COFFEE BREAK 160

+ Updated at 3:30pm Tuesday, March 23, 2010

+ Shuck and Jive offers "A Church Without God" by John Shuck.  Like usual, John is provocative.  I just wrote two comments, numbers 6 and 7.  Not surprisingly, John liked my comments, numbers 8 and 9.

+ I am crying tears of Joy like when Obama won and when he was inaugurated as the Healthcare signing takes place. It's a New Day! Elections matter. 

Sadly, my Congressman, Mike Arcuri, who I once enthusiastically supported, is not part of the celebration and of history in the making.

+ Perspective is needed as we ponder the consequences of the new Healthcare laws. The Washington Post offers "How big is the bill, really?" by Ezra Klein. Excerpt: "The bill wouldn't really kick in until 2014. To get a more accurate annual figure, look at a year in which the bill is fully operational. In, say, 2016, the bill's spending will be about $160 billion (you can find these numbers on page 22 of the CBO report). According to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, total health-care spending that year will be about $3.7 trillion. In other words, the bill's spending is equivalent to about 4 percent of what we'll spend in health care in a year, and it will be covering 30 million people."