Last week it was revealed tha t $120,000 in federal stimulus money, originally intended to help clean up Ononadaga Lake in Central New York and rebuild local infrastructure, would actually be used to pay for the printing of a pamphlet about the lake cleanup -- and the pamphlet wasn't going to be...
The Obama Administration had announced before unveiling the stimulus package that it would have to be "targeted, timely, and temporary." Last week I wrote about the Heritage Foundation's analysis of the stimulus money failing in these items, this week the USA Today confirms this view. Today...
Remember when the Obama Administration said while pushing for the stimulus bill to be passed that it would be timely and targeted? The Heritage Foundation has been tracking the claims and has found that the bill is neither. As this chart provided by Heritage shows, the spending of the billions in the...
Climate change solver or economy killer - these are the two sides to the debate on a cap-and-trade system. While it might be easy for many to get on board with reducing emissions, swallowing the costs of doing so is a different story. While the latest version of the bill eliminates permit auctions and...
When the stimulus bill was being crafted, many Conservatives said that a proposed bill should be "timely, targeted, and temporary." Instead, we had a bill passed that was not an emergency economic rescue as some have claimed, that was not only targeted towards the people that need help, and...
It’s A Stimulus Stupid! Part Two! Last week when I left all you wonderful viewers we were talking about the alternative minimum tax increase found in the American Recover and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Now it is our duty to move on and uncover more of the nonsense that was passed off as “stimulating...
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Yesterday, President Obama urged Congress to pass credit-card reform legislation by Memorial Day. In his weekly address, he stated , "There is no time for delay...We need a durable and successful flow of credit in our economy, but we can't tolerate profits that depend upon misleading working...
Good morning, and happy mother's day to all! Here are today's conservative articles and blog posts from around the web. Moira Herbst of BusinessWeek offers input on signs that could indicate an economic recovery has begun. Alfred Tella reports on a discrepancy in recorded job loss numbers and...
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