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Rates Could Jump As High As 85%, 750,000 Expected To Enroll In Medicaid As he helped President Barack Obama ram his $2.5 trillion healthcare bill into law last year, liberal U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) claimed the massive overhaul would lower health care costs for Ohioans. Remember this? Brown: “Too Many Ohioans Are Paying More In Premiums Each Month For Insurance Policies That Cover Less Health Care. This Will End With Today’s Announcement And The Passage Of Health Reform.” (Senator Sherrod Brown, “Sen. Brown Announces More Than $1 Million To Help Crack Down On Unreasonable Health Insurance Premium Hikes In Ohio,” Press Release, 8/16/10) But instead, the Ohio Department of Insurance now reports that Ohioans’ health insurance premiums for individual plans are expected to skyrocket by between 55 and 85 percent in 2014. Additionally, the report predicts that nearly 750,000 Ohioans will become new enrollees in Medicaid – intended for…

In 2009, Senator Brown joined President Obama in passing a $825 billion “stimulus” that failed to create the promised jobs.  In 2010, Brown joined President Obama in passing a $2.5 trillion government health care bill that mandates every American to buy a health care plan.  Two weeks ago President Obama proposed yet another $400 billion in new “stimulus” spending and again Brown was there supporting the President’s failed economic agenda. SHERROD BROWN: “The President outlined a plan that will create and protect jobs and ensure that Ohio workers take home more of their pay. There are no excuses for inaction, as all components of his plan have had bipartisan support and will not add to the deficit.” (Sen. Brown, Press Release, 9/8/11) And today, President Obama proposed the largest tax hike in U.S. history –a $1.5 trillion tax increase on investors and small businesses that he says is needed to…

For The 3rd Straight Month Ohio’s Unemployment Rate Has Gone Up And Is Now At 9.1% Earlier today, the Department of Labor reported that Ohio’s unemployment rate has risen from 9.0 to 9.1 percent and there are now 536,000 unemployed Ohioans.  This is the third straight month Ohio’s unemployment rate has gone up. As the Associated Press reports: Ohio matched the U.S. unemployment rate in August as joblessness rose in the state for the third month in a row, officials said Friday. Unemployment edged up in Ohio to 9.1 percent last month, from 9.0 percent in July, the Department of Job and Family Services said. The U.S. Department of Labor reported that the nation’s jobless rate held at 9.1 percent during August. … Last month, 536,000 workers were unemployed in Ohio, up from 529,000 in July, officials said.  “Today’s jobs report is just another painful reminder of the failed economic…

Claimed First $787 Billion Stimulus Would ‘Create or Save’ 133,000 Ohio Jobs As President Barack Obama travels to Columbus to sell yet another round of costly deficit “stimulus” spending Ohioans are reminded that it wasn’t too long ago since liberal United States Senator Sherrod Brown helped rubberstamp Obama’s failed $787 billion stimulus in law. Brown who’s been a partisan lap dog for Obama’s failed economic policies proudly proclaimed that the first stimulus sent millions of dollars towards rebuilding Ohio’s aging buildings and promised that the legislation would ‘create or save’ 133,000 Ohio jobs. Since the stimulus has passed the Buckeye State has lost over 87,000 jobs and once again Obama and Brown are claiming that our country needs to spend more money in order to get Ohio’s economy working again. “Barack Obama and Sherrod Brown’s first round of costly ‘stimulus’ spending failed to create the 133,000 Ohio jobs they promised…

Will Loyal Obama Ally Again Support Tax-Spend-And-Borrow Agenda? As President Barack Obama prepares to call tonight, in a nationwide address, for a reported $400 billion in new “stimulus” spending – to be paid for later with new debt and job-killing tax hikes – where does his loyal ally, Senator Sherrod Brown, stand? Notably, Ohioans have heard this same jobs rhetoric from Obama and Brown for the last several years.  Exactly a year ago, Obama promised a “plan that would start putting Americans to work right away.” And as he helped Obama and his Washington party bosses ram their $787 billion spending binge into law, Brown claimed it would create 122,000 Ohio jobs, and his bosses in the Obama Administration claimed it would hold unemployment below 8 percent. But in reality, the United States has lost 2.4 million jobs since Obama took office, and the country is now in its 31st…

As President Obama plans to deliver yet another “major speech” on the economy in an effort to jumpstart the worst approval ratings of his Presidency, the White House is signaling that he will call for another round of borrowed “stimulus” funding.  And as ABC News reports this morning, “[m]any Democrats say they want to hear a forceful presidential push for new stimulus spending and middle-class tax cuts, with less emphasis on deficit reduction and government spending cuts they say could stunt job creation and hamper economic recovery. The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) today called on Senator Sherrod Brown to step forward and make clear whether or not he agrees with President Obama and fellow liberal Democrats that more government spending is needed to jumpstart the economy. “Given Senator Sherrod Brown’s strong support for the Obama agenda and his past failed stimulus policies, Ohioans deserve to know if he intends…

Congressional Budget Office Predicts $1.3T Deficit in 2011, Third Largest in 65 Years As a candidate for the Senate in 2006, Sherrod Brown regularly railed against deficit spending by the federal government and promised to lead the fight in Washington to balance the federal budget. In fact, at one Senate debate in 2006, Brown said the following: CLICK THE SCREENSHOT TO WATCH SHERROD BROWN   “I Stood Up To A President Of My Own Party, Not Just In Opposition To The North American Free Trade Agreement, But Also In Support Of The Balanced Budget Amendment, In Restoring Fiscal Sanity To Our Government. … Mike DeWine And Others Have Betrayed The Conservative Principals Of Limited Government.  I Want To Go To The Senate And Work With Senator Voinovich On Sound Tax Policies That Benefits The Middle Class Without Burying Our Grandchildren In Debt.”  (Senator Sherrod Brown, Debate, 10/1/06)   Yet, as…

Dangerous Déjà Vu In 30th Consecutive Month Of 8%+ Unemployment As he helped President Barack Obama ram the $787 billion stimulus into law, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown claimed it would create jobs and help get our economy back on track, while his friends in the Obama Administration projected the spending binge would hold unemployment below 8 percent. But instead, our country has lost 2.4 million jobs since President Obama came into office, while unemployment stands at 9.1 percent and has been above 8 percent for 30 consecutive months.  And today, Bloomberg reports that jobless claims continue to rise: More Americans than forecast filed applications for unemployment benefits last week, signaling the labor market is struggling two years into the economic recovery. Jobless claims climbed by 9,000 to 408,000 in the week ended Aug. 13, the highest in a month, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg…

In 2009 Sherrod Brown voted for President Barack Obama’s government-run healthcare bill that raised taxes by $500 billion, cut $500 billion from Medicare and forced every American to purchase health insurance. Fortunately the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals – which was comprised of two judges who were nominated by President Bill Clinton and one judge who was nominated by President George H.W. Bush – ruled that the health care reform law’s requirement that nearly all Americans buy insurance is unconstitutional. As the Washington Examiner reports: “A federal appeals court has ruled that the national health care law’s individual mandate is unconstitutional, calling it “an unprecedented exercise of congressional power.” The 11th Circuit, which was hearing the case brought by 26 states led by Florida and the National Federation of Independent Business concluded: that the individual mandate contained in the Act exceeds Congress’s enumerated commerce power.” “Despite his continued attempts to…

Will Brown Back Second Stimulus After Rubber-Stamping First $787 Billion Debacle? As he helped ram President Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus into law, Democrat U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown promised it would create millions of new jobs and his friends in the Obama Administration projected the deficit-spending spree would hold unemployment below 8 percent. But instead, our country has lost 2.4 million jobs since President Obama came into office and is now in its 30th consecutive month with higher-than-8-percent unemployment – while our national debt has skyrocketed to $14.5 trillion. So where does Sherrod Brown stand now, as Obama calls for Ohioans to foot the bill for yet another round of costly “stimulus” spending in Washington? As Fox News reports: In his weekly address on Saturday, President Barack Obama called for Congress to approve more money for a new—and vaguely defined—program to repair roads, bridges and airports as a means of…