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...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. And that has not been the program of this administration...
...think his PPIP [public-private-investment program] is a smart move in getting the toxic assets off the balance sheets of banks? The premise that private investors would purchase these toxic assets on the assumption that as time passes, the value of these toxic assets will improve - I don't believe that. What the government is trying to do is to induce private purchase of these assets by subsidizing them...
There's much debate over proposed health-care reforms. Is Obama on the right track? The trouble with Obama's plan is that he has no concept of the cost that he will be imposing on the economy if his program is actually enacted. He's spending money with the stimulus program - all kinds of programs - and he's always able to give excuses on why the money should be spent. Yet despite all of his rhetoric, Obama isn't really taking care of the budget ... I don't think the government's job is to provide health care...
...away from the children, most eyes in the auditorium were fixed on the three in the front row next to their grandparents Katherine and Joe Jackson. Seven-year-old Prince Michael II, known as Blanket, held a Michael Jackson doll. Eldest son Michael Joseph Jr., 12, held the memorial program and chewed gum vigorously. Paris kept close to her grandmother...
Should government-subsidized health coverage pay for abortion procedures? For more than three decades, that question had seemed pretty much settled. The Hyde Amendment, passed by the House on Sept., 30, 1976, forbade Medicaid - a program for poor people, jointly administered by Washington and the states, which had, up till then, paid for about 300,000 abortions a year - from using any federal money to pay for the procedure. All but 17 states followed suit, banning use of their own funds as well; with a few modifications, the ban has stood up ever since...