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• Democrats and the debt ceiling

  
  Letters in Bottles — Authority: 142
  “The bill’s already been run up; the credit card has already been used. When you get the bill in the mail you need to pay it." - Rep. Dave Obey Congressman Obey, why the hell were you spending with a credit card in the first place? The numbers getting tossed around show just how fiscally irresponsible the ...
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• Meat in School Lunches: Good Enough for Government Purposes

  
  Show-Me Daily — Authority: 478
  USA Today looks at meat in the National School Lunch Program and finds that it doesn’t compare favorably to the meat in fast food restaurants. The USDA accepts blemished meat that the restaurant chains would reject, and the private companies conduct better tests for bacteria, too. A professor of medicine ...
  8 hours ago

• HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN?

  
  THE COMMON PROGRESSIVE — Authority: 135
  Courtesy of : DailyKos So the House passed a $1.1 trillion budget, with $3.9 billion in earmarks identified. Thats what, a third of one percent? But rather than defend or attack earmarks (they can certainly stupid and are oftentimes a vehicle for corruption), Im more puzzled about this : Rep. Dan Lungren, ...
  9 hours ago

• Jim Rogers: Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner and Federal Reserve System Chairman Ben Bernanke Are Incompetent –”We Have No Bullets Left”–End The Fed–Fire Geithner!

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 474
  One-on One With Jim Rogers- CNBC-12.10.09 Fed Chairman: Ben Bernanke blasted by Senators   Jim Rogers the Economy is getting Worse Audit the Fed 1/2 Jim Rogers the Economy is getting Worse Audit the Fed 2/2 Jim Rogers Bloomberg December 2009 1/2   Jim Rogers Bloomberg ...
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• Government version of incentives:

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  Failed programs beget……More programs! That is success! Stimulus 1 with all it’s sideshows; cash for clunkers and multiple doa mortgage workout failures, will add scarcely a job on Main St. Dirty little secret: It went to government. So we can receive another $trillion bill and retain the metasizing, supersized ...
  14 hours ago

• Comparing anything to GDP is the Washington equivalent of Enron accounting.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  GDP includes federal spending. In 2008 transfer payments accounted for 45% of federal spending. Transfer payments are redistribution of wealth - things like Social Security, welfare, unemployment, and disability payments. Including government spending as part of GDP results in an artificially high number that is not ...
  14 hours ago

• What the EPA’s carbon finding really means

  
  The right-wing liberal — Authority: 530
  Jonah Goldberg has the best analysis of this at NRO . Read the whole thing, but here are the crticial points: On Monday, Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, formally announced that her agency now considers carbon dioxide to be a dangerous pollutant, subject to government regulation.  ...
  15 hours ago

• Americans Skeptical of Science Behind Global Warming

  
  The Uncooperative Bloggers — Authority: 117
  The Uncooperative Radio Show Host and I cant stand that we must talk about this subject over and over and over again, but it seems we have no choice and it is not going away any time soon. Sorry :( From Rasmussernreorts ; Most Americans (52%) believe that there continues to be significant disagreement within the ...
  22 hours ago

• Can the government create jobs?

  
  Healthcare Economist — Authority: 539
  On Tuesday, President Obama unveiled a plan to use repaid TARP monies to fund a job creation program .  The question is, can the government actually create jobs? Initially, one would say yes.  If the government hires more workers, this is job creation.  If the government hires more contractors, this is job ...
  1 day ago

• The DC Disease of Cronyism: Hillary’s Pollster Gets $6M in Stimulus Funds

  
  The Crabby Constituent — Authority:
  Hillary Clinton’s pollster, Mark Penn, received funds for two of his firms from the recent stimulus bill.  The same bill that was supposed to put jobless Americans back to work.  The evidence that this bill was merely a pay off to all of DC’s cronies continues to pile up.  Mark Penn received nearly $6 million ...
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• Deficit Commission: Wrong Target, Wrong Approach

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  By Daniel J. Mitchell Legislation being considered on Capitol Hill would create a supposed deficit reduction commission. If politicians were bound by truth-in-advertising, this proposal would be called a tax increase commission. It creates a mechanism that will — at best — replicate the 1982 and 1990 budget ...
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• Myths, Scares, Lies, and Deadly Innocent Frauds: Part Three

  
  Corrente — Authority: 624
  In the previous two posts in this series Ive examined four ideas that Warren Mosler has called “deadly innocent frauds,” (difs) and that others have variously referred to as myths, scares, and lies.
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• Myths, Scares, Lies, and Deadly Innocent Frauds: Part Three

  
  All Life Is Problem Solving — Authority: 112
  In the previous two posts in this series I’ve examined four ideas that Warren Mosler has called “deadly innocent frauds,” (difs) and that others have variously referred to as myths, scares, and lies. Three of the difs — that Government deficits create a debt burden for future generations, take away ...
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• Spending and Jobs

  
  Show-Me Daily — Authority: 478
  Following Tuesday’s commentary on a Tax Foundation report , MO Rage has written another post that has me scratching my head. This one’s about government spending, and it contains the following statement: I totally agree that we need to reduce spending but, frankly, not on jobs. All government spending ...
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• News from 1930: “Playing politics at the expense of human misery”

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 683
  This comes from the Blog News from 1930 which tells us what happened on this day in 1930 according to the Wall Street Journal: Pres. Hoover criticizes wide variety of extensive relief measures introduced in Congress as “playing politics at the expense of human misery”; says prosperity can’t be restored by ...
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• American People Want Stimulus Package Canceled And Oppose Bailouts To State Governments!

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 474
      “Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.”  ~Ludwig von Mises, Planned Chaos, pagew 20-21    “We shall not grow wiser ...
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• Government and GDP

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  By Chris Edwards The expansion in government and poor state of the economy got me thinking about how government growth is reflected in measured gross domestic product. So here is a wonky look at the treatment of government in the Bureau of Economic Analysis GDP data. Data notes: By “government,” I mean total ...
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• Senator Barbara Mikulski wants men to pay for women’s mammograms

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 565
  She doesn’t say it explicitly, but when Barbara Mikulski explains that her health care bill amendment would  “ guarantee women access to preventive health care screenings and care at no cost … [by requiring] all health plans to cover comprehensive women’s preventive care … with no copayments” it ...
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• Planned Parenthood Has Money Troubles?

  
  Vital Signs — Authority: 145
  Can Planned Parenthood, which made $85 million last year and has a zealous pro-abortion friend in the White House who has promised to help them glean even more, actually be in some financial difficulty ? Mauricio Roman writing in Inside Catholic says yes. ( Hat tip: LifeNews.com )
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• The TARP slush fund debate

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 683
  Paul Krugman and Bruce Bartlett debated on PBS whether President Obama should divert money from the TARP program to a jobs program to combat high unemployment (Hat tip Mark Thoma ).  Here is the video and a transcript of part of the exchange. I have bolded the parts with which I agree: JUDY WOODRUFF :Paul ...
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