Posts Tagged ‘stimulus’
White House Memos Highlight Basic Flaw in Central Planning
Recently, the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza released White House memos showing President Obama’s advisers contemplated multiple options for the original so-called stimulus package. The President’s advisers, including economists Larry Summers and Christ... [Read More]
President Obama Forgets – Policy Reminder #6
President Obama Forgets he said that his $800 billion stimulus boondoggle would “save or create 3.5 million jobs” and keep unemployment below 8%. But AFP activists want to remind President Obama that the unemployment rate has never been bel... [Read More]
President Obama Forgets – Policy Reminder #1
President Obama Forgets he signaled a new corruption-free era in Washington. But AFP activists want to remind him of that he wasted taxpayer money on a green jobs scam at Solyndra, gave preferential health care exemptions to his political allies and fu... [Read More]
AFP-Nebraska Statement on Ben Nelson Retirement
"It is not surprising that with votes for government-run health care, the failed Obama stimulus bill, and Big Labor policies at the NLRB that Sen. Nelson has decided he cannot defend his Senate record to Nebraskans," said state director Brad Stevens. W... [Read More]
It’s Time for Congress to Stop Paying People Not to Work
remote host "static.taxcutsforall.com" not allowedBy Phil Kerpen and Adam Berkland Published December 05, 2011 | FoxNews.com Do we really want paying people not to work for 99 weeks – nearly two years – to be a permanent feature of the American economic system? Is that what the American people vot... [Read More]
New Study Proves We Can’t Spend Our Way to Prosperity
remote host "static.taxcutsforall.com" not allowedWhen stumping for his stimulus plan in 2009, President Obama promised that if the giant $800 billion dollar stimulus was passed unemployment would not go above 8 percent and we would “save or create” 3 million jobs. Yet the latest data from the Bur... [Read More]
Obama’s “Job’s Bill” Packed with Dangerous Protectionism
With near double-digit unemployment, plummeting business confidence, and general economic malaise the recession has a lot of the characteristics of the Great Depression. Now the President’s so-called American Jobs Act adds a robust bout of protection... [Read More]
Obama’s New Stimulus Calls Unemployment "Discrimination"
In addition to extending more free services to the unemployed, Obama’s new stimulus plan seeks to apply the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to “discrimination” against unemployed job seekers. This isn’t any typical civil rights cause. Out-of-work ind... [Read More]
Taking Down Socialist “Tax Fairness Rhetoric
Who decides what is fair? "The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution, which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly [Read More]
A Glimpse at the "Government" in "Big Government"
Among the massive amounts of government handouts included in the jobs bill, the Clinton-era Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 is playing a vital role in the implementation of the President’s proposed programs. The WIA expanded state and local bu... [Read More]
