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Tracking the Bailout
Tracking the Bailout
The decision on whether or not to allow the second half of the TARP funds to be released is the main headscratcher currently facing our Congress. President-elect Obama is threatening a veto if Congress passes the resolution to not allow the funds to be released. The political posturing seems to have our Congress quivering. They couldn't possibly expect to overturn The One's first major veto, could they? Perhaps if they understood just what's happening with all that money, they'd make the right decision without hesitation. Perhaps if we understood it better, we'd really be able to let them know what we thought! That said, follow me down the rabbit hole... http://organizedexploitation.blogspo...g-bailout.html
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http://www.readthestimulus.org/
Welcome to ReadTheStimulus.org ! Posted at 1pm on Friday, January 16th 2009 Welcome to ReadTheStimulus.org ! The site is a work in progress, so please bear with us as we add features and functionality to help citizens read and understand the 2009 fiscal stimulus bill. In particular, we will be providing the ability for visitors to add their own comments and feedback directly to the text of the bill shortly. A key feature of the site that we hope will see wide use is the ability for bloggers or any other online publishers to link directly to an individual page of the bill text. The format is simple: http://readthestimulus.org/index.php?doc=docversion&page=pagenumberFeedback is welcome; please send email to info@readthestimulus.org.
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Biggest Boondoggle in American History
January 18, 2009 Posted by John at 10:47 AM We are living in a historical moment that in some ways represents uncharted territory. In other respects, however, the current moment is a return to a simpler and clearer past, when the hallmark of conservatism was opposition to extravagant spending boondoggles proposed by liberals. For a variety of reasons the fiscal battle lines have been blurred in recent years, but these days we are back to the paradigm that held sway decades ago. Yesterday, Minority Leader John Boehner sent out an email on the House Democrats' ridiculous $825 billion "stimulus" bill. It is worth reproducing in its entirety: A Dozen Fun Facts About the House Democrats' Massive Spending BillPreference for a smaller, more limited federal government is probably the single most universal feature of all strands of modern conservatism. Yet, as we have noted before, conservatives have failed to have much impact on the steadily increasing federal budget. This graph, which shows federal spending from 1965 to the present in 2007 dollars, pretty much says it all; click to enlarge: Old-style conservatives have been discouraged by the movement's apparent failure to have any significant impact on the inexorable growth of government. Note, however, the uptick at the end of the graph. If the Democrats get their way over the next couple of years, we may see what happens when conservatives are entirely out of power in Washington: an explosion in federal spending and regulatory reach that threatens the foundation of our free enterprise system. If that doesn't energize and unify conservatives, nothing will. Deficit spending is a subject on which the parties have almost switched roles. Traditionally it was the Democrats who were Keynesians (or just liked to spend money), and Republicans who warned against deficits. That began to change in the Reagan administration, and, as federal deficits failed to produce the adverse consequences, e.g. high interest rates, that had been predicted, opposition to deficits in both parties withered. If anything, Democrats have tended to don the green eyeshades in recent years, albeit not with much sincerity. But what Congressional Democrats are now planning, by way of deficit spending, dwarfs anything in our post-World War II history, as this graph illustrates; click to enlarge: It seems inconceivable that the deficits now contemplated by the Democrats will not have adverse effects, starting with inflation. Whatever those ill effects turn out to be, the Democrats will own them, just as they will own the tax increases that seem inevitable in the wake of the current profligacy. We appear to be returning, in short, to an era more like the one in which the modern conservative movement was born. If there was ever a time when America needed an effective conservative opposition, that time is now. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archive.../01/022586.php
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