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...
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Matt Margolis
on 06-03-2009
Filed under: wasteful spending, economy, government spending, economic recovery, transparency
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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AIP Admin
on 05-12-2009
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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...
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Despina Karras
on 05-10-2009
Filed under: economy, capitalism, free market, business concerns, economic recovery, economic crisis, regulation, credit card reform