As we look at Washington from here in California, we are amazed to see a bait and switch being played. Voters clearly elected the new Congress to focus on jobs and the economy. However, just days into power, the top priority of the new House majority led by Speaker John Boehner has not been jobs but taking away women's health care. With the speaker calling it the "will of the people," they introduced a bill by Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey that could end private health insurance coverage for virtually all abortions, a benefit that the majority of private health insurance plans offer today. This bill will not create one job or fix the economy, and it will raise taxes on millions of Americans. Despite the speaker's words, this bill is clearly not the will of the people.
As we look at Washington from here in California, we are amazed to see a bait and switch being played. Voters clearly elected the new Congress to focus on jobs and the economy. However, just days into power, the top priority of the new House majority led by Speaker John Boehner has not been jobs but taking away women's health care. With the speaker calling it the "will of the people," they introduced a bill by Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey that could end private health insurance coverage for virtually all abortions, a benefit that the majority of private health insurance plans offer today. This bill will not create one job or fix the economy, and it will raise taxes on millions of Americans. Despite the speaker's words, this bill is clearly not the will of the people.
LOS ANGELES - Recent changes to the design of a proposed NFL stadium in downtown Los Angeles are a "bait and switch," says a former Los Angeles City official who negotiated the development of the Staples Center. Retired city official Greg Nelson said Anschutz Entertainment Group's decision to renege on plans for a retractable roof is likely a cost-cutting measure the company made at the city's expense.
When college tuition is $30,000 (plus shelter, sustenance and overpriced books), a scholarship is something to celebrate. Or is it? Students are finding out the hard way they've been snookered by some of the slickest of marketers, using one of the oldest of gimmicks: bait and switch. You know the game: Promise more than you can deliver, and deliver less than promised.
Maryland legislators entered this year's General Assembly session floating an increase in the alcohol tax primarily as a way to funnel money into programs to help the developmentally disabled, the mentally ill, substance abusers and other groups. But when the Democrat-controlled assembly passed a bill last week increasing the sales tax on alcohol from 6 percent to 9 percent, less than 20 percent of the tax increase's $87 million in projected first-year revenue was slated to go to such causes. Nearly all the remaining revenue will go to schools and school construction, leading some opponents to accuse legislators of pulling a bait-and- switch on those who needed the bill most.
LEWISTON -- David Moyse, the general manager and executive chef of Fishbones, is no fish fool. For almost five years, Moyse has bought and cooked fish for the downtown restaurant. And he makes sure Fishbones' fish -- from haddock and salmon to tuna and cod -- are all the genuine article.
The Taxation Committee this week passed a proposed package of changes to the states tax system. Before lawmakers delve into debating the details of the plan and a competing one from Democrats a fundamental question must be answered. Can the state afford the changes? Arguments will be made that taxes are money that belongs to Maine citizens and that the more they can keep in their pocket, the better. In isolation, this makes sense. But Maine residents expect a lot of services, and they expect them to be provided to a small population spread over a big geographic area, which is expensive.
VIRGINIA'S Lottery receipts are supposed to boost funding for schools. Instead, the annual $450 million goes everywhere but. A quarter-century ago, Virginians approved a state lottery on the implicit promise that the money would be added to school coffers. For a while, lawmakers did that. But, as The Pilot's Elisabeth Hulette recounted recently, the economy worsened and Richmond started diverting the money to other uses.
Taking place over the course of an afternoon, Hard Candy tells the story of Jeff, a suavely metrosexual, 30-ish photographer and Hayley, a much-too-bright 14-year-old who wears a pageboy haircut and a little red riding hoodie. For weeks they'd been flirting online, with the oh-so-subtle handles Thonggirl14 and Lensman319, with sexual innuendo mixed in with chat about Zadie Smith and the latest bands. In an excellent opening scene, the two finally meet for a date at a Los Angles coffee house. Jeff ([Patrick Wilson]) is a well-groomed creative professional, easy in his manner and twinkly-eyed behind his designer frames. Hayley (Ellen Page) is a boyish girl who reads big books and talks like an adult. While Page and Wilson play the scene with a mixture of bravado and nerves, [David Slade]'...
Were it possible to find "master minds" so unselfish, so willing to decide unhesitatingly against their own personal interests or private prejudices, men almost godlike in their ability to hold the scales of justice with an even hand, such a government might be to the interests of the country; but there are none such on our political horizon, and we cannot expect a complete reversal of all the teachings of history. Who campaigned for a "drastic" reduction of 25 percent in federal spending, a balanced federal budget, a rollback of government intrusion into agriculture, and restoration of a sound gold currency?
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