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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Alexa Shrugged
on 06-29-2009
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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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Despina Karras
on 06-28-2009
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The Obama Administration had announced before unveiling the stimulus package that it would have to be "targeted, timely, and temporary." Last week I wrote about the Heritage Foundation's analysis of the stimulus money failing in these items, this week the USA Today confirms this view. Today...
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Alexa Shrugged
on 06-01-2009
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President Obama’s prediction of 3.5 million jobs arising out of the stimulus bill is starting to unravel, as was inevitable. Christina Romer, chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told C-SPAN yesterday that we won’t see positive job growth until 2010. This follows April’s...
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Eric Fehrnstrom
on 05-11-2009
Filed under: wasteful spending, budget, taxes, stimulus, unemployment, jobs