The results from a new Wall Street Journal/NBC news poll should should be encouraging to many people, including myself, who were wondering when President Obama would start to be accountable (from a polling perspective) for the unpopular policies that the administration has endorsed and strongly advocated...
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John Hanlon
on 06-18-2009
Filed under: spending, deficit, wall street journal, polls
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...
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Despina Karras
on 06-14-2009
Filed under: wasteful spending, capitalism, stimulus, job losses, tax issues, spending, government, deficit, billions
In New Mexico yesterday, President Obama spoke about the issue of massive governmental spending. According to a Bloomberg News article , “President Barack Obama , calling current deficit spending 'unsustainable,' warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues...
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John Hanlon
on 05-15-2009
Filed under: health care, spending, deficit, billions
Four dimes, a nickel and a penny. That is how much the government is going to be borrowing for every dollar it is spending this year, according to new estimates . In the battle over federal spending, conservatives oftentimes have an admittedly hard time portraying how much taxpayer money in real dollars...
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John Hanlon
on 05-13-2009
Filed under: congress, spending, trillion, deficit, million, billion