On Tuesday evening, the Eastern Hills Tea Party gathered at the Madeira City Hall to hold one of their periodic meetings and to discuss the national debt.  Just prior to 7pm, between thirty and forty people gathered outside the main meeting room looking through tea-party literature and eating some cake to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the founding of the Cincinnati Tea Party.  As seven-o-clock came around, citizens were ushered into the main chamber in order to hear from the night’s featured speaker, former Republican member of Cincinnati City Council and former Hamilton County Commissioner, Phil Heimlich.

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In my previous article I had a graph showing the trend in the 0.5-cent sales tax collected for the stadium fund along with the national trends in personal consumption, both goods and services.  One commenter, Bearman, asked why national data for sales tax weren’t included.  A good question, and the result only reinforces the conclusion that Hamilton County’s economy is ailing.

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Not only did Obama do a secret deal to protect the drug companies’ profits, he also did a secret deal with the hospital lobby. “Even while President Obama was saying that he thought a public option was a good idea and encouraging supporters to believe his healthcare plan would include one, he had promised for-profit hospital lobbyists that there would be no public option in the final bill.”

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