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Obama’s Economic Plans Have Come A Cropper

I’m sure the Obama economic team headed up by “Turbo Tax” Tim Geithner is wishing for those heady days of last spring when the world was their oyster and they were the pearl of Washington. The passage of the $787 billion stimulus bill...

Published 09-29-2009 12:01 AM by Rick Moran

Filed under: bailouts, TARP, obama administration

Relax, Congress won’t bail out newspapers

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Earlier this week, a good friend of mine was apoplectic about news that President Obama supported a kind of bailout for the newspaper industry. I had no such outrage. After all, no such thing will happen...

Published 09-25-2009 12:01 AM by T. J. Brown

Filed under: bailouts, media, obama

WILL: A Ploy to Clip Some Wings

WASHINGTON -- How does the Obama administration love organized labor? Let us count the ways it uses power to repay unions for helping to put it in power. It has given the United Auto Workers majority ownership of Chrysler. It has sent $135 billion of...

Published 07-16-2009 12:05 AM by George F. Will

Filed under: bailouts, unions

Obama's Stimulus Failure

Obama has clearly started to realize that public support for his stimulus package is waning. He’s begun defending it more vigorously than ever. In the Washington Post, Obama even took to writing an essay to let us know exactly why the stimulus package...

Published 07-13-2009 10:47 AM by Cassy Fiano

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, bailouts, government spending

Once, Twice, Three Times a Failure

Ever watch a really good illusionist? They are the masters of misdirection and succeed by getting you looking the direction they need you to look, in order to disguise the trick. The best illusionist can honestly make you believe what they are doing is...

Published 07-13-2009 10:36 AM by Duane Lester

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, wasteful spending, bailouts

A Second Stimulus? No Way. Cancel the First One.

Back in February, President Obama signed his stimulus bill into law. At the time, he declared that the $787 billion boondoggle was absolutely necessary to prevent the U.S. economy from going over the edge and into the abyss and becoming a catastrophe...

Published 07-10-2009 12:05 AM by Kim Priestap

Filed under: unemployment, stimulus, wasteful spending, bailouts

Obama's Wrecking Ball Policies

Leave it to Joe Biden to inadvertently tell the truth about just what is going on with the Obama administration. He gave an interview with "ABC This Week". You’ll remember that ABC is the channel that sponsored the Obamacare infomercial...

Published 07-07-2009 12:05 AM by Cassy Fiano

Filed under: wasteful spenging, bailouts, cap and trade, economic recovery, biden, government spending

The Road Paved with Political Intentions

Imagine if Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package hadn't been forced through Congress. According to President Obama, the stimulus created or saved 150,000 jobs. Funny, it doesn't seem to be helping much though, considering unemployment...

Published 06-08-2009 12:06 AM by Cassy Fiano

Filed under: stimulus, chrysler, bailouts, unions, debt, economic recovery

The Biggest American Business

Pandering politicians found a perfect punching bag in Corporate America over the past few years, but particularly so in the past few months of the recession. With rising unemployment rates, Americans wanted someone to blame and who better than CEOs making...

Published 05-14-2009 12:03 AM by Lorie Byrd

Filed under: unemployment, economy, bailouts, entitlements

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