Posts Tagged ‘NY Times’
How the NY Times would have reported on Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride
NY Times reports on Paul Revere, April 18, 1773
From rightwingnews.com
Baffled by Health Plan? So Are Some Lawmakers
By ROBERT PEAR, NY Times, Published: April 12, 2010
WASHINGTON — It is often said that the new health care law will affect almost every American in some way. And, perhaps fittingly if unintentionally, no one may be more affected than members of Congress themselves.
In a new report, the Congressional Research Service says the law may have significant unintended consequences for the “personal health insurance coverage” of senators, representatives and their staff members.
For example, it says, the law may “remove members of Congress and Congressional staff” from their current coverage, in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, before any alternatives are available.
The confusion raises the inevitable question: If they did not know exactly what they were doing to themselves, did lawmakers who wrote and passed the bill fully grasp the details of how it would influence the lives of other Americans?
Read more at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/us/politics/13health.html
This was in the NY Times?
The REAL Inconvenient Truth: WE’RE BROKE!
$1.4 Trillion Deficit Complicates Stimulus Plans
by Jackie Calmes, NY Times, October 16, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday that the federal budget deficit for the fiscal year that just ended was $1.4 trillion, nearly a trillion dollars greater than the year before and the largest shortfall relative to the size of the economy since 1945.
. . . The shortfall for the fiscal year 2009, which ended Sept. 30, translates to 10 percent of the economy, according to a joint statement from the Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, and the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter R. Orszag. For the 2008 fiscal year, the deficit of $459 billion was 3.2 percent of the economy, as measured by the gross domestic product.
Economists generally agree that annual deficits should not exceed 3 percent of the G.D.P., and that is the level President Obama had vowed to reach by the end of his first term in 2013.
Read more at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/us/17deficit.html
Psst: Don’t tell the Chines!!