Posts Tagged ‘Stimulus’
Newswire: February 16, 2009
No more car czar, says the Obama administration. GM and Chrysler will be supervised by Geithner. Doesn’t he have enough on his plate? – – – – – States and cities scramble for stimulus dollars. Except South Carolina? – – – – – Metro ‘in final negotiations‘ for most of the LRT expansion. Maryland Transit [...]
Stimulus, States, and Senators
Some thoughts on the upcoming stimulus package: 1. What’s the rush? I know people are panicky about the economy and want to see drastic action. I have no problem with drastic action. What I have a problem with is this rush to spend that clearly is going to result in billions of dollars wasted. Why [...]
Craving another fix?
This, from Clusterstock.com, was excellent: The Republicans have so little power in Washington right now that they’re grasping at the thinnest reeds in hopes of influencing the final stimulus bill. It’s going to be real tough to add substantially more tax breaks to the package, especially since so many people are convinced that we got [...]
Light (Crude) Reading
Houston Tomorrow published this summary of the long discussed stimulus bill that Obama plans to pass as soon as he takes office. They the following: Relatively speaking, the stimulus bill marks a tenfold increase in transit spending, perhaps the biggest sign yet that mass transit is becoming politically popular. That’s good news. – – – [...]
From the Newswire: January 12, 2008
Bulgaria is freezing its collective buns off… and mad at Russia to boot. I wonder how many political points we could pick up by sending about 1 million electric heaters to places like Bulgaria? That sounds like good economic stimulus to me, actually exporting something… That said, apparently the gas will resume flowing pretty soon, [...]