Tag: stimulus

The 2009 so-called “stimulus” passed by the Congress was one of the biggest budget-busting, deficit-growing, big-government, cronyism-enabling scams to ever come out of our capital city.  It appears that BOTH major party candidates in North Carolina’s US Senate race — and some close to them…

      U.S. Senator Richard  Burr (R-NC) published a great piece the other day in The Charlotte Observer on the evils of BarryO’s stimulus: Three years ago, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Investment Act, better known as the stimulus bill, into law,…

          Economist Paul Gregory has an excellent piece on Forbes.com  slapping down the notion put forth by BarryO and his allies that MORE government spending is needed to turn the economy around: Bill Keller, the former editor of the New YorkTimes, has…

        The Einsteins in Congress are at it again.  We have a $17 trillion federal debt, two wars, record  unemployment, and a devastating recession.  These geniuses think they have the answer to fix the country’s economic woes:  federal subsidies for purchasing diapers….

  Environmentalist rhetoric about the wonder of ‘green’ environmentally-friendly jobs is not matching up to reality.  The Washington Post, not exactly a conservative propaganda rag, has pointed out that, just two years into its existence, BarryO’s green jobs agenda has become an expensive failure: A $38.6…

  Barry-O is flitting around the country spinning a yarn about how EXACTLY 153 bridges will fall if Congress doesn’t approve his “American Jobs Act” – which actually hits struggling American taxpayers with 14 new or higher taxes: There are fourteen new or higher taxes…

  What’s next — plague, locusts? North Carolina has been hit with more of its fair share of misfortune lately.  Not just a hurricane and an earthquake.   This week we got back to back visits from Barry-O and his sidekick “Little Joe.”  Why us?…