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There is likely to be no shortage of right-wing crowing over the CBO findings reported upon in notorious conservative rag the Washington Times. Specifically the bit about how, “President Obama’s economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he ...
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The Moonie Times and Right-Wing Blogs
Rising Hegemon — ... implementing the Senate legislation would ... increase employment [by the fourth quarter of 2010] by 1.3 million to 3.9 million jobs, as shown in Table 1. In that quarter, the unemployment rate would be 0.7 percentage points to 2.1 percentage points lower than the baseline forecast of 8.7 percent. The only reason there is a GDP decrease is...the TAX CUTS put in to get GOP votes. And as Decorous Contrarian (via Kyle Moore) at the Great Orange Satan points out: The agency projected the ...

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