Greeneyeshade Blog
The Stimulus Masquerade
Would it surprise you to learn that as of right now job losses have returned to their pre-recession levels? Would it also surprise you to know that, in the 2001 recession, employers cut 3.1 million more jobs than have been lost at the same point in the current recession? Both are true and the question I’m sure most of you have right now, is ‘how is that possible with unemployment numbers still so high and potentially rising?’ The answer lies in what the current administration and Congress are not doing this time around.
A Budget Boondoggle – Livable Communities?
Yesterday, the House Budget Committee bestowed yet another one of the coveted “Budget Boondoggle Awards” on the Obama Administration and, as I suppose there won’t be any acceptance speeches made at the White House, I thought I’d share the news with you.
At a Loss
Today, President Obama convened the first meeting of his ‘Fiscal Commission.’ The commission, according to the White House’s website is tasked with “…identifying policies to improve the fiscal situation in the medium term and to achieve fiscal sustainability over the long run.”
Expensive Lights
The sheer amount of spending that has gone on in this town for the preponderance of this year and the last is simply staggering. Whether it was the stimulus bill at the beginning of 2009 or the health care bill at the beginning of 2010, and everything in between, most Americans understand that the spending levels are simply out of control…and are continuing in ways that are both big and small. But I assure you, even the instances that receive less media attention, they are every bit as egregious.
Punting Decisions
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