Farmers in the Monterey Bay area of California have been feeding their artichoke plants with recycled urban wastewater.
But population growth and other factors, including climate change, are dictating that California and other dry states become more efficient in their use of water. Read More
No more artichokes for me! Could this be why we’re having so many foods recalled? Are you looking forward to the future of Obama’s “Green plans”?
Veterans groups are skeptical about legislation to overhaul health care, despite efforts from President Barack Obama and Democratic lawmakers to try to allay fears that certain benefits will be taken away or changed under the reform proposal.
the president was not giving veterans the full story, said Rep. Steve Buyer (R-Ind.), ranking member on the House Veterans Affairs Committee.
“What President Obama did not say is how the proposed health care reform bill could subject veterans to a 2.5 percent individual penalty tax for failure to have ‘acceptable coverage’ as required by the bill,” Buyer said in a statement.
“Despite what the president has said, the bill could still negatively affect veterans and has not been fixed. I will continue to work to ensure that the bill is amended so veterans could not be subject to this tax or adversely affected by any of the other provisions in the bill,” Buyer added.
Page 167 of the 1,018-page House health care reform bill calls for a 2.5 percent income tax penalty for individuals who are not carrying “acceptable coverage,” but page 172 has language that seems to exempt those who are on Medicare, Medicaid, veterans benefits, and members of the armed forces from paying the tax.
Nonetheless, the House Energy and Commerce Committee rejected an amendment by Buyer that explicitly stated that veterans benefits would be acceptable and not be subject to the tax penalty. Read More
We Veterans need to makes sure that the health care bill is read and understood before congress votes on it. Also I for one Veteran will not support a bill that the democrats use the 51 votes to get pass when they have enough democrats without the Republicans to use the standard 60 votes! Come 2010 the democrats will pay highly for ramping this Obamacare bill down the throats of we the people! Why does Obama leave out things he don’t want us to know about? why does he keep lying to everyone? Something really wrong with what he is doing to our great Country! Stand up and be heard now before its to late!
While scientists have tested secondhand smoke exposure in automobiles before, Navas-Acien noted in an interview, they had only done so in the lab. “We wanted to evaluate what those levels could be under … normal, real-world driving conditions,” she said.
“This is because the car is a very small place,” Navas-Acien noted. The results, she and her colleagues conclude in the journal Tobacco Control, “support the need for education measures and legislation that regulate smoking in motor vehicles when passengers, especially children, are present.” Read More
Freedom is taken a little here and a little their until we shall have no freedom! Areas set aside for smokers, no smoking in government buildings, then no Smoking in Restaurants and now look at this study where smoking in your own private car will be banned. The government needs to keep their corrupt dirty hands out of Americans every day life.
Time to wake up people, stand together to stop our country from being a socialist jail where we can do nothing without government permission. How many of you want the government to rule everything you do? Well to be honest with our self thats what Obama and the Democrats want. Yes a socialist Country!
