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White House budget director says economy is 'weak'
AP ^
| March 8, 2009
| PHILIP ELLIOTT
Posted on 03/08/2009 7:32:08 PM PDT by smokingfrog
The White House's top budget official declared on Sunday that "fundamentally, the economy is weak" while saying the administration's own financial predictions could need a revision by midyear.
Peter Orszag, President Barack Obama's Office of Management and Budget director, said in television interviews that the economic downturn has been years in the making but cautioned that the new administration wasn't yet looking at a second economic stimulus package. Orszag said the already-in-place $787 billion stimulus should have a chance to work before officials ask Congress to consider a sequel.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amateurhour; bho44; bhoeconomy; bhoomg; captainobvious; idiot; incompetence; moron; onthejobtraining; orszag; zeronomics
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Duh! Tell me something I don't know.
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
03/08/2009 7:33:15 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
To: smokingfrog
Even Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles can see that, idiot.
To: dfwgator
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posted on
03/08/2009 7:34:10 PM PDT
by
GoCards
To: smokingfrog
Who knew? Pansy-boy srikes again. He'll have more cred when his voice changes. Sheesh.
To: smokingfrog
LEVENE
The leads are weak.
BLAKE
The leads are weak? The f*ckin leads are weak? You’re weak. I’ve been in this business fifteen years—
MOSS
What’s your name?
BLAKE
F*ck you, that’s my name.
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posted on
03/08/2009 7:35:56 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
03/08/2009 7:36:07 PM PDT
by
dighton
To: smokingfrog
but cautioned that the new administration wasn't yet looking at a second economic stimulus package.Time to move to Central America...
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posted on
03/08/2009 7:36:26 PM PDT
by
John123
(The US may be going down the drain, but everyone else will drown first...)
To: GoCards
Must be really good drugs at the White House
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posted on
03/08/2009 7:36:35 PM PDT
by
scooby321
To: smokingfrog
Calling Captain Obvious.
O’s Economic Team is simply not quite ready for Prime Time. Geithner, this joker and the ultimate weirdo, Romer actually frighten me. Just a bunch of Puppets.
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posted on
03/08/2009 7:36:35 PM PDT
by
TCats
To: smokingfrog
Hey Sherlock....are you just getting caught up on the news??
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posted on
03/08/2009 7:37:00 PM PDT
by
Semper Mark
(Communism is Socialism with a gun to your head.)
To: smokingfrog
To: smokingfrog
And in other news, Generalisimo Francisco Franco is still dead and it has been determined that wrestling bears while coated with honey is dangerous.
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posted on
03/08/2009 7:37:17 PM PDT
by
50mm
(My respect for zero has reached zero)
To: smokingfrog
To: smokingfrog
“This isn’t the American economy I knew.”
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posted on
03/08/2009 7:37:28 PM PDT
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
To: smokingfrog
Buffoons running the country now.
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posted on
03/08/2009 7:38:14 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
To: a fool in paradise
To: 2banana
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posted on
03/08/2009 7:40:03 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( Dear Mr. Obama - Please make it rain candy! P.S. I like jelly beans.)
To: smokingfrog
Be prepared for “SON OF PORKULUS” (blood dripping letters). Coming to a theater near you.
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posted on
03/08/2009 7:40:25 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: smokingfrog
NOOOOOOO!!! You don’t say!
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posted on
03/08/2009 7:42:46 PM PDT
by
autumnraine
(Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson VIVA LA REVOLUTION!)
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