1st Class Notes

We discussed "Cash for Clunkers" -- I had a post from Newt Gingrich which said the 1st 250,000 cars (the planned amount) sold in 4 days.

This plan was supposed to make us "greener"; it increased the sale of new cars (at least briefly).

Much of our class was spent discussing the House Health Care bill. It is being claimed by its proponents that it will be "budget neutral". But it will increase taxes, increase government spending (up to 1 Trillion dollars over 10 years), and definitely lead to rationing. And regardless of what they claim, the Government doesn't compete on a level playing field.

We also passed out Gingrich's "Grading the Big Speech: A 10-point Citizens' Cheecklist on Health Reform" for students to use if they watched Wednesday evening's Health Care talk by the President (to a Joint Session of Congress).