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Obama Campaigns for Economic Package on Capital Hill

Posted By Sheldon Richman

“Two weeks before assuming power, President-elect Barack Obama took his economic recovery package to Capitol Hill on Monday and worked to build a bipartisan coalition to endorse his plan of tax cuts and new spending with an urgent appeal ‘to break the momentum of this recession.’” (New York Times ^[1], Tuesday)

Still trying to turn stone into bread.

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“What Spending and Deficits Do” ^[2] by Henry Hazlitt

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[1] New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/us/politics/06stimulus.html?_r=1&hp

[2] “What Spending and Deficits Do”: http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/what-spending-and-deficits-do/

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