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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Hurry Up and Pass Stimulus, Obama Says


“President Obama’s economic message to Congress: Step on the gas! Obama detoured from a long-planned White House announcement on auto emissions to sound fresh alarms Monday about ‘the deepening economic crisis.’ He implored lawmakers to hustle approval of his $825 billion economic rescue plan, while taking pains to point out he had ‘inherited’ the financial mess.” (New York Daily News, Tuesday)

Don’t think — spend!

FEE Timely Classic
“Spending for Spending’s Sake” by John Semmens


  • 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.