Jobs, the economy and education were the three issues Gov. Mary Fallin focused on during her speech at the Wes Watkins Center on Wednesday. "(These issues) all tie together and are essential in moving Oklahoma forward to a more prosperous time," Fallin said. Fallin began by pointing to specific legislation passed this year, which supports her administration's, "pro-business agenda." "One of the top key issues we wanted to focus on was, how can we help businesses be able to keep more of their money?" Fallin said. Fallin cited a 0.25 percent cut to Oklahoma's income tax as one of the keys for the state having a prosperous economy. "We know that the states that are having the best job growth and have stronger economies," Fallin said, "are more than likely going to be the states that have taxes that are lower." Virginia, Colorado, North Carolina and Massachusetts were ranked in the top five states for business in 2010, according to a CNBC study. Oklahoma was ranked 25th. Each of these states has a higher income tax rate than Oklahoma, according to the Federation of Tax Administrators. MORE...

Listen to Sen Coburn's Town Hall Meeting From April 17, 2009 in Stillwater here.

Coburn's Unreality:

At Sen. Tom Coburn's recent town hall meeting in Stillwater, when asked the question so many Canadians ask, "Why don't Americans want what we have?", he promptly reeled off all the serious problems of Canadian health care. He said the outcomes are worse in Canada for multiple medical procedures compared to the U.S. He even claimed that healthcare in Canada is " rationed."

He cited the case of a woman with two medical conditions [breast cancer and a broken hip] who was forced to choose treatment for one at the expense of the other. Rationing of healthcare in Canada is laughable, a strange delusion, yet most of the gullible audience lapped it up without questioning it. When it was stated that Canadians live longer and infant mortality is better in Canada, he seemed to agree about infant mortality and blamed it on Medicaid, something that doesn't exist in Canada where the same quality of medical care is available to all regardless of wealth or poverty. In other words, medical health programs for the poor are peculiar to America and not found in other advanced nations where there is equal distribution of quality healthcare to all regardless of ability to pay or station in life. This doesn't mean it's free. It's paid for through taxation. MORE..

Conservatives vs Liberals--See How Red vs Blue Measures Up in Quality of Life Here.

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