“We came here to build a future”
Barack Obama, September 9th, 2009
Text of the speech Video of the speech
Some of it is a little dated, still quite informational
http://www.nationmaster.com/cat/hea-health&all=1
Check out expenditure as a percent of a country’s GDP for 2004 ( http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_exp_tot_of_gdp-health-expenditure-total-of-gdp&date=2004 )
Or start at 2000 ( http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_exp_tot_of_gdp-health-expenditure-total-of-gdp&date=2000 ) and watch it rise to 2004 (compare to other industrialized countries)
Have fun while you get the numbers!
A loss to Progression’s need for people to stand up and be counted.
The next time the Canadian system is cited as a reason why we don’t want what they have consider:
On average Canadians live 3 years longer than Americans.
Canadian infant mortality is 20% lower than the U.S.
Canada spends 10% of GDP on health care compared to 15.3% in the U.S.
Half of all personal bankruptcies in the U.S. [...]
I Am Organizing For Health Care
Presidential Press Conference July 22nd, 2009
Iowa House of Representatives
Friday, June 19, 2009
For More Information:
Rep. Wenthe, 563-427-4831
Rep. Thomas, 563-245-1094
Des Moines, Iowa – The Iowa Legislature expanded health care to an additional 30,000 uninsured kids during the 2009 session with a goal that every Iowa child has quality, affordable health care by 2011.
“In these difficult economic times, I’m proud we are helping [...]
As usual, a subject can be more complex than a sound bite.
Here is a link to an analysis by the Iowa Fiscal Partnership.
This will give you some information to use when a soundbitebot is trying to muddy the discussion.
We also have it here as web page converted from the original PDF file. It’s quicker to [...]
The Iowa State Democratic Party Senate staff has put together a review of the 2009 Iowa Legislative Session.
You can view it as a PDF file .
Or Google has a version of it converted to be a web page. It’s a little rough, but loads more quickly to a browser.
Iowa DOT establishes temporary customer service phone line
AMES, Iowa – June 12, 2008 – Due to the high volume of public inquires about road closings in the state, the Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT) has established a temporary customer service phone line.
866-452-8510
This line should NOT be used to report an emergency [...]
It was a single January night, but its a night that we will remember for years.
Simply put it, WE DID IT.
No, this isn’t bragging about the performance of a candidate. Quite the contrary. Instead its a celebration of what we all did working together. The 2008 Iowa Caucus is historic in its [...]
