The House voted Friday to approve a bill to allow Americans to keep their health care plans even if the plan does not meet the requirements of Obamacare. Thirty-nine Democrats joined all of the House Republicans in voting for the bill; Jim Cooper was not one of them. For more on this, follow this link.
A. Councilman Anthony Davis – Potential Closure of Stratford High SchoolThe Board approves changes at MLK and the use of fund balances to fund an early buy-out retirement incentive program and new technology investments.
B. Logan Ashworth – Stratford High’s Transformation (A Stratford Student leader)
C. Vera Davis – Involvement with Stratford High’s Transformation (She speaks passionately)
D. Bob Bogen – The Great Voucher Fraud (Bogen is former head of the MNEA teachers union and a former candidate for school board. He obviously does not like school choice.)
E. Ameeka Burnett – Teachers Mistreating/Mishandling Students
F. Thomas Weber – Charter Schools
G. Chelle Baldwin – Valuing School Community
H. Henry Dobbins – Stratford High Transformation
I. Michael Steele – Stratford High Transformation
J. Pastor Glenda Sutton – Stratford High Transformation
K. Venus Wooten – Closing under capacity schools in East Nashville
L. Maggie Thomas - Closing under capacity schools in East Nashville
M. Leigh Ann Johnson - Closing under capacity schools in East Nashville
N. John Gregory - Stratford High Transformation
O. Cindy Walker – MLK Expansion Proposal
P. Victoria Pao - MLK Expansion Proposal
Q. Cesar Muedas – Communicating Strategy to get buy-in from parents
From Stephen Clements:
Hi again,
Just your friendly reminder of our next get-together this
Saturday! Also, should you find yourself getting lost on the way to the
coffee house, feel free to call me at (901) 592-7902. We'll get you need
to go!
On
Saturday November 16th from 12 PM - 2 PM at Jacob's Well Coffee House
in Old Hickory Village, we are pumped to have grass-roots conservative
darling State Representative Courtney Rogers coming to visit us!
So bring a friend, your appetite for good conversation and great coffee, and show up for a great time!
WHEN: Saturday November 16th 12 PM- 2 PM (so you can still get your political fix and visit the folks for Thanksgiving)
WHERE: Jacob's Well Coffee House (1053 Donelson Avenue, Old Hickory)
WHO: TN State Representative LTC (Retired) Courtney Rogers
WHAT: You, me, Courtney, all your questions, great coffee, in one place
See you there!
Stephen Clements
Caffeinated Conservatives
To
get to Jacob's Well, do NOT use your car GPS! It will get you lost!
Check out their web listing below and get your directions ahead of time. http://www.yelp.com/biz/jacobs-well-nashville
For more information on Courtney Rogers, visit her website: http://votecourtney.com/index.html
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I was pleasantly surprised to see an editorial in this morning's Tennessean that was critical of Obamacare and lamented the massive number of insurance plan cancellations occurring in Tennessee as a result of it. Why didn't the Tennessean foresee this and alert us to the fact the the President's pledge of, "if you like your plan, you can keep your plan," was a lie? This should not have been a surprise to anyone. Any rational person knew the President's promise could not be true. When minimum standards where were put in place requiring things not previously covered to be covered and abolishing annual and life-time caps, then all of those plans that did not meet the new requirements were going to be cancelled. Beyond that, premiums had to increase. The only way the plan can work is to have the premiums collected cover the cost of providing the service. If more people, many of them high risk, were to be included in the insurance pool, premiums had to increase. It is hard for me to have much sympathy for those who voted for President Obama and are now shocked to find they are going to be without insurance or have a massive premium increase.
Now, million of people are going to lose their insurance, and with a web site that doesn't work, come January 1, they will be uninsured. People who would have otherwise been covered are going to get sick and be in accidents and be without coverage. People will go bankrupt. People will die. Lives will be ruined. That is a fact. What can we do about it now? I don't see anything that can be done. Congress can't just mandate that insurance companies undo the cancellations. I am sure many good progressives will justify the damage done by Obamacare with the old adage, "if you are going to make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs." It is not the individuals they care about, they want a radical transformation of society.
This could have all been avoided with measured steps that reformed the current health system rather than a radical restructuring of the whole health care sector. When you ram a plan through without bipartisan support, when you bully and bribe to get a plan through Congress, when the media stops being critical and becomes propagandist cheerleaders, you may not get the best plan.
I am convinced that the problem with Obamacare is not just with the roll out but that it is flawed from the start. Obamacare should be scrapped and the Congress should start over.
Below are excerpts from today's Tennessean editorial: Obama's broken promise burns the insured.
The troubled rollout of health-plan enrollment under the Affordable Care Act hit home in Tennessee this week as it was learned that about 66,000 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee customers will not, in fact, be able to keep their current health insurance, as President Obama had promised.
While some may complain about the insurer, make no mistake: This one is on the president.
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Without a doubt, many otherwise skeptical Americans were won over to the Affordable Care Act by the fateful promises made to them by the president. Now they are being thrust into the Health Insurance Marketplace to join uninsured Americans who already are struggling to get enrolled in a system rife with glitches.
The Metro Council Agenda for Nov. 19th is now available at this link: Agenda. Check back and I will read if for you and tell you if their is anything of interest on the agenda.
Led by Will Pinkston, the School Board last night again struck another blow against charter schools. In 2014, new charter schools will only be allowed in area where overcrowding exist or in areas where the regular public school has been declared a failing school for the last three years. It seems that excellence in education is way down on the list of School Board priorities. In my view, the State needs to appoint a State Authorizer and take charter schools out of the hands of local school boards.
Here is The Tennessean's report: Metro school board limits '14 charter expansion to certain areas.
11/11/2013, The Huffington Post, Jason Linkins - When most people think about farm subsidies, chances are they do not immediately think "massive taxpayer money boondoggle that should be cut from the federal budget immediately." They've probably heard about how hard it is out there for small family farmers, doing honest work in the world, keeping everyone fed and maintaining our institutional repository of agricultural practices. Surely, these subsidies are helping to keep an important way of life alive for the True Sons of Soil and Toil ... like, say, multi-billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Wait. What? He's a farmer? (link)One of the things that continue to disgust me about Republicans is the hypocrisy of supporting agriculture central planning and welfare for farmers. Republican profess to believe in free markets and capitalism. Some in Congress are also feeding at the government trough, such as our own Congressman Stephen Fincher of the 8th Congressional District and tea party favorite Michelle Bachmann who has received a quarter million dollars in farm subsidies.
This ought to be shocking and unbelievable, but I am not surprised. "Never report it." "It never happened."
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