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Several weeks ago, I wrote about a Rasmussen poll that showed how unpopular a new Obama stimulus plan is . In that piece, I linked to an NBC First Read article that stated that the phrase "second stimulus" was not being used by the White House to describe plans that were being developed to...
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As our leaders on Capitol Hill debate health care and the implications of Senator Baucus' health care reform bill, our nation's economy continues to suffer and some on Capitol Hill are discussing the jobs situation behind the scenes. NBC's First Read reported yesterday that "For the...
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Health care reform is vitally important for this country, President Barack Obama has repeatedly reminded the American people during his speeches on the subject. It is likely that he will reiterate that sense of urgency in his highly-anticipated address to Congress tomorrow evening. He will also likely...
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While campaigning, Obama declared himself to be a new kind of politician who would bring "change" to Washington, and talked the tough talk against lobbyists and their sinister influence. Well. those may have made fabulous soundbytes, but his actions since the election have hardly shown a commitment...
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Unlike our President and many of our representatives in Congress, I've tried to read the 1000+ page health care bill a few times this week. As a lawyer, I'm used to dealing with tedious and confusing legal jargon, yet this monolithic bill is still too hard for me to understand. It proposes drastic...
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07-22-2009
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Filed under: free market, stimulus package, stimulus, universal health care, Heritage Foundation, insurance, economics, federal government, health care benefits, health care tax, "the demands of this moment", health care reform, deadlines
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So. This morning, Drudge posted these links: • RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $2,531,600 FOR 'HAM, WATER ADDED, COOKED, FROZEN, SLICED, 2-LB'... • RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,191,200 FOR '2 POUND FROZEN HAM SLICED'... • RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,562,568 FOR 'MOZZARELLA...
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The unemployment rate in January of 2009 was 7.6 percent . President Obama was inaugurated late in that month and became the 44th President of the United States. In order to boost the economy, President Obama fought for and eventually signed a stimulus package in February of 2009. According to CNN.com...
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Every Monday I look into the money that Congress spent over the past week, and from time to time I look into the money the House of Representatives plans on appropriating for the future. Today, however, I wanted to look back at how some of the money already appropriated is being spent, once again highlighting...
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Unemployment is at the highest it's been in decades, the American people are hurting. Here comes President Obama's stimulus package to the rescue . . . with a $4 million project to add a bike and pedestrian path to a bridge? You read that correct, the Kansas City Star reports this planned project...
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On the heels of Vice-President Joe Biden declaring "everyone guessed wrong" on "Meet the Press" on June 14, he is back with more fantastical claims about the stimulus that insult the intelligence of viewers, especially conservatives who have been sounding the alarm from the beginning...
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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...
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"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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06-28-2009
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Filed under: energy, cap and trade, capitalism, free market, stimulus package, government spending, taxes, stimulus, job losses, tax issues, economic crisis, regulation, unemployment, green jobs, cap and tax, consumers, economics, environmentalists
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Recent polls about the Obama administration have begun to show a slow decline in the public support he is receiving. The decisions related to the automobile industry continue to be very unpopular but in some recent polls, Obama's approval rating has also declined at a modest rate. Additionally, in...
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Last night, the Jewish Policy Center hosted an excellent panel discussion on economics in Washington D.C. Talk radio host and bestselling author Michael Medved moderated the discussion that included Stephen Moore from the Wall Street Journal and economic experts Lacey Hunt and Douglas Holtz-Eakin. The...
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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...