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Securitized Auto Loans 'going to explode'
Published on Apr 11, 2012 by TheAlyonaShow

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Why the Democrats' 'Mediscare' Attack Won't Work Against Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney
http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2012/08/11/why-the
-democrats-mediscare-attack-wont-work-against-paul-ryan/

excerpt:
Obamacare reduces Medicare spending using a government-centered approach. The law creates a new panel, called the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which will be composed of 15 unelected government officials, who will be charged with rationing care to seniors, primarily by underpaying doctors and hospitals.

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CMS’ Value-Based Purchasing Program Is In the Works
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
http://www.altergroup.com/alter-care-blog/index.php
/tag/diagnosis-related-group-payments/

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Legislative Summary:
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

http://www.ashp.org/DocLibrary/AboutUs/Legislative
-SummaryFinal-Reform-Bill.aspx
excerpt:
Hospitalizations
This bill creates a hospital value-based purchasing program that would provide value-based performance payments to hospitals meeting performance standards for discharges. Each hospital would receive an annual performance score from which performance payments would be based. Performance payments would be funded through reduced hospital diagnosis-related group (DRG) payments. DRG payments will be reduced by 1% in fiscal year 2013, 1.25% in fiscal year 2014, 1.5% in fiscal year 2015, 1.75% in fiscal year 2016, and 2% in fiscal year 2017 and each following fiscal year.

Medicine: The Death of a Profession
by Leonard Peikoff

This lecture was first delivered on April 14,1985 at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston.
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=arc_leonard_peikoff_medicine_the_death_of_a_profession

Branco cartoons
http://legalinsurrection.com/tag/a-f-branco/

Who really unchained Wall Street?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/08/who
_really_unchained_wall_street.html

excerpt:

Bush - 1,300 convictions;

Clinton - 1,000 convictions;

Obama - Zero attempts.

Monday, Dec 12, 2011 04:23 PM EST
Obama: I can’t comment on Wall Street prosecutions
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/12/obama_i_cant_comment
_on_wall_street_prosecutions/

Obama Needs Hillary, But Does She Need Him?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-needs
-hillary-she-doesnt-need-him_645744.html

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Student Unionism, Why Don’t American Students Strike?
http://studentpower2012.org/student-unionism-why-dont
-american-students-strike/

excerpt:
As a recent graduate and student organizer, I headed north last month to compare notes with my Canadian counterparts.

Average annual tuition in Québec stands at $2,500, dwarfed by America’s average tuition of $12,800 at public institutions and $32,000 at private ones. The average Québec student debt is a mere $13,000 compared with America’s $25,000. And in 2012, 7.2 percent of US college grads were unemployed, beating out Québec’s 6.3 percent.

According to the Associated Press, 53.6 percent of Americans under 26 with a Bachelor’s are jobless or underemployed. That’s 1.5 million people. That could fill a lot of streets.

Students Converge at Obama Office to Reclaim Voice
http://studentpower2012.org/action-press-release/

excerpt:
“You can preach economic growth all day but there are no jobs on a dying planet.

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We are now raising our voices to join the rallying cry of student movements across the world, addressing common global grievances, and resisting a system that does not serve the majority of us. Noting that access to higher education has become increasingly out of reach for much of the population due to skyrocketing tuition and burdensome loans, Lainie Rini of Ohio State University compares our education system to a factory: “Our current education system denies anyone but the privileged access to quality education. It is farming students for profit rather than being a space for inquiry and thought.”

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The current situation has demonstrated that we cannot passively depend upon our leaders to save our society. We call for American youth to take action much like students across the globe in places like Quebec, Mexico, Chile, Spain, and Puerto Rico, who are mobilizing to demand their rights. Democracy cannot exist without demonstration and debate in public spaces.

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Krauthammer: Democrats Have "Stepped On A Land Mine With Medicare"
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/08/15/krauthammer_
democrats_have_stepped_on_a_land_mine_with_medicare.html

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Former Obama campaign co-chair to stump for Romney
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/15/former-obama
-campaign-co-chair-to-stump-for-romney/