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May 5th, 2008

Political Change for Mother’s Day!

I want This is what I asked for for Mother’s Day - hip political t-shirts at Momsrising.org’s new Zazzle store.

Momsrising.org is a bipartisan political action group made up of mothers fighting for Family’s rights. Mother’s rights are family rights. Women’s rights are human rights. Family rights are human rights.

Momsrising.org leads the way for women, stay-at-home-moms […]

By Tracee Sioux -- 2 comments

April 23rd, 2008

Healthcare Solves 3 GOP Concerns

It’s such a tight rope women walk in today’s world.

Republicans claim to want to reduce the abortion rate.

Republicans claim to think it’s wrong when women who work fulltime and “abandon their children in daycare.”

Republicans claim to hate “entitlement programs” that cost them tax money.

I have to wonder why, when facing a solution to 3 of […]

By Tracee Sioux -- 42 comments

March 12th, 2008

Stop Abortion Vote Healthcare!

Some fascinating statistics about abortion were released by the Guttmacher Institute late last year. The Guttmacher Institute, both pro-choicer and pro-lifer agree, is the most reliable source of statistical information regarding abortion.
I found the most interesting facts to be these two:
* The abortion rate is the lowest its been since Roe v. Wade in 1973, […]

By Tracee Sioux -- 53 comments

November 20th, 2007

Not Nameless Faceless Kids - Hers

I read this blog about a mother’s struggle to insure her special needs children - the real kind - in our current insurance system. Her child is being dropped because the insurance company isn’t making any money off insuring her.
Basically once they are in the hight risk pool, normal insurance will never cover them again, even […]

By Tracee Sioux -- 1 comment

September 28th, 2007

That Bush Girl

Some authors have to hustle to promote their books.  They struggle to get a book deal, sometimes they self-publish. They contact reporters and beg for reviews. I get contacted by these hard working artists trying to make a difference, write a story, people with something relevant to say.  
But, not Jenna Bush. The President’s daughter has […]

By Tracee Sioux -- 2 comments

September 27th, 2007

Liar McLiar

Did everyone see the Liar McLiar Lie (Karen Ignagni is the president of America’s Health Insurance Plans) on Oprah today?
 We {Insurance Companies} wouldn’t be here if we weren’t doing a great job,  She said.
Insurance companies are doing beyond a bad job - they are criminals profiting on American’s illness.
Elections a coming sister . . I plan to […]

By Tracee Sioux -- 2 comments

September 6th, 2007

France #1, America #37

In a July issue of Business Week there is a very enlightening analysis of France’s health care system. Journalist Kerry Capell investigated whether we might adapt to their system, which mixes private health coverage and public health coverage and leaves no one uninsured. And they do it for cheaper and with more health benefit than our […]

By Tracee Sioux -- 2 comments

August 6th, 2007

How To Survive on $50,000

I checked this book out of the library because I love its catchy title: How to Survive on $50,000 to $150,000 a Year by Stanley J. Cohen & Robert Wool, copyright 1984.
Here are some of my favorite excerpts:

Ten, fifteen years ago, when you looked ahead you thought that if you ever earned $60,000 say, or $90,000 with […]

By Tracee Sioux -- 1 comment