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Are GOPers Deliberately Lying About the Stimulus?

By David Corn
From politicsdaily.com
February 19th, 2010

politicsdaily.com — For days, Republicans derided the stimulus, which they had voted against, as a flop that has achieved nothing. And throughout the week, the Democratic Party sent out e-mails to reporters documenting instances when leading congressional Republicans who denounced the stimulus have taken credit for stimulus-funded projects in their districts or states. Beyond this rank hypocrisy -- which is par for the course in Washington -- the issue is whether the Republican Party is knowingly pushing a lie.

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Chamber of Commerce Sides with Foreign Embassies Against Buy American

By Tula Connell
June 17, 2009

There they go again. Those running the show at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are attacking again the Buy American provision in the economic stimulus package. more »

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What's In The Stimulus Package, Anyway?

By Sally Kohn
February 19, 2009

Weren't you wondering? Well, I was, so a colleague and I took to the streets of New York City and asked folks we met to help us explain some of the worthwhile public spending programs in the stimulus package President Obama just signed into law. more »

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Senate Republicans: Please Help

By Sally Kohn
February 3, 2009

The other day as I walked to work in Manhattan, I passed an elderly man standing in the street holding a Styrofoam donation cup and a paper plate on which he had written: “Please help.” Only please was spelled without the “a”, a reminder that the economic crisis we’re in has much deeper roots than many conservatives would have us think. more »

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Stimulus For All?

By Sally Kohn
January 14, 2009

The staggering gulf between the rich in America and everyone else is the root cause of our financial crisis. We can only stimulate the economy if we solve inequality.

There would have been no sub-prime mortgage crisis had there not been poor families with unstable jobs to trick with bad loans. more »

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