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
Former Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao had an important piece in the Wall Street Journal recently about the lack of transparency of union leaders on the issue of how they spend union dues. She wrote that “Fifty years ago, Congress passed the landmark Landrum-Griffin Act to protect rank-and-file...
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John Hanlon
on 05-12-2009
Filed under: stimulus, spending, funding, unions, government, EPFA