All Senator Harry Reid wants for Christmas is a massive health care reform bill.  Let’s hope he doesn’t get anything from his wish list this year.

The U.S. Senate has been working overtime and on weekends to push through legislation that will increase the government’s role in health care, expand Medicare and do little to control costs in our health care system. In fact, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) found that the Senate bill will increase national health care expenditures by $234 billion, or 0.7 percent, over the next decade.   That doesn’t sound like the kind of health care reform we need.

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There is a lot of talk in our nation’s capitol about job creation.  The President held a “jobs” summit last week.  It is clear that more needs to be done to create more jobs in the country – but if you think the answer to our economic woes will be solved by folks in Washington, DC, think again.

For all their talk of creating jobs, the Administration and Congress has done little for our small businesses – those who are actually in a position to create jobs.  More government spending doesn’t result in more jobs, just look at the so-called stimulus bill that was passed earlier this year.

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