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Prez-Elect Makes New Pitch, Promises on Job Creation -- Including 600,000 New Government Employees
Prez-Elect Makes New Pitch, Promises on Job Creation -- Including 600,000 New Government Employees
In his radio address today, President-elect Obama uses some new language when discussing what he wants the stimulus package to achieve in terms of jobs. First off, he has a name for the package -- the "American Recovery and Reinvestment...
Obama Makes New Pitch for Stimulus
Obama Makes New Pitch for Stimulus
online.wsj.com — Obama intensified his case for hundreds of billions of dollars of tax cuts and new government spending,... warning that without action the economic slide could become "dramatically worse." (more) Obama Makes New Pitch for Stimulus
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Does Obama Want To Create 600,000 New Government Jobs?
Ace of Spades HQ — Does Obama Want To Create 600,000 New Government Jobs? If you do the math, it seems like it. The president-elect says he wants to "create three million new jobs" -- this is a change from a few weeks ago, when he said he wanted the plan to create OR SAVE two million jobs. He says the "No. 1 goal of my plan ... is to create three million new jobs, more than 80 percent of them in the private sector.” If you do the math: 20 percent of three million means 600,000 new government employees. Am I the only one who read that and ...

Hope and Change!
Sound Politics — ... (the Blagojevich meltdown being inescapable given the Illinois connection). As of now it's probably fair to conclude the damage to Obama is minimal, especially in the midst of MSM adoration of the One's pending coronation inauguration. Yet, it's probably equally fair to speculate that one more major story about ethical problems around an incoming Obama administration will start to create a not so positive theme. Exit topic: is the Hope and Change we were waiting for include 600,000 new federal employees or studied silence of Israel's necessary incursion into Gaza? Bloating ...

NOTHING SAYS “BUILD AN INTERNATIONALLY COMPETITIVE ECONOMY” like 600,000 new government employees! …
Instapundit — NOTHING SAYS “BUILD AN INTERNATIONALLY COMPETITIVE ECONOMY” like 600,000 new government employees! Hope and Change! ...

Morning Links
The AgitatorObama promises 600,000 new federal employees. Amtrak police arrest man who says he was taking pictures for an Amtrak photo contest. Indiana Court of Appeals strikes down Internet sex sting convictions, finds that in order to be guilty of attempted sex with a minor, the victim must be an actual minor, not an undercover police officer. A solicitation charge against the man will stand. Connecticut judge drives drunk, drifts out of lane while in a construction zone, hits a parked police car, and unleashes barrage of racial insults ...

Random Morning Links
Hit & RunObama promises 600,000 new federal employees. Amtrak police arrest man who says he was taking pictures for an Amtrak photo contest. Indiana Court of Appeals strikes down Internet sex sting convictions, finds that in order to be guilty of attempted sex with a minor, the victim must be an actual minor, not an undercover police officer. A solicitation charge against the man will stand. Connecticut judge drives drunk, drifts out of lane while in a construction zone, hits a parked police car, and unleashes barrage ...

Obama Plans Major Tax Cuts, Government Spending
PoliGazette — ... Although many Americans, including Republicans, will happily agree to cut taxes for the middle class, other aspects of Obama’s plan may be severely criticized by fiscal conservatives: he says he wants to create approximately ...

Obama’s latest jobs plan
QandO — ... Now he’s into addition again - now he’s going to create 3 million jobs - unfortunately, only 80% will be in the private sector. ...

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