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The “Stimulus”

Obama Stimulus Turns Three: What Has It Achieved?

http://news.investors.com/article/601526/201202171112/obama-economic-stimulus-turns-three.htm

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Three Years Later, Some of the Stimulus’ Odder Projects: Basket Weaving, Polka Training, Rats on Meth

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/three-years-later-some-stimulus-odder-projects-basket-weaving-polka-training-rats-meth

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Stimulus money meant to help 400 Detroit job-seekers reportedly helped 2

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/07/stimulus-money-meant-to-help-400-detroit-job-seekers-reportedly-helped-2/

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Shovel Ready in San Fran: $205,075 to ‘Translocate’ One Shrub from Path of Stimulus Project

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/shovel-ready-san-fran-205075-translocate-one-shrub-path-stimulus-project

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NH Stimulus- $985 million for 845 jobs

http://newhampshire.watchdog.org/10389/nh-stimulus-985-million-for-845-jobs/print/

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Obama Administration Outsourced Jobs with Stimulus Funding

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-administration-outsourced-jobs-stimulus-funding

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Whatever its guise, government-granted privilege is an extraordinarily destructive force. It misdirects resources, impedes genuine economic progress, breeds corruption, and undermines the legitimacy of both the government and the private sector.

http://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/The-Pathology-of-Privilege-Final_0.pdf

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Feds have more than 1,900 investigations open into alleged stimulus wrongdoing

http://www.washingtonguardian.com/stimulating-investigation

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Employees at Stimulus-Funded Battery Plant Play Cards and Board Games Because There’s No Work

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/10/19/employees-stimulus-funded-battery-factory-playing-cards-and-board-gam

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Quarter-billion-dollar stimulus grant creates just 400 jobs

Bankrupt energy business joins list of federally-backed flops

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/29/hiring-stats-elusive-in-latest-energy-failure/

[ASND would like to ask readers if they actually know how much a “quarter billion dollars is.]

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Despite the tripling of the Fed’s balance sheet to $3 trillion, zero rates since late 2008, and four straight years of spending $1 trillion more than the federal government earns, the best we can forecast for the next decade is average growth.  This problem of stimulus coupled with anemic performance may be with us for a very long time.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/03/worse_than_the_depression.html

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Feds ignore rules and use stimulus cash to buy Chinese solar panels

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/17/lambasted-chinese-solar-panels-placed-on-governmen/

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GreenStimulus Money Funds Chinese Tech Advancement

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/green-stimulus-money-funds-chinese-tech-advancement/print/

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The Five Biggest Failures From President Obama’s Stimulus Law

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/02/17/the-five-biggest-failures-from-president-obamas-stimulus-law

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