Obama cites Social Security, Medicare in final push for health care overhaul
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama says Congress should ignore the politics around his health care overhaul and remember that the unpopular proposals that created Medicare and Social Security passed with lawmakers’ courage.
Obama on Friday made a final push for legislation that Congress was set to vote on during a high-profile Sunday session. Obama says the health proposal is similar to Social Security and Medicare, which were widely criticized when they were debated but ultimately passed.
Obama says those programs lifted millions of Americans out of poverty and let older citizens enjoy their senior years. He says Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and Harry Truman knew they were the right moves. He also says the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy knew health care was right and fought for it for decades.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-obama-history,0,1191695.story
2009 Los Angeles Auto Show
If the North American auto show season has an official kickoff party, the Los Angeles Auto Show is it. In addition to world debuts of the 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe, 2011 Toyota Sienna and VW Up! Lite Concept, the 2009 LA Auto Show again played host to the Green Car of the Year announcement, which went to a diesel car for the second year in a row. The LA Auto Show is also a first chance to see and touch the cars unveiled around the world in the eight months since the New York Auto Show, which this year included jaw-droppers like the 2011 Lexus LFA and 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG.
