Cato Institute by Daniel J. Ikenson This article appeared in The American on November 21, 2008. One day before the CEOs of General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler told the Senate Banking Committee that their industry faced imminent collapse without an emergency infusion of $25 billion, a new automobile assembly plant opened for business in Greensburg, [...]
Archive for November 24th, 2008
24 Nov
Clues Obama Won’t Govern Center-Right
By Robert Creamer November 24th, 2008 Submitted by OurFuture.org Staff Should progressives beware? Has Barack Obama suckered them into supporting a President who will really govern from the “center-right”? The short answer is no. Since November 4th there has been growing protestation from right wing intellectuals that America is really a “center-right” nation and that [...]
24 Nov
Barack Obama reveals two-year plan to create 2.5m jobs
Spending programme to target roads, schools and renewable energy Barack Obama has outlined his plan to create 2.5m jobs in his first two years in office with an ambitious spending programme on roads, schools and and renewable energy. In his weekly internet address the United States president-elect warned that the US was “facing an economic [...]
24 Nov
A New New Deal
thinkprogress.org ECONOMY A New New Deal When President-elect Barack Obama officially introduces his economic team today, he is also expected to lay out his vision for a “massive fiscal stimulus program.” While estimates of its size vary — from $300 billion to over $700 billion — the expected stimulus package is now almost certain to [...]
24 Nov
UNDER THE RADAR
thinkprogress.org ADMINISTRATION — WOODWARD: BUSH ‘DOESN’T LIKE HOMEWORK’ SUCH AS ‘READING,’ ‘GETTING BRIEFED,’ OR ‘HAVING A DEBATE’: On the Chris Matthews Show yesterday, Matthews argued that one of the major differences between President Bush and President-elect Barack Obama is the fact that Obama is intellectually curious. Matthews played a 2004 clip of Washington Post reporter [...]
24 Nov
Obama Announces ‘Economic Recovery Plan’ to Create 2.5 Million Jobs
Posted by Staff, AlterNet at 9:31 AM on November 22, 2008. “It is time to act. As the next president of the United States, I will.” “It is time to act. As the next president of the United States, I will.”From CNN: American workers will rebuild the nation’s roads and bridges, modernize its schools and [...]
24 Nov
5 Myths About Our Ailing Health-Care System
By Shannon Brownlee and Ezekiel Emanuel Sunday, November 23, 2008 The Washington Post With Congress ready to spend $700 billion to prop up the U.S. economy, enacting health-care reform may seem about as likely as the Dow hitting 10,000 again before the end of the year. But it may be more doable than you think, [...]
