My Book: http://amzn.to/dt72c7 Blog: http://egbertowillies.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/egbertowillies I have always had health insurance. When I formed my own company I had to purchase insurance at full price on the open market. Every year the price increased dramatically. Subsequently my wife developed Lupus. About 5 years ago my total health insurance bill with deductible was costing […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, September 22, 2010 BREAKING: Influential Texas Farm Bureau to remain neutral in governor’s race Perry’s corrupt land grab, betrayal of private property interests catch up to him HOUSTON — The influential Texas Farm Bureau Friends of Agriculture Fund today voted to remain neutral in the governor’s race for the first time […]

I surprised a lot of friends when I publicly endorsed Bill White. After all, I don’t endorse a lot of candidates — the notable exceptions being my late husband, Senator Lloyd Bentsen, and our nephew, Representative Ken Bentsen. But Bill White’s in a league of his own. Having known him and his wife Andrea for […]

We’re six weeks out from the November 2nd elections — and the President is fired up. Thousands of you have already answered the President’s call to donate, volunteer, and commit to vote — but it’s going to take all of us to stay aggressive over the next six weeks. And, as the President said, the […]

Why There’s an Enthusiasm Gap? Don’t Blame The President, Blame Ourselves. I agree with Robert Reich that it would have been great for the President to have stated the 7 facts in his article after the grossly rich hedge-fund manager complained that Wall Street executives “feel like we’ve been whacked with a stick” by the […]

Geithner,Summers, & now Lew. How can business leaders continue to claim that President Obama is an anti-business president. President Obama has bent over backward in fact at the expense of the middleclass to ensure that the financial and corporate sectors were stabilized securing the supremacy of our style of corrupt capitalism. It is sad that […]

The following article in the New York times while it reveals what is happening (something older workers have been aware of for year) does a disservice to the reader in not exploring the policies that are causal. It is negligent that the healthcare issue was just barely eluded to. Older workers will not be hired […]

Texas needs a change. Texas governor Rick Perry has played politics with policies that have material impact on real middle class Texan’s lives. As a Texan with a wife with a pre-existing condition, I was appalled that he refused the the Healthcare Reform funds for the high risk healthcare pool. He refused the stimulus fund […]

I received this positive email Obama narrative from my mother a few minutes ago. It is the first positive Obama email I’ve received in a while. I decided to find the original blog entry and repost, references Frank Schaeffer’s blog site. This narrative is a bit dated in that more legislation positive to the middleclass […]

  When Republicans attack health care reform, Democrats like to counter by accusing Republicans of wanting to repeal a law that requires insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions. According to Republican Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, that’s exactly right. People with pre-existing conditions, he explains are like houses that have already burned down. "It […]