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So far, all I’ve been seeing are high marks for Obama’s performance. I thought he tended to be a bit long winded in places, but I don’t think many Americans will be complaining about that after 8 years of a lot of simplistic hyperbole. I know I’m certainly not.
However, the thing [...]
Thhis is a bad recession. About in the middle of pack as far as recessions go. The graphic points out an interesting aspect of recessions. They all end. And, surprisingly, they didn’t all need a trillion dollar stimulus bill from the Feds to end them. In fact, all of them combined up to now did not need a trillion dollar stimulus to end.
The way some Republicans are talking, Obama’s plan will destroy our very way of life.
Do they really think it’s smart to put such an extreme message out there?
From CNN:
Leading Republicans warned Sunday that the Obama administration’s $800 billion-plus economic stimulus effort will lead to what one called a “financial disaster.”
“Everybody on the street in America [...]
Stimulus?
Stimulus.
Stimulus stimulus stimulus, stimulus stimulus stimulus stimulus stimulus stimulus stimulus stimulus.
Stimulus.
One week after I argued that my senator should be on MTP advocating for the stimulus package, well, there she is.
Coincidence?
Yes, probably.
She even tweeted about it today…as well as some thoughts on the stimulus yesterday…
McCaskill brings up a point that I’d like to address because there’s been so much ill will on this blog for [...]
Pay no attention to the content (massive pork) in the bill. Pay no attention to the fact that it will not solve the root problem and will at best delay a day of reckoning. Pay no attention that it will add a trillion dollars of debt that we do not have and will have to borrow from the Chinese or tax from Americans or devalue the currency to repay. Just pass it, because an economic fear-mongering President says it should be passed.
Since Gallup has been tracking these numbers in January, this is the highest support they’ve seen. In fact, as the next graph will show, as Dem support has actually decreased, independent has increased.
You couple this with recent polling and you get a bit of a mixed bag. Rasmussen recent poll revealed that opposition was higher [...]
Republican Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas sure said a mouthful yesterday…
“Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban,” Sessions said during a meeting yesterday with Hotline editors. “And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person’s entire processes. And these Taliban — I’m not [...]
If you thought $700 billion was a lot of money, well..
It is.
But $2 trillion is.. ridiculous.
This is Danielle Ivory from ANP.
Congress and the new administration have been focusing their attention on strengthening oversight for the Treasury’s TARP program, but meanwhile few are paying any attention to the Federal Reserve.
Since September, [...]
A spending bill as enormous as the current stimulus package is going to include its fair share of expenditures that have nothing to do with stimulating the economy. Our representatives can’t help themselves. They’ll use any spending bill as an excuse to fund pet projects. The AP details some of the non-stimulus related projects lurking [...]
I strongly support a massive fiscal stimulus to restore an atmosphere of confidence, avert a continued, severe downward spiral, and give the economy a big enough jolt to jump start a recovery.
But the $819 billion plan (really a $1.2 trillion plan including interest on the debt) adopted by the House of Representatives yesterday isn’t it. A large [...]
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