Impeachment hearings are no sham
For anyone who is objective, and that’s the key word here, these impeachment hearings simply can’t be reasonably considered a “’sham” of any sort. The damning charge made against… Read more »
Author Archives: Jack Bernard
Medicaid expansion: we should be “all in”
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Georgia is submitting a waiver to the Affordable Care Act; comments to the state are due by 12-3-19. However, instead of significantly expanding coverage to the half million uninsured… Read more »
The welfare state and socialism
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It is positive to have views from all sides expressed in opinion columns, but some anti-government Tea Party types seem to make up their own facts as they write. These… Read more »
No, Tucker, hate crimes are real
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“There aren’t that many hate crimes occurring in the country” -Tucker Carlson of Fox News (2-22-19) Empire is back on TV … but without my favorite actor on the… Read more »
Our imperfect republic
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“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”-Supreme Court Justice Louis D…. Read more »
What happened to a balanced budget?
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The reasons that I once became a Republican are many, mostly relating to the Dixiecrat (remember Lester Maddox and Herman Talmadge) flavor and corruption of the Democratic Party in… Read more »
Succeeding financially in America
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One of my relative’s in-laws grew up wealthy. She once told me that I was lucky to be able to retire so young at 55. Unsurprised by her cluelessness,… Read more »
Freeing up Henry County tax money
Henry County Commissioners recently approved the annual county budget. Buried in the depths of the budget was a $2.7 million increase in county employee health insurance premiums. This increase… Read more »
Misleading Henry taxpayers
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For the first two weeks of April, taxpayers in Henry County were busy doing their taxes. Many are angry that the promised cornucopia of tax benefits has not positively… Read more »
Medicare for all
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As an unpaid volunteer, I worked with over 100 Henry County small businesses, meeting in Henry County Chamber offices for mentoring purposes. I also ran a chamber in Georgia… Read more »