We really need this line to start moving the other way.

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Helene Cooper of The New York Times: The signature achievement — a response to the 2008 financial crisis that fundamentally alters the relationship between Wall Street and the federal officials charged with regulating it — is a culmination of two years of fierce lobbying and intense debate over how to deal with the financial excesses […]

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Without question, one should draw the conclusion that Obama’s pandering of jobless folk during his speech in the Rose Garden is a full admission of his failed $1,000,000,000,000 stimulus bill.  An opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal: Sure, Mr. Obama’s ostensible purpose was to lobby Congress for the eighth extension of jobless benefits since […]

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Though I won’t be holding my breath, perhaps other governing bodies will emulate Maywood.

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We were told by Obama that if only we had more job training, people could get back to work.  Peter S. Goodman via The New York Times: It was February 2009, and the city work force center in Downtown Brooklyn was jammed with hundreds of people hungry for paychecks. His caseworker urged [Israel Valle] to […]

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It occurs to me that one needn’t convince another that a stimulus measure was stimulating were it actually stimulating. That, were said stimulus stimulating, the results would largely be self-evident.

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I wonder how long until I can use this link?

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President Obama walks in to a large conference room full of business leaders. He waits to be acknowledged as The One before sitting at the head of the meeting table and begins to speak. President Obama: What is it about the current economic environment which has made it difficult to get private enterprise moving forward, […]

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Dan Balz via The Washington Post: The co-chairs of President Obama’s debt and deficit commission offered an ominous assessment of the nation’s fiscal future here Sunday, calling current budgetary trends a cancer “that will destroy the country from within” unless checked by tough action in Washington. Isn’t it comforting that it only took a specialized […]

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I wonder when media outlets like the Times will exhibit of bit of intellectual honesty and journalistic integrity and stop calling our economic policy deregulated?

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