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News Source: Uinta County News
| 10 months ago
One of the most difficult dynamics in legislating is the seemingly never ending critique that the good is not perfect. That argument is in constant use and is far too often an excuse to make the bad worse or not at all. As the debate heats up on the...
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News Source: Dallas Observer
| 10 months ago
Obama also said that he wants stricter guidelines and greater transparency in spending the remaining $350 billion in the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Obama takes office Jan. 20 and is pressing Congress to act quickly on a two-year economic stimulus...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 10 months ago
President-elect Barack Obama said reviving the US economy will require scaling back on his campaign promises and personal sacrifice from all Americans. “I want to be realistic here, not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we...
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News Source: Truthout
| 10 months ago
President-elect Barack Obama announces his choice of Nancy Killefer to be the administration's "chief performance officer." She will be responsible for ensuring fiscal discipline in the face of what could be trillion-dollar deficits. (Photo: Getty...
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News Source: Taiwan News
| 10 months ago
The U.S. economy is in the throes of a deepening recession and needs a really big dose of fiscal stimulus to help stabilize it. What it doesn't need is efforts by congressional Republicans to limit the size of the package because of feigned concerns...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 11 months ago
Dedicated Reds never tire of pointing out that communism never failed, because it was never tried...It would succeed, they aver – utterly without evidence – if only truly implemented. Similarly, when considering the New Deal – which everyone...
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News Source: France 24
| 11 months ago
Barack Obama said Saturday his economic stimulus plan will "save or create three to four million jobs" as the president-elect sought to stem criticism of the 775-billion-dollar package designed to revive the ailing US economy. In his weekly...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 11 months ago
There are moments in American history where decisive action is required and by all accounts we are at such a point with our struggling national economy. But what's the right decision to take to restore economic growth? Some knowledgeable voices are...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 11 months ago
With Congress moving slower than he'd hoped, President-elect Barack Obama upped the ante on his economic recovery package Saturday, saying he now believes his plan can save or create up to 4 million jobs -- a million more than he had earlier...
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News Source: The Washington Times
| 11 months ago
At least the word "trillion" still has cachet as denoting a lot of money. "Billion" has been surpassed during the last few months, and "million" has long been positively quaint. The Obama team wants to keep its two-year stimulus plan (just) beneath a...