Bernie Madoff was sentenced last week and will spend the rest of his life in prison for defrauding investors of approximately $13 Billion. The media bellowed that his investment scheme the biggest financial crime in history. But, the annual interest on the Obama “stimulus” or Recovery Act, $787 Billion in borrowed funds, will be at [...]
President Obama and the media make extravagant promises of incredible benefits if we The People submit to permanent expansion of government’s power and cost: If the government borrows and spends Trillions on health care now it will save Trillions later. If we let government take over health care you can keep your existing health insurance [...]
Several readers have asked Why we report on the Obama Stimulus so often. President Obama seeks to radically change America. To sell these ideas he and the media claim government experts can achieve near-miraculous results by borrowing and spending trillions on government intervention in the private economy. Since the Stimulus was the Administration’s first adventure [...]
President Obama’s first Borrow-and-Spend initiative, was the Trillion Dollar… “BIG Stimulus to Save Jobs” (BS2SJ). Obama Promises jobs but delivers only massive debt and loss of liberty. Congress passed the BS2SJ on February 13, Obama’s 24th day in office. Obama and the media hyped the BS2SJ, the largest spending bill in history, as an urgent [...]
President Obama’s Huge Stimulus Bill that was hyped as so urgent it had to be passed in a few hours, before any Senator or Congressman had read its thousand pages, when the one and only copy still had hand written corrections, cross-outs, and margin notes. Why the urgency? The Administration and the media insisted that [...]
August 27, 2009 updated chart. Click on the chart to go to the latest news and commentary from Liberty Works. MARCH 13, 2009 Last month, when President Obama and the Democrats were rushing frantically to pass a bill authorizing the government to borrow and spend an unprecedented $800 Billion, the President used the word “catastrophe” [...]
In a March 9 Wall Street Journal Guest Editorial, Obama Economic Adviser Laura D’Andrea Tyson attempted to overcome growing opposition to ObamaNomics, by rehashing many of the tricks and deceptions the President has used to build support by targeting people who are too busy with life’s challenges to check the data and the history and [...]
In the campaign to pass the stimulus the Administration conducted a full throttle media blitz claiming it was too urgent to allow time for normal Congressional hearings, deliberation or debate. The final vote came before any member could read the thousand page legislation, when the only copy still had hundreds of hand written corrections, cross-outs [...]
President Obama’s Fiscal Responsibility Summit bamboozled the stupefied national media into reporting on deceptive campaign-style hype as if it were a serious policy meeting. Chutzpah (pronounced and sometimes spelled “hutzpah”) is a Yiddish term meaning shameless, brazen temerity, combined with contempt for the intelligence of others. Perhaps the most famous description of Chutzpah came from [...]
Written in a few hours by sixteen people, and hurling a Trillion in borrowed funds and interest at politically favored programs, unions and projects, The Stimulus is promoted as a bold, urgent offensive to “create or save” 3 million jobs. If you dare to question this baseless assertion you’re accused of being “against jobs.” Even [...]
