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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... (tags: barack_obama economic_stimulus)
Generational Theft Bill - Barack Obama's Stimulus Package Is More Debt We Don't Need
As the Senate considers a massive $1.1 trillion stimulus bill, it is vital that the American ...
Murdock: Dont Let Nancy and Harry Steer the Ship of State
Articles on National Review Online —
... : [image] $88 million for a new polar icebreaker for the Coast Guard. [image] $400 million for NASA to research so-called global warming. [image] $400 million for the Social Security Administration s National Computer Center. An estimated 400 jobs will be created during the construction process, boasted House appropriators. Cost per job: $1 million. [image] The State Department s $524 million ...
The House and Senate stimulus bills
Sister Toldjah —
... Senator Coburn made a great argument last week against the massive stimulus spending that I missed. Make sure to check it out. ...
The market hates uncertainty and the President is sowing it
Doug Ross @ Journal —
... " (never mind that Carbon Dioxide represents only a tiny percentage of greenhouse gases and is necessary for plants and humans to survive. And never mind that the Earth has been cooling for the last ten years). • Obama's stimulus package is an ill-conceived grab bag of "shovel-ready" pork projects that roll back welfare reform, reward trade unions, pay off trial lawyers and provide a first step towards socialized medicine. In other words, it does everything but stimulate. It doesn't put money in people's pockets through tax cuts and it fails to deliver any coherent relief to ...
Paul Jenkins: The Republican Party's Death Wish
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... bunch born to do anything but lead. On what is clearly the most pressing issue of the time, the economy, top Republicans have neither followed, nor lead: not only did they get us into this spot, but they have absolutely no idea how to get us out of it. If there were one, just one, strong voice in the party to argue coherently against the stimulus package and government spending generally, perhaps the country would listen. But instead, there is a cacophony of absurd doomsday forecasts, trickle-down ...
GAO: Some states aren’t using all their stimulus cash to create jobs
Sister Toldjah —
... how the Obama administration got away with lying to the American people about how the stimulus plan was “earmark free” when in actuality there were billions of dollars in the bill for the states that had nothing to do with helping to create jobs.
Senator Tom Coburn, a fiscally responsible conservative Republican who has been hammering the Obama administration on the stimulus bill from the start, got it right several months ago:
One of the more ...
More Government Does Not Mean ‘Reform’
Pajamas Media —
The only thing life has taught us is that government programs are unsustainable and threats to our freedoms. [image] We live in interesting times. The America of 2020 will be radically different than the America of 1920. Just as Europeans attempt to liberalize their markets, we, in the United States, endeavor to (further) socialize ours. The Increase the Size of the Federocracy Plan — a.k.a. the stimulus — imperils our ability to ever get out of debt while cap and tax seeks to punish citizens as a means to atone for environmental variation. ...
