Obama rallies Democrats with tough partisan speech
“We can’t embrace the losing formula that says only tax cuts will work for every problem we face; that ignores critical challenges like our addiction to foreign oil, or the soaring cost of health care, or falling schools and crumbling bridges and roads and levees.”
“They didn’t vote for the [...]
Tagged with: economy, Obama, speech, spending, stimulus
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Congressional Budget Office’s Summary of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Text of H.R. 1
The CBO’s summary is more straight forward than the Committe on Appropriation’s summary and omits useless opinions like “America should lead the world in transforming the way automobiles are powered.”
There’s just tons of stuff in this thing. It is truly [...]
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It’s that wonderful time of year again and I’m going to post my critical analysis of the propositions on the ballot. We’ve got 12 to consider this time and some of them aren’t exactly insignificant. I’ll do my best to cut through the you know what and present the facts and the conclusions that they [...]
Tagged with: california, election, proposition, spending
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I’ve been getting increasingly annoyed about the mainstream media’s coverage of housing and the economy. Someone coined the term “credit crunch” and it gets regurgitated in every single story that happens to mention the economy. The problem is the lack of credit isn’t the cause of our current economic woes, it is just merely a [...]
Tagged with: personal finance, spending, taxes
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For a while I wasn’t really tracking how I spent money. I’d just pay my credit card balance off every month and get cash as I needed it. Before writing checks I’d just make sure I had enough in my account to cover it. All I knew was that I wasn’t spending my entire paycheck [...]
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