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Heckonomics: The Stimulus
Culture11 ^ | 1/23/09 | Tim Carney

Posted on 01/26/2009 11:47:34 AM PST by Ericka81

An unfortunate inevitability of politics is that not all vague and beautiful-sounding campaign promises are discarded. Some emerge as real-life policy proposals soon after the election.

Barack Obama's intentionally vague promise of Change You Can Believe In will now manifest itself in new laws, regulations, and personnel. And his nearly-as-contentless call for a "stimulus package" to aid the ailing economy has been written up as legislation.

So, what is in this bill? In what ways is it supposed to stimulate the economy?

The Bills

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: culture11; economy; stimulus; timcarney

1 posted on 01/26/2009 11:47:34 AM PST by Ericka81
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"The chief sponsor of the House bill is Democratic congressman David Obey..."

How appropriate.

2 posted on 01/26/2009 1:19:12 PM PST by cake_crumb (Waiting for Dear Leader Obama to drop sea levels and heal Earth.)
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