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Stimulus: Hiring jolt doubtful
A multibillion-dollar provision of the new federal stimulus package, billed as a huge jobs boost for the Northwest, might not translate into lots of new jobs for years. Even without the new stimulus package, BPA was expected to start construction on new transmission lines this year, and construction of additional job-creating projects might not start for years. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...22_bpa14m.html
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Promises, Promises
Soaring expectations collide with harsh political realities. How Barack Obama looks from Chicagoland. Joseph Epstein NEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated Feb 23, 2009 On Tuesday, this past Nov. 4, I voted for John McCain for President of The United States. On Wednesday morning, I woke feeling glad that he lost. Had McCain won, a spirit of gloom would have spread over the land, a deadening feeling of "Oh, God, business as usual," part of that business being that a man tied to failed economic policies was once again at the helm and a nonwhite candidate for president still hadn't a chance. But Barack Obama was our new president. Great day in the morning; a new age in American politics is upon us. Or is it? Like Augie March, I am an American, Chicago-born, but unlike Augie—a follower of Leon Trotsky—I have never been able to take politics with an entirely straight face. So often, I find my antipathies divided; faced with two equally outrageous candidates, a plague, I usually pronounce, on both their condominiums. The source of this is genealogical. When I was a boy, my father remarked that the aldermen of the City of Chicago, who were then paid an annual salary of $20,000, were spending as much as $250,000 to win election. "The arithmetic doesn't quite work out," he said, pausing, as if to say (though the phrase hadn't yet been invented), "You do the math." Politicians, my rich Chicago heritage tells me, are all guilty until proven innocent. When the great Rod Blagojevich scandal broke a few months ago, I, like most Chicagoans, wasn't in the least scandalized. All I found remarkable in it was the now former governor's efficiency, in the realm of corruption, in eliminating the middleman and asking for the money himself. http://www.newsweek.com/id/184774/output/print
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I think the fact that the three leading business organizations in the country support the bill as a good first step (while not perfect) is very promising.
US Chamber of Commerce (95% of its members are small businesses)Many, including Obama and Congressional Democrats, agree its not a perfect bill but that the "whole is more important than the individual parts." Republicans, on the other hand, chose to focus on the negative rather than the positive by misrepresenting a very small number of programs (pelosi's mouse project, funding for acorn, etc) they falsely suggest are contained in the bill. Last edited by Redux; 02-16-2009 at 06:22 PM. |
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No matter what the government does the recession/depression will drag on until the public decides to turn it around. The biggest effect the stimulus package can have is to restore public confidence. But half the stories on the news broadcasts and in the papers contain the words, in these economic times, or in this recession.
Plus the people playing politics, whiners, and harbingers of doom like Merc, have diminished that effect. Sure there's a lot of people out of work, but there's a fuck of a lot more people still working. Those people are scared, worried about the future, and will remain so because of the whiners, so they are holding on to their cash. Saving rates have more than doubled and spending is way down, exacerbating the pinch. You don't have to stick your head in the sand but at least pull it out of your ass.
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Worst is yet to come, says Obama http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...03/2480767.htm
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Shades of "saddam poses a direct and immediate threat to the US" (bush/cheney/rice/rumsfeld) or "mission accomplished" (bush) or "we cant wait for the mushroom cloud" (condi rice) or "saddam had ties to al queda" (cheney) |
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The comment was a quote in response to Bruce. Take it up with him.
Or maybe it was shades of "I NEVER HAD SEX WITH THAT WOMAN!" /angrylittlewillie. ![]()
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An effort at openness and accountability as the the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is implemented...as promised.
Recovery.gov |
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BTW - Couldn't they get a better picture of Obama? that one sucks. I'm gonna try to spend some time tonight and see what is really there, information-wise. I hope its not all Fluff 'n Stuff. I expect more from him.
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The numbers of jobs by state could legitimately be described as a best case scenario....much like the CBO analysis and the total of 3+ million jobs in 18 months. Objective observers should understand that. http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/estimated-job-effect Story time (Tell us how the Recovery Act is affecting you) should be fun. But its all part of the WH bully pulpit...to counter the bullshit. Last edited by Redux; 02-17-2009 at 04:16 PM. |
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So I never did say it. Thanks. Figures.
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