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20 February 2009 - When will Obama stop bad mouthing the economy?
It was just a week ago that Barack Obama stood up and told the country that unless the economic stimulus package was passed last Friday, doom and gloom would occur. He proceeded to set up an environment where it was physically impossible to read the entire disasterous pork bill. Well, the bill passed and Barack [...]

16 February 2009 - Stimulus ideas you disagree with are still ideas!
This morning I read an editorial in the Trentonian written by Donna Brazile decrying the fact that the GOP was “nitpicking” on the stimulus. Even more so, her contribution to the discussion was that Republicans had no ideas to add to the discussion. I am paraphrasing here because I do not want to dignify her [...]

12 February 2009 - Earmarks vs Porkulus
Barack Obama and congressional Democrats keep touting a canard that this wonderful stimulus bill they are ramming through is “completely free of earmarks”. Let’s examine that statement. The definition of an Earmark is as follows (from Wikipedia): In US politics an earmark is a congressional provision that directs approved funds to be spent on specific [...]

05 February 2009 - Democrat Stimulus Bill must be rewritten – CALL YOUR SENATOR!
As we have written in the space before, the “stimulus bill” is primarily a collection of Democratic party detritus and paybacks to donors from the Presidential campaign. Since the urgency of this legislation was to stimulate the economy, this bill should be killed in the senate. There are many valid programs in the bill and [...]

26 January 2009 - Stimulus that doesn’t stimulate – Part II
In our first post examining the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act we examine each category of spending and commented on whether or not it was worthwhile as well as its impact on stimulating the economy. Last week saw a Congressional Budget Office report (or draft) that drew some of the same conclusions that we did [...]

17 January 2009 - Democrat stimulus package or massive pork bill? You decide-Part 1
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009 is perhaps the most appalling piece of proposed legislation I have ever seen. The stated purpose of the bill is to jumpstart the economy and create jobs. The bill itself claims that there are no earmarks in this bill. That is one of the most comical claims [...]

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