By PUMA Pundit on July 13, 2009
The numbers from Obama’s stimulus are finally coming in, and at least 50 individuals in New Hampshire shall be able to attest to the fact that new jobs are truly being created: The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant reported last week that $413.6 million made its way to the state under a list of programs [...]
Posted in Economy | Tagged barack obama, Economy, jobs, New Hampshire, stimulus
By PUMA Pundit on July 9, 2009
Amazing how Obama keeps on using political strategies from emerging democracies to consolidate his hold on America… Counties that supported Obama last year have reaped twice as much money per person from the administration’s $787 billion economic stimulus package as those that voted for his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, a USA TODAY analysis of [...]
Posted in White House | Tagged aid, barack obama, counties, mccain, stimulus, White House
By PUMA Pundit on July 8, 2009
The first stimulus was predicted to be a failure, and all signs indicate that it is, yet there is talk in DC about passing a second Stimulus. Thankfully, some Democrats in Congress are balking at the very thought of this. Bloomberg Democrats who control the levers of power in Washington are divided over whether to [...]
Posted in Capitol Hill | Tagged barack obama, budget deficits, democrats, Economy, GOP, Harry Reid, jared bernstein, joe biden, republicans, Sheldon Whitehouse, steny hoyer, stimulus, unemployment
By PUMA Pundit on July 2, 2009
When Barack Obama was pushing for his stimulus, anyone who understood basic economic theory knew that the premise for it was fundamentally flawed; you grow the economy by lowering taxes, not by printing more money and increasing government spending. Either way, despite the Stimulus, official unemployment numbers have hit a 26 year high of 9.5%, [...]
Posted in Featured | Tagged barack obama, gdp, healtcare insurance reform, jobs, stimulus, timothy geithner, unemployment, unemployment benefits
By PUMA Pundit on April 4, 2009
It is safe to say that the only thing that prevented FDR from taking the USA all the way to the left is WWII, this time I am not sure if we shall be as fortunate. This cartoon is from a 1934 edition of the Chicago Tribune. The names of the players may have changed, [...]
Posted in Media | Tagged chicago tribune, donald richberg, FDR, germany, harold ickes, henry a. wallace, hitler, National Recovery Administration, new deal, nra, rexford guy tugwell, stalin, stimulus, usa |
