Quoted: Neil Barofsky is the man who tracks the historic bailout known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. The 39-year-old special inspector general monitors a dozen separate bailout-related programs that now account for nearly $3 trillion in financial commitments.

Quoted: Europeans don’t get why Americans don’t agree that universal health coverage is a fundamental right. I don’t think the debate is about health.

hm...

Quoted: California may be the eighth largest economy in the world, but its state staff are being paid in IOUs, unemployment is at its highest in 70 years, and teachers are on hunger strike. So what has gone so…

Quoted: The United States needs a revival of economic self-restraint to restore its financial values and make it a producer economy again, not a consumer economy.

Quoted: "I have a crazy idea": Those five words changed a simple meeting of school officials into the realization of Kim Ursetta's dream.

excellent

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Quoted: Health policy experts agree that any reform in our health care system must include a well-educated, caring primary care doctor who is able to manage the health of his or her patients with an eye to using resources optimally to keep costs down.

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