blog.heritage.org - 2/11/2009
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Former US president George W. Bush (R) applauds as US President Barack Obama waves after being sworn in as the 44th US president at the Capitol in Washington on January 20, 2009“First of all, when I hear that from folks who presided over a doubling of the national debt, then, you know, I just ...
worldnetdaily.com - 2/15/2009
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worldnetdaily.com —
As the Obama administration pushes through Congress its
$800 billion deficit-spending economic stimulus plan, the American public...
is largely unaware that the true deficit of the federal government already is measured in trillions of dollars, and in ...
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Federal obligations exceed world GDP
washingtonindependent.com - 2/18/2009
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washingtonindependent.com —
new report out of the Treasury Department Tuesday
confirmed what many lawmakers, housing advocates, small businesses and...
individual consumers have known all along: That despite hundreds of billions of dollars flowing from Washington to the finance ...
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Treasury: Lending Down Among TARP Recipients
isgeorgebushpresident.com - 2/6/2009
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There’s Things We Have Left To Fuck Up
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... Just because the GOP fucked everything up doesn’t mean you shouldn’t listen to them when they tell you how to fix it. ...
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From NBC's Abby LivingstonEarlier today, we mentioned that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, one of the GOP's rising stars, would give the Republican response to Obama's address to Congress on Feb. 24. With a massive audience after the president’s ...
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