Below is a grim announcement from a Republican member of the Committee on Ways and Means. Of course you should always read these announcements carefully - when it comes to numbers and statistics, people on Capitol Hill really play with our heads. But you might want to click below and [...]
This newly-built facility in West Virginia appears to meet all of the requirements for the proposed State Department training center. Why does the Federal Government want to build another one here in Queen Anne’s County? Need to spend that stimulus money I guess.
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Eagle Peak Rock and Paving created and saved 32 jobs thanks to an $8 million federal stimulus contract to repair Glacier Point Road in Yosemite National Park.
But you won’t find that on Recovery.gov, the government’s Web site for tracking stimulus money.
You also won’t find the eight employees [...]
Hopefully any new plan will have a better ROI than the current stimulus package. Economic analyst Ed Yardeni runs the numbers:
The Obama Administration is touting that their stimulus program has saved or created 640,329 jobs since it was enacted back in February through the end of October. [...]
$70 Million in Stimulus Funds will create hundreds of local construction jobs, 500 permanent positions
Washington, DC – Business and civic leaders in Queen Anne’s County are praising the announcement earlier this week that the General Services Administration (GSA) and the U.S. Department of State have chosen the county as [...]
CBO: Stimulus Has Generated Between 600,000 and 1.6 Million New Jobs
12/01/09
In a report released yesterday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office stated that the $787 billion stimulus package approved in February has created or saved between 600,000 and 1.6 million American jobs, reduced unemployment and increased the Gross [...]
First, in the name of the holiday, the giving.
Food banks and soup kitchens are more stocked than usual this year, thanks to an extra $100 million in resources from the stimulus, on top of the $250 million originally budgeted by the federal government, reports The New York Times. [...]
Earlier this month it was announced the unemployment rate hit 10.2 percent, reaching double-digits for the first time in 26 years. Though the rate had been expected to top 10 percent for some time due to our anemic economic recovery – and despite billions of dollars in stimulus money – [...]
A bungling armed thug shrouded in dark clothing and a mask, chased and fired on 10 employees fleeing a Jiffy Lube in Elkridge during the dinner hour Wednesday. No one was injured in the cowardly attempted robbery and the thief scurried off without his intended misbegotten stimulus funds.
Police were called [...]
Is Congress, behind on Barack Obama's deadlines on health care and cap-and-trade legislation, and flummoxed by the failure of the stimulus package to hold unemployment below 10.2 percent, prepared to address the immigration issue next year?
[...]The editorial page is writing an editorial about Maryland's slow take-off on trying to get Race to the Top funds from the U.S. Department of Education. If successful, Maryland would get as much as $250 million in stimulus money next year, but the state appears to have been slow to [...]
Here’s an easy one, but you need to start someplace. It may anger the voters in Maryland’s 18th Congressional District but that’s the price paid for speaking out. Oh wait, Maryland has only 8 Congressional districts? Well then, carry on Jim:
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jim Rutledge today called for a [...]
FOREST HILL, Maryland — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jim Rutledge today called for a comprehensive independent audit of the trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ program created and passed earlier this year by Congressional Democrats and demanded heightened accountability for taxpayer dollars spent to date on the government-run program.
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The Government Accountability Office released a report (PDF) today criticizing the quality of the data used to calculate how many jobs have been generated by the stimulus.
Welcome to the club, GAO. Here are some of the highlights:
Nearly 4,000 reports filed [...]
