Category Archives: porkulus

Answers? You want Answers?

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Rockport Conservative

From ABC News blog The Note: Key House Dem Wants Answers on Recovery.gov Errors Hours after ABC’s Jonathan Karl reported on government data showing hundreds of created jobs and millions of dollars spent in congressional districts that don’t exist, House … Continue reading →

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Jobs Report-How Very Inflated

Posted on November 7, 2009 by Rockport Conservative

Don Surber wraps it up in this Daily Mail article. Newspapers rise and fact-check The Won It began with the Associated Press: “But the 30,000 figure is overstated by thousands — at the very least by nearly 5,000, or one … Continue reading →

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The AP says Administration "Overstated" Stimulus Jobs

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Rockport Conservative

Can you believe it? Not that it was overstated, that Another reason that causes bankruptcy amongst individuals is their credit card brand viagra australia debt. And when a man is in better physical shape, he also may have more stamina, … Continue reading →

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White House Readies a Stealth Stimulus

Posted on October 19, 2009 by RayH

I love it when the mainstream left-laying* media points out the truth. See the TIME online article here — calling it for what it is — Stealth Stimulus. The Obamam Administration is not going to like that blatant truth-in-media behavior. … Continue reading →

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My grandson is in Afghanistan and they did WHAT???

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Rockport Conservative

From the Washington Times: U.S. troop funds diverted to pet projects Study finds $2.6 billion taken from guns and ammunition Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts … Continue reading →

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the General Electric Political Action Committee

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Rockport Conservative

From the Washington Examiner:Leaked e-mail shows how GE puts the government to work for GEby Timothy P. Carney The intersection between GE’s interests and government action is clearer than ever,” General Electric Vice Chairman John G. Rice wrote in an … Continue reading →

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Daschle’s Dealings

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Rockport Conservative

From the New York Times:Daschle Has Ear of White House and Industryby David D. Kirkpatrick Six months have passed since the morning when Tom Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader, under fire for not paying certain taxes, called President Obama … Continue reading →

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Are we "Reapeating the Mistakes of Japan’s Lost Decade?"

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Rockport Conservative

An editorial in the Washington Examiner says we are. Here’s something that ought to scare the daylights out of everybody: After Japan’s stock and real estate markets collapsed in 1991, government officials made a series of disastrous policy decisions that … Continue reading →

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Links for Monday

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Rockport Conservative

Unintended consequences this would be funny if it didn’t cause us so much trouble and expense in the first place. It is just pressure to take us back to horse and buggy days, and we don’t want that kind of … Continue reading →

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