Obama Stimulus Plan

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Billionaire For A Day: A More Entertaining Economic Stimulus Package

Robert Guttman | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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Let's do something to capture all Americans attention and by doing so make the economic stimulus package real to all of us: 800 Americans will each win a billion dollars.

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Obama Economic Adviser Volcker "Increasingly Frustrated" By Delays, Blames Summers

Bloomberg | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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Paul Volcker has grown increasingly frustrated over delays in setting up the economic advisory group President Barack Obama picked the former Federal ...

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Pulling the Wool Over Our Eyes

Rep. Lynn Woolsey | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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The American people elected President Obama in record numbers to lead our country in a new direction, if the Republicans aren't willing to join him, the least they can do is get out of his way.

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Our God That Failed

David Bromwich | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

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The high doctrine of Economic Correctness of the Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush years is as bankrupt as Soviet Communism. It is all but officially dead. Why then are the president's economic advisers paid to prop it up?

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Stimulate Me!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.07.2009 | Business

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Experts seem relatively unified, if such a thing is possible, on the issue of direct economic stimulus to every taxpayer. They're against it.

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Obama To Meet With Moderate Senators, Aim To Cut Stimulus

ABC | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

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President Obama will meet today with leaders of a bipartisan group of moderate senators working now on bringing down the overall cost of the stimulus ...

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Peaceful Revolution: Investing in Our Human Infrastructure

Riane Eisler | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

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The Real Wealth of our Nation is Its People Over half a million people lost their jobs last month. There's no question we need a job-creation plan. T...

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Arianna and Richard Quest Discuss Obama's Stimulus Plan

Huff TV | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business

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Arianna and Richard Quest joined host Rick Sanchez on "CNN Newsroom" to discuss Obama's stimulus plan. Watch the full segment below. ...

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House Republicans Want Senate Colleagues To Block Stimulus

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

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House Republicans are pushing their Senate colleagues to stand unanimously against President Obama's stimulus package, as they themselves did in the l...

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The Truth About the Stimulus Package

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

Until other countries are willing to do their share to stimulate the global economy, the Obama administration is right to lift our boat first.

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Senate Republicans: Please Help

Sally Kohn | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

While conservatives would have us think that the crisis we're in is a fluke, the reality is that we have all been standing on the curb of opportunity for far too long as prosperity passed us by.

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Stimulus Package: If You Jump Halfway Across a Chasm You Fall Into the Abyss

Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

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If we are going to spend two trillion dollars (and most likely more) trying to deal with the economic crisis, shouldn't we do it right?

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Whiplash: Conservatives Play Politics with Stimulus Spending

Scott Lilly | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

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Republicans demonstrated that they will adapt to whatever philosophy they find most tactically useful in blocking their political opponent -- the new president.

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Liberal Groups Profit From GOP's Resistance To Stimulus

The Plum Line | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

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Whatever you think of the politics of it, the House GOP's decision to oppose President Obama's stimulus package en masse has been awfully good for the...

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Obama & Bipartisanship: It Takes Five to Tango

Lanny Davis | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

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This endless loop of partisan "we won, you lost" attitudes, exhibited by both political parties, is exactly what has alienated so much of the American electorate for such a long time.

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Dems Drop Anti-Smoking, STD Prevention From Stimulus

CNN | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

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Senate Democrats have dropped two controversial spending programs in the Senate economic stimulus bill: $75 million dollars for anti-smoking programs,...

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Will The Stimulus Do the Job? What Should we Do?

Danny Schechter | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

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We have to recognize we do not live in a perfect world or a world of our choosing. There is no question that the government must act. But how -- and what is the likely impact?

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Obama says differences shouldn't delay stimulus

AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Monday that "very modest differences" over a massive package to revive the economy should not delay its...

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Let's Talk About Jobs, Baby

Johnathon Briggs | Posted 03.05.2009 | Chicago

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Congress should approve the $400 million in prevention funding so that we can stop talking about sex and start improving the health of all Americans-- not just the ones we morally agree with.

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Auto Dealers Critical to U.S. Economy

Grant Cardone | Posted 03.05.2009 | Business

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While the manufacturers have been given most, if not, all the attention, the reality is if your local auto dealers don't survive and prosper the manufacturers will have no need to build product.

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Stimulus Package Set To Grow In Senate, Could Reach 1 Trillion

Wall Street Journal | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

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A push in the Senate to expand business-tax cuts and infrastructure spending in the economic-stimulus plan making its way through Congress poses a cha...

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Obama To Outline New Bailout Strategy In The Coming Days

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 03.03.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Saturday promised to lower mortgage costs, offer job-creating loans for small businesses, get credit flow...

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The 200 Million Dollar Question

Cristina Page | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

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Republicans staged a temper tantrum last week over spending $200 million on contraceptive coverage. It turns out such a request wasn't even included in the stimulus.

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Why Contraception Saves Money and Prevents Abortion

Dr. Peter Klatsky | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

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While I respect the opinions of those who oppose abortion, I do not understand why those same leaders would then oppose policies proven to reduce abortions.

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Republicans: "Go To Hell America!" 100% Partisan Vote

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

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The Republican Party just doesn't get it. We are in trouble! And our country's fate and the success or failure of the Obama presidency is now one and the same.

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