President Obama wanted transparency, he said. He wanted accountability also. Nearly eight hundred billion dollars being spent in a stimulus bill was a lot of money and Obama wanted to use it to stimulate the economy and create jobs. A CBS News article from February noted that "Mr. Obama said the...
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John Hanlon
on 08-31-2009
Filed under: wasteful spending, stimulus package, John Hanlon
Yesterday, in his weekly address, President Obama called on Americans to "summon the same spirit that inhabited Independence Hall two hundred and thirty-three years ago". This is one time when I can get behind President Obama's sentiments - although he may not like my reasons for it. What...
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Despina Karras
on 07-05-2009
Filed under: wasteful spending, cap and trade, capitalism, stimulus package, government spending, universal health care, socialized health care, public healthcare, economic crisis, government, cap and tax, government option, federal government, founding fathers
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) released a report highlighting waste in the stimulus package. The report, entitled 100 Stimulus Projects: A Second Opinion , is a counter to the Obama Administration's Recovery Report: 100 Days 100 Projects. The top ten most wasteful projects in the report are: 1. “Free”...
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Alexa Shrugged
on 06-22-2009
Filed under: wasteful spending, stimulus package, earmarks, Coburn
How eager is President Obama to spend tax payer money to "spread the wealth?" So eager that stimulus checks are being sent out to people who died more than forty years ago. Fifty-two million stimulus checks will be sent out by the Social Security Administration by June, with SS admitting that...