google.com - 1/20/2009
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Much in Obama stimulus bill won't hit economy soon By ANDREW TAYLOR 4 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) It will take years before an infrastructure spending program proposed by President-elect Barack Obama will boost the economy, according to congressional economists. The findings, released to ...
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With countless news stories, papers, editorials and experts
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enact the Pelosi-Reid-Obama Debt Plan, we thought it would be helpful to give you a short index of why spending does not equal ...
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Stimulus 101: The Pelosi-Reid-Obama Debt Plan
cnsnews.com - 1/26/2009
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(CNSNews.com) - The Obama White House on Monday
backed away from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi s support...
for increased federal funding of contraception in the $825-billion stimulus bill now under consideration by Congress. That was not President Obama s ...
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Backing Away from Pelosi, White House Says Birth ...
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Jonathan Garthwaite: Why Obama's stimulus is a big bad idea
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
It will take years to have any effect . Overall, only $26 billion out of $274 billion in infrastructure spending would be delivered into the economy by the Sept. 30 end of the budget year, just 7 percent. Just one in seven dollars of a huge $18.5 billion investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy programs would be spent within a year and a half. And other pieces, such as efforts to bring broadband Internet service to rural and underserved areas won't get started in earnest for years, while just one-fourth of clean drinking water projects can be completed by October of ...
…and What To Fear
PoliGazette —
... desire to oversee dramatic changes in attempts to stem economic slide as well as in U.S. foreign policy. Economically, President Obama is already at risk of seeing his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package hijacked by the same gamers like Rep. Barney Frank that created social policy mandates that caused the collapse in the housing market in the first place. A stimulus package larded up with temporary make-work jobs and partisan policy gifts to Congressional Democrats will not only fail to stimulate the economy, it will expose as a fraud President Obama’s commitment to ...
Those darn lags
SCSUScholars —
According to Congressional economists, the effects of the Obamaspendorama would not reach the economy "until it's already on the mend." ...
And now, back to our regularly scheduled spending orgy
Michelle Malkin —
... Congressional Budget Office crunched the numbers and concluded that a huge bulk of the federal spending orgy wouldn’t actually kick in until the recession is waning – if not already over. The CBO analysis showed that “less than half of the $30 billion in highway construction funds detailed by House Democrats would be released into the economy over the next four years” and “less than $4 billion in highway construction money would reach the economy by September 2010,” according to the Associated Press . And those are generous time estimates given the reality of molasses-slow ...
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