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...least the ones who are listened to in Washington - expressed near unanimous support. This support showed no signs of wavering when the Congressional Budget Office projected Wednesday that even before any new spending, the federal deficit will top $1.2 trillion this year. As Obama summed it up in a speech at George Mason University on Thursday, "There is no doubt that the cost of this plan will be considerable. It will certainly add to the budget deficit in the short term. But equally certain are the consequences of doing too little or nothing at all." (Read Obama's full remarks...
...your hands if you have to, but consulting is 75% listening." - in a speech to Harvard Business School students, HARBUS, March...
...truth, Jobs looked alarmingly thin in his appearances at Apple events during the summer and has not been seen in public lately. On Dec. 30, the gadget site Gizmodo, quoting an inside source, claimed Jobs was too ill to deliver the speech and his health was "rapidly declining," predicting "the inevitable news" would come in the spring...
...economic stimulus package last year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was quick to lay out three important guiding principles: that the provisions be "timely, temporary and targeted." "If we heap too much on top of the package, it will then take us deeply into debt," she warned in a speech on the House floor on Jan. 29, 2008. But now, as Congress gears up to craft a mammoth stimulus package that will dwarf last year's $170 billion bill, those requirements don't seem to be all that binding. (See a bailout report card...
...President-elect Barack Obama admitted as much in a major speech on Thursday, making the case for Congress to act quickly on his plan, dubbed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. "There is no doubt that the cost of this plan will be considerable," he said. "It will certainly add to the budget deficit in the short term. But equally certain are the consequences of doing too little or nothing at all, for that will lead to an even greater deficit of jobs, incomes and confidence in our economy." (Read Obama's full remarks...