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Is it about boosting the economy or boosting Democratic interest groups?
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Obamanomics (when "stimulus" is just more debt)
QandO —
... Stimulus Aid". The essence of the story: In one of the first internal struggles of the incoming Obama administration, environmentalists and smart-growth advocates are trying to shift the priorities of the economic stimulus plan that will be introduced in Congress next month away from allocating tens of billions of dollars to highways, bridges and other traditional infrastructure spending to more projects that create "green-collar" jobs.James Pethokoukis summarizes the problem facing Obama: On one side you have the greenies ...
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Obama’s Totally Political Economic Stimulus….
Instapundit —
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Obama’s Totally Political Economic Stimulus.
"Never waste a crisis"
SCSUScholars —
James Pethokoukis points out something important about stimulus packages: On one side you have the greenies who want to use our current economic crisis to promote their environmental agenda. And on the other side you have the "old economy," union-types who want to use our current economic crisis to attract hundreds of billions of dollars to union construction jobs. (And don't forget the local government officials with visions of bike paths and aquariums and duck ponds dancing in their heads.) He quotes Rahm Emanuel saying that a crisis should ...
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