Steve Forbes weighs in today with a sobering assessment of the current financial crisis and our march back in time to the height of the Great Depression.
As Forbes says, a crisis must usually reach a moral tipping point, before the best answers are enacted. Let's hope we're there and let us elect folks in 2010 that will empower working families and our now frail economy.
Showing posts with label stimulus package. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stimulus package. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Steve Forbes Says 1933 is Coming Again - No Stimulus Package Blog
Monday, March 2, 2009
Pork on the Heels of Porkulus - No Stimulus Package Blog
Fresh off the trillion dollar plus "stimulus" package which the Congressional Budget Office projects will actually result in a net job loss over the next decade, President Obama will again break a major campaign promise when he signs the pork-laden omnibus bill.
According to Obama's right-hand man Rahm Emmanuel, the President's promise to reject bills including pork is "last year's business."
Apparently also on the "last year's business" list is Obama's promise to allow Americans to view every bill online, before he signs it into law. He's broken that promise with the "stimulus" package, the Lilly Ledbetter act and SCHIP--the first bills to hit his desk!
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Stimulus Allows Sale of Your Medical Records - No Stimulus Package Blog
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?!?
Call your Senators and Representative and demand that they vote NO on all future stimulus packages. (202) 224-3121
Friday, February 13, 2009
Stimulus Bill Passes House without GOP - No Stimulus Package Blog
The Obamalosi $1,000,000,000,000 stimulus package passed the House of Reps. today without a single Republican supporter and with several Democrats voting against it. Check out the vote tally here.
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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From Senator Mitch McConnell: “If you started spending the day that Jesus was born and you spend a million dollars every single day, you still wouldn't have spent a trillion dollars.”Call your Senators and Representative and demand that they vote NO on the "stimulus" package. (202) 224-3121
Photo: milliondollarbillshop.com
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
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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.
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.
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!
Call your Senators and Representative and demand that they vote NO on the current "stimulus" plan and move to a better bill that creates long-term job growth and digs us out through the free market. (202) 224-3121
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.
Call your Senators and Representative and demand that they vote NO on the current "stimulus" plan. (202) 224-3121
Friday, January 30, 2009
CNBC's Lawrence Kudlow says Shelve the Stimulus - No Stimulus Package Blog
Check out this great article by CNBC host Lawrence Kudlow on the train wreck that is the stimulus package that passed the House of Reps. and which continues to be pushed by President Barrack "I Won" Obama. As Kudlow points out, even Clinton economist Alice Rivlin inveighed against the trillion+ dollar monstrosity that Pelosi and friends passed with glee.
Call your Senators and Representative and demand that they hit the brakes on the stimulus package. (202) 224-3121
A 40-Year Wish List - No Stimulus Package Blog
Check out this great Wall Street Journal article on President Obama's proposed "stimulus" plan. Again, if Dems would cut the pork (or even most of it), they have a much better chance of winning GOP votes. Check out some of the "stimulus" that passed the House vote:
- Less than $30 billion for highway improvements
- $600,000,000 for the federal government to buy new cars (not for you and me)
- $325,000,000 for STD prevention
- $150,000,000 to insure farmers against honeybee damage
- $81,000,000,000 for Medicaid
- $36,000,000,000 for unemployment benefits
- $20,000,000,000 for food stamps
- $1,000,000,000+ for the Department of Health and Human Services to study alternative medical treatments
Again, this is supposed to be a STIMULUS package. Perhaps most if not all of the money should go to jobs creation and incentivizing businesses and individuals to start spending again?!?
Call your Senators and Representative and tell them to vote NO on the current "stimulus" plan. (202) 224-3121
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