. Cobum’s SCHIP alternative would have established a
program to competitively bid private insurance coverage for
eligible children. The plan would have covered any child whose
parents are living below 300% of the federal poverty level, which
is equivalent to a family of four making less than $63,600 a
year. Currently. SCHIP is run by the same bureaucrats that run
state Medicaid programs, which gives limited access to patients.
Forty percent of qualified physicians refuse to participate in
Medicaid.
"When Senators visit with their constituents they should ask
them w hether they would want their children in SCHIP or a top
tier plan a Senators provide to their own kids. Senators should
also ask whether parents should have the right to make choices
about health care for their kids or whether those choices should
be made for them by career politicians and government bureau-
crats, Dr. Cobum said. "Sadly, this debate showed once again
that Congress, unlike President Obama, is not interested in change
but in recycling the same tailed Soviet-style health care policies
of the past."
Dr. Cobum also offered three additional amendments that
would have added greater financial tr^sparenCfJojhe program. ’
Full background on the Cobum alternative and related amend- ’
ments can be found at www.cobum.senate.gov.
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