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...
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
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
Filed under: senate, congress, wasteful spending, economy, budget, treasury, pork, stimulus package, government spending, taxes, stimulus, economic recovery, economic crisis, spending, education, taxpayers