List/Grid Tag Archives: stimulus
Obama: I’ll be a one-term president if I can’t get this done in three years
Three years ago today, President Obama let America know we should be seeing progress within one year – with some lingering pain. But he does not get it “done in…
Stimulus and the broken window fallacy
As the President gets ready to propose yet another stimulus I thought it might be nice to review a centuries old retort to government spending as a solution to economic ills…
Stimulus money and broadband
Remember the Stimulus Bill that just had to be passed quickly in 2009, or unemployment would rise above 8%? $7.2 billion of the total stimulus was allocated to subsidies to provide broadband services…
Obama seems to have hired Carney as White House liar
Just two days into the gig, and Jay Carney – the new White House spokesman – gives us two shining examples of twisting the truth in a grand attempt to…
The stimulus pulls an o fer! Didn’t stop the recession and create jobs
I run this in light of the resignation of yet another Obama economic guru … Larry Summers. It’s a great analysis of how the stimulus didn’t solve anything other than…
Prof Goolsbee to America: Umm, no, unemployment not coming down anytime soon
Well, there’s a shock. The new economist in chief at the White House, Austan Goolsbee tells ABC’s This Week, don’t look for unemployment to fall. Actually he also wouldn’t make…
Robert Reich to the “rich”: We don’t need your stinking saving and investment
Spoken like a true lefty. Tax cuts for the rich are useless. Tax cuts for the poor stimulate the economy. Yada, yada, etc, etc. I actually want to cut the Harvard professor…
Krauthammer on the CBO “recovery”: Phony numbers vs hard facts
As Ed Morrissey at Hot Air said so many months ago , “if your are going to make up a number, why don’t you just say the stimulus created or…
Stimulus: Stupid solar investment pays off in 70 years, panels dead in 40
What a way to spend $179,00. Not only is funding this project completely unconstitutional, it’s a flat out bad investment even if it was paid for local government dollars or…
A prophet among us
I wish I could take credit for this, but I can’t. My producer Bob Joyce pointed this one out and the more I thought about it, the more I realized…
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