Oil-rich Norway's coalition government announced a 20 billion kroner ($2.9 billion) stimulus package on Monday intended to dampen the impact of the global financial crisis with tax cuts and increased spending.
Thailand's Cabinet approved a 115 billion baht ($3.3 billion) economic stimulus package Tuesday that it hopes will shore up an economy battered by the global downturn and recent political turmoil.
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso on Friday announced a new 23 trillion yen ($255 billion) stimulus package to shore up his country's economy, with measures to spur employment, encourage lending and inject capital into financial markets.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday he plans to spend his way out of recession with a euro26 billion ($33 billion) stimulus plan designed to boost growth by 0.6 percentage points in 2009.
China's $586 billion stimulus package is its "biggest contribution to the world," Premier Wen Jiabao said Monday, as hopes rose that heavy spending on construction and other projects would help support global growth by fueling demand for imported machinery and raw materials.
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso announced a 27 trillion yen ($275 billion) stimulus package to shore up the world's No. 2 economy Thursday, vowing to dispel fears over the global financial crisis with expanded credits for small businesses and a cash payback to every household.
The success of the federal $150 billion emergency economic stimulus plan will hinge on whether American consumers do what they do best — spend, spend, spend.
The Obama ruse is now in full swing with his pennies from heaven being waved in front of all state governors in return for selling their souls to socialism and committing to programs that in the long run will offer nothing but massive debt to state budgets.
One week ago, Republicans celebrated their "unity" in opposing President Obama's economic stimulus bill, which they claimed was flawed because of its heavy emphasis on spending.
In a short period of months, the entire system of global capitalism has screeched to a halt. No one knows what happens next. The worldwide economic meltdown has sent the wheels spinning off the project of building a single, business-friendly global economy.
I would agree with Gov. Granholm and Gov. Swartzenagger that if the Republican governors do not want their share of the stimulus funding, then others should be able to take part in their share.
Well, President Obama this week said he was "open to any idea, whether it comes from a Democrat or a Republican or a vegetarian." So, here comes People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals with its idea: Put the National School Lunch Program on a veggie diet.
While the $787 billion stimulus bill might help avert draconian budget cuts by deeply stressed states, Republican governors clashed over just how much of the stimulus money to accept.
An outstanding look at socialism in depth in light of the U.S. Government's recent actions. A must read for people who have heard about the U.S. moving toward socialism but do not necessarily have a grasp on what that might mean to them.
Louisiana Gov. Jindal refusing $98 million of the stimulus money headed for his state, that amounts to under 2% of the total money Louisiana will be receiving.
It was meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill. Period. But it has been taken as something else - as a depiction of President Obama, as a thinly veiled expression of racism.
Stimulus Counter Proposal This morning a friend (a political professional) called:
Judge Naploitano speaks with Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, and others on the "Stimulus" package, crisis politics, the economy, and gold.
Scoring Political Points from whom? These Governors are rejecting help to show up "evil Obama"? Who would approve of such a thing other than people who want back in power so they can continue bilking the public.
Pro Publica does a quick & dirty on recovery.gov. Worth reading and following the various links.
Congressional Republicans will rue their legacy of deep indifference at a time of true national emergency, one that makes George W. Bush's far more costly war on terror now seem an absurdly irrelevant exercise.
NEW YORK - Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has been sent a unique message from those opposed to the stimulus bill.
What do Republicans want? Because for the life of me, I cannot figure it out.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a potential 2012 GOP presidential candidate, has suggested his state may not be interested in all of the roughly $4 billion allotted to it in the economic stimulus package to be signed by President Obama today.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed into law a $787-billion US stimulus package his administration hopes will help lift the economy out of recession.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down more than 200 points, or nearly 3 percent. The S&P; 500 shed about 4 percent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost more than 3 percent.
Ron Paul on the stimulus package, tax cuts, domestic spending, Republican hypocrisy, and foreign policy.
Satyagraha - a Ghandi developed problem solving leadership strategy used by Obama to get his desired legislation passed.
There is John McCain, the Republicans' failed presidential candidate, as incapable since the election as he was before. There is John Boehner, the party's leader in the House and Ohio's own George Hamilton (the tan, not the affair with his stepmother when he was 12).
The president is half right. We cannot do nothing. We face the most serious threat since 1929, and only the state has the means to do something and do it quickly. Where he is half wrong is in the nature of the something: The stimulus package is misbegotten.
Stimulus package? It's just a nick name. It sounds like that term came from the same ones who incorrectly use the phrase, "a people".