The nation’s big health insurers say they expect premiums — or the cost for insurance coverage — to rise from 20 to 100 percent for millions of people due to changes that will occur when key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (better known as Obamacare) roll out in January 2014.Insurers warn of Obamacare-induced sticker shock
Obama White House pays women less than men, records showFemale employees in the Obama White House make considerably less than their male colleagues, records show.
According to the 2011 annual report on White House staff, female employees earned a median annual salary of $60,000, which was about 18 percent less than the median salary for male employees ($71,000).
Calculating the median salary for each gender required some assumptions to be made based on the employee names. When unclear, every effort was taken to determine the appropriate gender.
But there is some irony here.SPENCER: Obama is no friend to oil workers - delcotimes.com
At their union headquarters in Marcus Hook there are quite a few “Obama-Biden” campaign signs. When it comes to doing the bidding of big labor, the Obama Administration can generally be counted upon. But this administration has been no friend at all to the oil business or the people who labor in it.
It has made its fondness for “clean” and “renewable” energies well-known. It has poured billions of taxpayer dollars into politically connected green-energy companies that have failed rather spectacularly. This administration’s disdain for carbon-based fuels is just as well known.
So it was almost comical that in response to the announced refinery closures, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey would ask Energy Secretary Steven Chu to get “personally involved in the issue of reductions in Northeast refining activity.”
Ridiculous because Chu is on record advocating not only higher gasoline prices, but much higher gasoline prices; prices at the levels of Europe, which today are over $10 a gallon in some countries. Chu understands well that it is only if U.S. gas prices get (and stay) crazy high will the nation’s move to a “green” economy become more feasible.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration says the average U.S. household purchases 1,100 gallons of gasoline per year. That means the $2 per gallon increase since Obama took office is costing the average family an extra $2,200 a year.Read the full column, Obama's unaffordable energy policy, here.
