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...commander-in-chief: Herbert Hoover. Hoover, the man whose infamous attempt to balance the budget in the face of skyrocketing unemployment and a deepening recession pushed the American economy over the edge into the Great Depression, is hardly a good example for our new president. Obama’s plans will not necessarily launch our economy into a depression. He is attempting to slash the deficit, not eliminate it, and there are certainly wasteful government expenditures worth cutting. However, it is important that Obama’s message to the American people is an unwavering pledge to end the economic...
...recession: Keynesian economics holds that the government should counter recessions with more, not less, spending. Given the sizeable federal spending that the administration has already approved, however, this announcement serves as a way to reassure the country that, despite the recession, the administration still has a long-term economic plan and is still committed to responsible fiscal policy...
Against Princeton on Friday, the team was shooting a dismal 14.8 percent after the first half.The Crimson adjusted to the situation, changing to a more physical game plan to overcome a 22-point deficit. Harvard looked for its big players and Markley responded...
Virginia Beach and neighboring Chesapeake, two cities with a combined population greater than 600,000 that get part of their water from Pittsylvania streams, are alarmed at talk of lifting the moratorium. Virginia Beach opposes the mining plan outright, while Chesapeake has expressed grave concerns to state officials. Opponents are also skeptical of the job claims: in all the uranium mines out west, which produced 4.5 million pounds of uranium in 2007, there are fewer than 400 miners employed, according to statistics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration...
Toward that end, Cantor - the No. 2 House Republican behind minority leader John Boehner - has been busy of late. The party's chief vote counter whipped his colleagues into united opposition of President Barack Obama's stimulus plan. Taking on the relatively unpopular congressional Democrats is one thing, but flagrantly opposing a wildly popular new President is risky, especially when any payoff could take years. But the move energized the GOP for the first time in a long while, inspiring six Republican governors - all rumored 2012 wannabes like Cantor himself - to threaten to decline some of the stimulus money. (Read...