Word: bille
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What do you think of President Obama's fiscal stimulus package in helping to turn the economy around? The bill that provided something like $800 billion for spending on government projects was supposed to make people willing to spend their own money. But that hasn't happened. The implicit belief of the Obama Administration is that you needed fiscal stimulus [i.e., more government spending], and that's why they passed this enormous stimulus bill. But from my observation of how, historically, expansions have come to an end and how recovery has happened, it's always in terms of monetary stimulus...
...needs to print more money? An increase in the money supply has historically always motivated people to spend and end a recession. And I don't know if there's any evidence that fiscal stimulus has the same effect on people's habits. All that Obama's fiscal stimulus bill has achieved is to put an enormous fiscal deficit on the Federal Government. (See pictures of the dangers of printing money...
...health-care-reform package produced by Congress will be landmark," the Democratic lawmakers wrote, "and with legislation as important as this, abortion must be addressed clearly in the bill text." Pelosi's office is negotiating with the lawmakers to find some way to accommodate their concerns, but thus far, they haven't found...
Insource had been contracted by Hillel in 2000 to handle its accounting and bill paying duties, and O'Brien was hired by Insource in 2003 to oversee those day to day financial tasks, the release stated...
Harry J. Pierre, a spokesman for the Attorney General's Office, said that O'Brien, who prepared and documented bill payments for the non-profit organization but did not have signatory power over writing checks, allegedly diverted money from the organization's banking account to his own personal account. Pierre said that the organization had used an American Express corporate credit card to pay various expenses, and that the organization's director became aware of the irregularities when American Express called and notified him that the organization's account would be closed due to missed bill payments...