Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Saturday, June 02, 2012

It's the policy of tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking government that's failing

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With the release Friday of May's terrible jobs report (and let's not sugar coat anything-- 69,000 created is terrible, and the unem...
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Monday, February 06, 2012

GOP gets rabbit ears on the Clint Eastwood Chrysler commercial

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Republican Clint Eastwood is catching all kinds of grief for making a commercial for Chrysler saying that "It's time for the second...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Why I support President Obama without reservation in 2012

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Lately, when I've criticized the Obama administration on specific issues where I've disagreed with policy (such as Afghanistan or th...
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Friday, June 26, 2009

Stimulus boosts income, consumer spending in May

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According to the Financial Times, US incomes surge as stimulus kicks in . Personal income in the US surged in May thanks to an infusion of g...
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Monday, March 23, 2009

What will conservatives do if the stimulus works?

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This is now becoming President Obama's economy. The stimulus funds are now being poured into the economy, billions of stimulus dollars a...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Rush on Obama: "I hope he fails"

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This is what Rush Limbaugh had to say today: If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans have laid down. And I would enco...
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Monday, January 19, 2009

January 20, 2001-- January 20, 2009. The record of the Bush economy.

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One year ago I wrote a post entitled, seven years of the Bush economy . Well, today it's time to update and close the book on it. Of cou...
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Monday, November 17, 2008

A Buffet (t) of choices when choosing a Treasury Secretary

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I'd like to discuss the most important Obama cabinet appointment: Secretary of the Treasury. There is no doubt that we are heading into ...
Monday, September 29, 2008

Obama: the safe alternative to McCain

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John McCain's whole strategy has been based on essentially two elements-- the first is to try and suggest that for America to elect Bara...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

McCain scheme to duck out of the debate Friday

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John McCain has said he is suspending his campaign so he can rush to Washington and work on the bailout plan with Congressional leaders. He ...
Friday, September 19, 2008

An idea for Federal bailouts: let We the People keep 20%

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For a change, it looks like George W. Bush did the right thing. Not that he had a lot of choice. We came remarkably close earlier this week ...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

It isn't just John McCain who doesn't have a clue about the economy. Neither do the people advising him.

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Today, Hewlett Packard announced another 24,000 job cuts , officially associated with its merger with Electronic Data Systems. The job cuts ...
Monday, September 15, 2008

McCain still claiming the economy is 'fundamentally strong.'

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John McCain today at a rally in Florida-- that's right, TODAY, said that he feels that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong....
Friday, September 05, 2008

unemployment figures highlight Bush-McCain economic failures.

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Today we found out that unemployment in August shot up to 6.1%. This is up more than a full percentage point since April, representing liter...
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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Comparing Hillary Clinton to John McCain-- and the contrast is stark.

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I've decided to swear off of criticizing Hillary Clinton. That's because of not only the glee I've heard from the right every ti...
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Monday, January 21, 2008

Seven years of the Bush economy

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Yesterday marked seven years since George W. Bush took office. And one year from today someone else will take over and inherit a far differe...
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Monday, January 08, 2007

There are times when a tax hike is needed, and this could be one of those times.

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Republicans are flabbergasted that some Democrats are suggesting rolling the Bush tax cuts back to the Clinton rates, particularly on the we...