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Last week I linked to two reports that show that government stimulus, specifically infrastructure “investments”, do not provide any economic growth.   It in fact does more long term damage than good.  As if on cue, Obama has now announced plans for additional stimulus…on infrastructure.  It is obvious at this point that Obama and his team [...]

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There are a lot of things going on right now so it’s hard to pick out what I should right about.  It should be equally hard to defend all the stuff that is going on, but liberals certainly are trying. There is the Arizona immigration law.  The administration has called the law “unfortunate”.  Obama wants [...]

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Back in February or March the head of the CBO, Doug Elmendorf, admitted that they did not actually look at the stimulus’ effect on the economy when they boasted it had saved 1.5 million jobs.  So what did they do?  They used the prediction model again and passed that off as new results.  They basically [...]

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I promised I would do a little something on the state of the union address given by Obama last week so here it is as promised.  Sorry it is such a belated response, but I had a couple other things I wanted to write about as well. (Mainly this post ) Plus, Obama did speak [...]

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200 Days 200 Claims

September 1, 2009

The stimulus has all but been forgotten with the current health care debate, but the waste and debt are still as real as ever.  Many people cautioned the administration and Congress about the stimulus and its ill effects, but few liberals listened.  Along with help from 3 Republican Senators they passed the largest spending bill [...]

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