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Stimulus Runs Out, So States Beg Congress For More Money; Will They Get It?
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A huge chunk of stimulus money was wasted paying union salaries instead of fixing budgets. Now states have are begging for more as noted by the Wall Street Journal in States Hope for a Rich Uncle . Strapped states, facing up to $180 billion in budget deficits in the next fiscal year, are going hat in hand to Washington. California wants $6.9 billion in federal money for the next fiscal year, and Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says ...
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While the U.S. is not quite there (yet), a growing number of countries have reached the point where their ability to pay for the fallout from the financial crisis and past policy mistakes with loans and funny money is a challenge. So, as the New York Times notes in Struggling Governments Get Creative to Raise Income, they are resorting to plan B (or is it plan C, or D, or E?). PARIS — France, promising to improve the environment, is ...
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The two pending health bills are about health care and expanding health insurance coverage. They’re not about fiscal stimulus, nor about building highways, hiring teachers, or cutting State taxes. Right? Then why does the second health care bill provide sixteen States and DC with billions of dollars in unrestricted funding, spending which would produce no change in health insurance enrollment? According to the description of ...
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Well, it passed! Oklahoma is no longer OK for Illegal Aliens .. It seems that at least one state has decided to take matters into it's own hands, since the Federal Government keeps dragging it's feet on this Illegal alien stuff and even reversing popular opinion on how to handle it. BRAVO OKLAHOMA ! (Too bad all politicians don't have the guts' to do this) Every State needs to do this!!!! Oklahoma's Governor Brad Henry has ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) Congressional budget scorekeepers say President Barack Obama's health care bill would reduce the federal deficit by $138 billion over 10 years. The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday the $940-billion legislation would provide coverage to 32 million people now uninsured by 2016, bring the total number of insured to about 95 percent of eligible Americans. The budget office said the measure would continue to reduce the ...
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Maryland's budget deficit is a long-term problem that requires a long-term solution. Over the past three years, the O'Malley/Brown administration has made little to no progress in addressing the state's budget deficit. Increased spending, a failed slots bill, the largest tax increase in our state's history and federal bailouts make for a dismal track record. The Department of Legislative Services projects a cumulative deficit of more than ...
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Budget office: Dems health care bill cuts deficit WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional budget scorekeepers say President Barack Obama's health care bill would reduce the federal deficit by $138 billion over 10 years. The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday the $940-billion legislation would provide coverage to 32 million people now uninsured by 2016, bring the total number of insured to about 95 percent of eligible Americans. The budget ...
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