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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Obama Campaigns for Economic Package on Capital Hill


“Two weeks before assuming power, President-elect Barack Obama took his economic recovery package to Capitol Hill on Monday and worked to build a bipartisan coalition to endorse his plan of tax cuts and new spending with an urgent appeal ‘to break the momentum of this recession.’” (New York Times, Tuesday)

Still trying to turn stone into bread.

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  • Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.