All Posts Tagged With: "stimulus"
Obama – Spending or Investing, Big Differences
President Obama has proposed a huge federal budget. In actual adjusted dollars the budget is the largest since 1945, just as we were coming out of WWII. The Republicans are shouting and whining and crying the traditional refrain: “The Liberal are spending our money! Run for your life!” Obviously, there is much spending – but […]
26Feb2009 | Ohg Rea Tone | 1 comment | Continued
Lincoln and Obama, Saving the Union
What is President Obama really saying about the economic stimulus package before Congress. Here is what I heard, “It is of the right scope, and addresses the right issues.” What does he mean by that? Does he agree with all of the details of the package? When Abraham Lincoln faced the Ciivil War, the most […]
6Feb2009 | Ohg Rea Tone | 1 comment | Continued
Identity Confusion
Who am I? Sounds like something Descartes might have asked – but I am not nearly so complex a creature as Descartes. There are a few things that are certain. I know I am a father and a grandfather. But those are mere biological truths (I defer here to Descartes). But the ideal of world politics, of a world community, of being an active participant in my world – leaves me a bit confused. I am just trying to figure out if I am liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican. It seems to me that the question is most often defined in terms of economics – and sometimes in terms of culture.
2Feb2009 | Ohg Rea Tone | 2 comments | Continued
Political Parlor Games and Obama’s Oracle
The Obama Oracle predicts the need for at least 825 BILLION in additional stimulus to the economy. It seems the parlor games are in full swing. The Democrats put some dubious spending in the proposal. Things like re-sodding the lawn on the Washington Mall. The oinking could be heard across the aisle. Too much pork the Republicans cried. Not enough tax cuts was the simple refrain. Obama was listening to the poetry of the Congress. Obama chose to go to Capital Hill himself to meet with Republican leaders (Republican Leader is an official oxy moron).
28Jan2009 | Ohg Rea Tone | 3 comments | Continued
Redneck Gazette –
Redneck Gazette Fifth Edition Stimulating Economics Stimulating Economics Ohmydidhesayjihad We is having some trouble figuring out what we is hearing. We got us a new President hoping that he would fix the problems this country is having. We don’t know nothing about economics. We only know that we should save more than we spend. We […]
27Jan2009 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Redneck Gazette – | Continued
Packed With Pork – Economic Stimulus in Perspective
One might think that the Republicans have been on the ropes for about twenty years – judging merely from the whining coming out of Congress. That Republican Congressman Boehner talks like he and his biddies have been the standard bearers for fiscal moderation for many years. Boehner and his cohorts are claim the economic stimulus package proposed by President Obama is packed with pork.
26Jan2009 | Ohg Rea Tone | 3 comments | Continued
My Stimulus Check Stimulates Me
Here is what I am going to do. Plain and simple. I am going to spend my gov’ment stimulus check to help the economy. I have a whole list of things that I am gonna do. Here it is. Right off, I am going to pay my car insurance for a year – then I […]
27Apr2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on My Stimulus Check Stimulates Me | Continued
5 things to do with your stimulus check
Dad, We are in the midst of an economic stimulus program that promises to deliver some pretty big checks to American consumers. This program, however, is not going to be a fix, it is going to be a band-aid. The problems that we aer having are not founded in a lack of spending by our […]
13Mar2008 | bryan | 3 comments | Continued
Stimulus – From Where?
Dad, President Bush is scheduled to provide his plan today for a stimuulus package that will give a boost to our faltering economy. I can understand the demand for some encouragement, as people are struggling everywhere with stock prices, failing mortgages, high gas prices and incomes that are not keeping up with the price of […]
18Jan2008 | bryan | Comments Off on Stimulus – From Where? | Continued