As I wrote yesterday, in this Labor Day weekend almost 15 million Americans are jobless. Today, in his weekly radio and Internet address President Obama announced a series of what he called “common-sense steps to save for retirement.” There is something here which does not have much common-sense, specially if you are one of those jobless persons. Read the rest of this entry »

President-elect Obama has a full plate. That nobody can doubt. In a few weeks the inauguration will take place and all the good and bad news will be his responsibility. Personally, I hope he follows what he promised during the campaign about making health insurance one of the priorities of his administration. I am even hoping he goes a little further than his promises and helps create universal health care. Read the rest of this entry »

We are on the last weeks of the Bush’s presidency and even if most of us don’t think that much of him, we cannot put blinkers on and think that Obama is going to arrive at the White House with a list of things to do like the one followings and be able to check all of them and solve all the unfinished problems the country has. Read the rest of this entry »

As I wrote in the update, things are not improving too much in the economic side and it is not just in the US but globally. One of the shocking things I read in the New York Times yesterday was an article about the number of people who are having to choose between buying food, medication or gas. Read the rest of this entry »

It is inevitable that with campaigns that last this long more unexpected occurrences happen. I have always thought that there were several things one should change in the way American Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday evening, Thursday April 24th at 8 p.m. French time, Nicolas Sarkozy, the now beset French president gave a 90 minute TV interview direct from the Elysée, the presidential palace. With this appearance, on the anniversary of the first year in power, the government hopes to get back some of the public support. According to polls the majority of French people think his first year in office has been a failure and a great number are dissatisfied and confused over the supposed reforms his government has proposed. Most of the hardest reforms, such as general pensions and health care, remain to be made and the economic downturn leaves little room for maneuver. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday I wrote about the health care plans of the three candidates and the day before about the different way of how some of their overstatements were reported by the media. Today I am going to mix both topics, prompted by another article from Paul Krugman “Health Care Horror Stories” that appeared in Friday’s New York Times. Read the rest of this entry »