That’s gratitude for you. Maine’s Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins joined Arlen Specter to break GOP ranks to make the stimulus possible, and 18 months later Mr. Biden blames them for the fact that it hasn’t stimulated enough. Maybe if the Maine Senators vote this week to extend unemployment benefits, Mr. Biden will blame them for the 9.5% jobless rate.
On July 18, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
On April 28, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The recovery is picking up steam as employers boost payrolls, but economists think the government’s stimulus package and jobs bill had little to do with the rebound, according to a survey released Monday.
In latest quarterly survey by the National Association for Business Economics, the index that measures employment showed job growth for the first time in two years — but a majority of respondents felt the fiscal stimulus had no impact.
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On January 25, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
Nearly three out of four Americans think that at least half of the money spent in the federal stimulus plan has been wasted, according to a new national poll.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday morning also indicates that 63 percent of the public thinks that projects in the plan were included for purely political reasons and will have no economic benefit, with 36 percent saying those projects will benefit the economy.
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On January 2, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
Remember how $200 billion in federal stimulus cash was supposed to save the states from fiscal calamity? Well, hold on to your paychecks, because a big story of 2010 will be how all that free money has set the states up for an even bigger mess this year and into the future.
The combined deficits of the states for 2010 and 2011 could hit $260 billion, according to a survey by the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Ten states have a deficit, relative to the size of their expenditures, as bleak as that of near-bankrupt California. The Golden State starts the year another $6 billion in arrears despite a large income and sales tax hike last year. New York is literally down to its last dollar. Revenues are down, to be sure, but in several ways the stimulus has also made things worse.
On December 28, 2009, In Uncategorized, By admin
In 2008 and 2009, Washington strove to save the economy. In 2010, Americans will get a clearer picture of how Washington has changed the economy.
On December 27, 2009, In Uncategorized, By admin
If the attention of the American people is focused somewhere else, it must be time to quickly push through some radical, self-serving, and impossible-to-defend new agency rule. And with Christmas upon us and Americans paying more attention to the offensive mess that the Senate approved today, it’s probably a good time for the Obama administration to significantly expand how they count jobs ’saved or created’ by the porkulus:
On December 27, 2009, In Uncategorized, By admin
The House has passed a $154 billion jobs bill, and the administration has announced a plan to spend $50 billion of repaid TARP money to “create” jobs—this time its green jobs, “shovel ready” infrastructure projects ($27.5 billion for highway construction and repair) and a tax credit for small businesses.
More infrastructure? Recycling Great Depression-era projects is lame. Put down that shovel! It’s time to try something else.
On December 27, 2009, In Uncategorized, By admin
On December 11, 2009, In Uncategorized, By admin
On December 11, 2009, In Uncategorized, By admin
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