Tags: Deficit + Deficit spending + Economy + Stimulus + Taxes + Tea Party + Treasury
Today the Governors Association will meet with President Obama to ask for help. State revenue coffers are empty are below budget given to the longevity of the Great Recession. For this fiscal budget year ending in October, despite deep cuts, states still are running deficits. And according to the Govenors’ survey fiscal years 2011 and [...]
February 22, 2010 - Economy - 0 Comments
Tags: Barney Frank + Deficit + Deficit spending + financial reform + obama + Treasury
The Republican Party has annouced its strategy for 2010: Identify the issues that unite the GOP caucus but devide the Democrats and then use them to drive a wedge between the White House and Congressional Democrats. Meantime President Obama signed into law
February 14, 2010 - Economy - 0 Comments
Tags: Bailout + Banks + Deficit spending + Economy + Markets + Politics + Treasury
The time has come for the world to examine the economic system of Capitalism in order to reform it, thereby preventing its undesireable consequences– ‘too big to fail’ monstrosities and the eventuality of co-dependence that eschews necessary reform for
December 18, 2009 - Economy, Politics - 0 Comments
Tags: 2010 elections + Deficit spending + Dollar + Economy + financial reform + healthcare reform + obama + Republican
The following is SB’s response to a widely circulated Republican effort to hit below the belt. The email letter that prompted it follows.
Great letter to say America needs to reinvent its character, yet a biased and unfair. What letter did Mr. Estes write when President George Bush and Saudi King Fahd held hands like [...]
December 18, 2009 - Economy, Politics - 0 Comments
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