Kudos to Klein ABC News’ Rick Klein for doing his job by pointing out how the Obama Administration is " Moving the Stimulus Goalposts ." Klein writes: Today brings this explanation, from Christina Romer, the chairman of the president’s Council on Economic Advisers: Stimulus spending...
"I think if you get into the way it was written, it's a huge tax and there's no sense calling it anything else. I mean, it is a tax ." So says Warren Buffett , Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and perhaps even more importantly, one of the President's biggest supporters in the economic...
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This week will mark four months since President Obama signed the stimulus bill into law. Four months later, unemployment has reached a 26 year-high, and only $44 billion of 'stimulus' money has been spent . Ironically, a recent Rasmussen poll shows that four months after passing the largest spending...
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...
We are starting to see just how Obama's White House original budget estimate were done with rose-colored glasses, as fellow AIP blogger Eric Fehrnstrom wrote last month . The White House has now revised their budget projections for this year... and they don't look good. The deficit for the current...
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...