Check out this revealing story from Fred Lucas, which shines a harsh light on the many and varied reasons that your health records could be sold thanks to the Obamalosi "stimulus" bill. Ain't big government grand?!?
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Stimulus Allows Sale of Your Medical Records - No Stimulus Package Blog
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Friday, February 13, 2009
Video - The Stimulus Bill That Nobody's Read - No Stimulus Package Blog
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Vizualizing a Trillion Dollars - No Stimulus Package Blog
From the comments section of an article I posted to Newsvine here:
A stack of thousand dollar bills four inches high is a million dollars. One million dollars.
One billion dollars is a stack of one thousand dollar bills 4000 inches tall or 333 1/3 feet high!
Consider the Obama/Pelosi/Reid/democrat stimulus/debt and Recovery Act of 2009. Round off to one trillion dollars. That is a stack of one thousand dollar bills four million inches tall or 63.1313 miles high!
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Photo: milliondollarbillshop.com
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Thomas Jefferson Chimes in Once More on the Stimulus Package - No Stimulus Package Blog
"To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we (will then) be taxed in our meat and our drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they (will) be happy." - Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States/Author of the Declaration of Independence, 1791
Thanks for the quote to Michael Reagan, son of the late President Ronald Reagan. Call your Senators and Representative and demand that they vote NO on the stimulus package. (202) 224-3121
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Video Report - Stimulus Package Would Ration Healthcare Based on Cost - No Stimulus Package Blog
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Charles Schumer Reveals What Americans Think about Pork Spending - No Stimulus Package Blog
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Senators Lindsay Graham and Barbara Boxer Clash On Senate Floor - No Stimulus Package Blog
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Republicans Say Their Plan Will Create More Jobs - No Stimulus Package Blog
Check out this post from the Republican members of the House Ways and Means committee. They project that their plan will create far more jobs than the current "stimulus" package being pushed by President Obama and the Democratic Congressional leadership.
FYI, the GOP figures include state-by-state jobs creation numbers and are based on a 2007 National Bureau of Economic Research study.
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Monday, February 9, 2009
$9.7 Trillion On the Line - No Stimulus Package Blog
Bloomberg has added up all the costs of the TARP, FDIC bailouts and the current "stimulus" package. The grand total: $9,700,000,000,000. Check out their tally here.
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Friday, February 6, 2009
CBO Projects Stimulus Will Do Long-Term Harm to GDP - No Stimulus Package Blog
As the Washington Times reports here, the Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday declared that President Obama and the Congressional Democrats' "stimulus" package will cause long-term harm to our nation's output and will have little impact on job growth.
With polls showing a majority of Americans (and growing) against this bill, what will it take for Congress and the President to put the brakes on? Jamming their phone lines and email inboxes with your discontent!
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
Thomas Jefferson Weighs in on Stimulus - No Stimulus Package Blog
Amazingly, our third President and the author of the Declaration of Independence has come back from the dead to inveigh against President Obama's "stimulus" package. Okay, Jefferson isn't really back from the dead but his words still ring true:
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
Thanks to Ericka Anderson of TownHall.com for digging up that quote.
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Popular Support for Stimulus Dropping Like Lead Balloon - No Stimulus Package Blog
Rasmussen's latest survey finds a great majority of Americans do not support President Obama's "stimulus" package in its present form. Check it out here.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
New Website Allows Readers to Search Stimulus Bill - No Stimulus Package Blog
Do you want to see what's actually in the stimulus bill, beyond what's reported here and elsewhere? Cruise by www.readthestimulus.org to browse the entirety of the House and Senate versions of President Obama's proposed $1,000,000,000,000+ "stimulus" plan.
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Monday, February 2, 2009
How Government Prolonged the Depression - No Stimulus Package Blog
Many credit New Deal policies with pulling the U.S. out of the Great Depression. However, FDR's plan was a mixed bag which in many cases prolonged the Great Depression.
Check out this great Wall Street Journal article by University of Pennsylvania professor of economics Harold Cole and UCLA professor of economics Lee Ohanian.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Economists Respond to "Stimulus" Package - No Stimulus Package Blog
Check out this advertisement featuring many economists' response to President Obama's $850,000,000,000 stimulus package. FYI, Keynesian economic theory asserts that government spending will induce private sector growth. As the CATO Institute ad relates, this terrible economic idea put into action failed to bail out the U.S. during the Great Depression and Japan during the 1990s.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Hooray for Hollywood -- Studios to Get Share of the Bailout Pie - No Stimulus Package Blog
National Journal is reporting that even Hollywood film studios are lining up for their own dose of federal largesse via massive and previously unavailable tax breaks. In the words of the GOP aide quoted at the end of the article, "President Obama said that he didn't want the stimulus bill to turn into a Christmas tree. Well, Christmas has come early for Hollywood."
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Stimulus Package to Throw Two Billion Dollars at HHS - No Stimulus Package Blog
As reported here, the second "stimulus" package is slated to include nearly $2,000,000,000 for the Department of Health and Human Services to compare a variety of medical treatments and establish best practices. Can somebody please tell me what in the wide, wide, wide world of sports this has to do with digging our nation out of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression?!?
Why not throw a billion or two at the Department of Transportation to study better road design? Or how about dumping a few hundred million hard-earned taxpayer dollars on the Department of Labor to study optimal lunch break strategy?
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Update: CBO Reports that Just $216 Billion of Bailout to Be Allocated by 2011 - No Stimulus Package Blog
Update: According to the CBO blog linked below, just $216 billion of the $825 billion package proposed by President Obama will be allocated by the end of 2010. Obviously this estimate is much higher than the $26 billion estimate which spread quickly online.
Of course, this allocation doesn't equate to actual government spending in the next two years, especially considering the lengthy government contract bidding process and the organizational inefficiencies commensurate with massive increases in funding--a reality specifically mentioned by the CBO Director.
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Dems to Drop Birth Control from Stimulus Package - No Stimulus Package Blog
As reported here, Democratic Congressional leaders have dropped hundreds of millions in new federal contraceptive funding from the second "stimulus" package. Of course, the current package still includes hundreds of millions for federal employees to acquire alternative fuel cars, nearly 300 million for State Department computers and other utterly shameful purchases to be planted firmly on the back of generations of hard-working taxpayers.
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Monday, January 26, 2009
Economic Stimulus or Just More Pork? - No Stimulus Package Blog
As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, check out just a few ways that President Obama and our Congress want to stimulate the economy...
1) $400,000,000 for climate change research
2) $600,000,000 for alternative fuel cars for government workers
3) $2,500,000,000 to upgrade low-income housing
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Again, why not suspend payroll taxes and offer tax incentives to banks and private citizens, rather than swell the national deficit by nearly $1,000,000,000,000 and plunge headlong into the semi-socialism that has crippled economic growth in the UK and elsewhere?
http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?p=199