Drilldown: Opinions

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• $646,214 Per Government Job
• $825B, keep the change

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• 'A climate of terror'
• 'Buy American' provisions offer recipe for retaliation
• 'Fair Trade' Foolishness
• 'Historic' Stimulus Is Egregious Waste
• 'Stimulus' Follies: Pelosi's Poison
• 'We wrote the bill'

1

• 150,000 jobs created? Uh, no

5

• 5 Points on the Critical State of the Economy

A

• A 40-Year Wish List
• A Bad, Necessary Bill
• A big deal on immigration
• A bill too bad even for the Beltway
• A college education for illegal aliens
• A Fiscal Gamble
• A Green Card in Every Pot
• A lame joke becomes reality
• A large stimulus bill for large problems
• A looming fiasco?
• A second chance for immigration
• A wake-up call for the Senate
• A whiff of Smoot-Hawley
• Amnesty Immediate
• Amnesty would be foreign to founders
• Amnesty? What amnesty? Critics substitute fear for facts
• An $800 Billion Mistake
• An overoptimistic stimulus plan
• Approve pact with Colombia

B

• Bad medicine: Stimulus bill is sickening
• Bad politics and urgent remedies
• Bam's spending spree
• Bang for the Bucks
• Better Roses Than Cocaine
• Breaking A Logjam?
• Bush Raises Stakes On Free Trade
• Buy American, Buy Depression

C

• Can't Be Bothered
• Capitulation, from A------ to Z
• Change for the worse
• Cleaner and Faster
• Colombia Free Trade Agreement: A Bad Deal for Everyone Involved
• Colombia Gives Free Trade A Chance
• Colombia Has Earned Its Trade Pact
• Colombia's Case
• Congress finally gets on free trade track
• Congress, priorities and power shifts

D

• Defeat 'em all
• Democratic Stealth Care
• Democrats Talk Sense to Democrats
• Democrats' real boss
• Disappearing Jobs
• Don't Believe the Stimulus Scaremongers
• Don't turn U.S. back on hemispheric allies
• Drop Dead, Colombia
• Drowning by Fire Hose

E

• Empty 'stimulus'
• Enforcement before amnesty
• Exactly How Does Stimulus Work?

F

• Fatal Naivete On Free Trade
• FDR’s Sweater Fable
• Finding a way to salvage America
• First the stimulus, now the hangover
• For real stimulus, fix infrastructure
• Free Trade Sunlight

G

• Get back to work
• Get in Line, Einstein
• Getting to a Colombia Trade Deal
• Getting Tough in Washington
• Ghost of '86 failure haunts bid for immigration reform
• Good Fences
• GOP greets stimulus bill with ‘audacity of nope’
• Government spending can create jobs

H

• He's spending your future
• Herbert Hoover Lives
• How About a Payroll Tax Stimulus?

I

• Immigration debacle
• Immigration horse-trading
• Immigration's bad guys
• Immigration: Status Quo = Hell
• Imperfect stimulus plan is still the best answer
• Impudent citizens got Sen. Lotthorn's goat
• In Defense of Waste

J

• Jobs, now

K

• Keep America Open to Trade
• Keeping Faith With Colombia
• Keynes can't help us now

L

• Look at the Time

M

• Mark Penn's Transgression
• Money for nothing won't grow the economy

N

• New push for 'fair trade' puts U.S. economy at risk
• No protectionism
• No to Bush-Kennedy
• Not all stimulus ideas are created equal

O

• Obama mythology could use some stimulus
• Obama signs first-step bill
• Obama's lethal game of beggar-thy-neighbour
• Obama's Trade Contortions
• Obama’s new deal is the same old blunder
• On the dole again
• On the Edge
• Once the Stimulus Kicks In, the Real Fight Begins
• Out of the Shadows

P

• Pass the Colombia pact
• Pass the Immigration Bill
• Pass the stimulus: Republicans oppose needed aid at their peril
• Pelosi's Bad Faith
• Peru Is In, Now Where's Colombia?
• Politics of payoff
• Poor immigrants end up being expensive
• Protection Racket
• Protectionist Party?

R

• Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics
• Real Stimulus Wouldn't Empty Wallets
• Right On Trade
• Road to dependency
• Roll Over the Republicans
• Rx for Breakdown

S

• Same old immigration song
• Sell America
• Serious mistake to believe the stimulus failed
• Sign the Colombia trade pact
• Silent Amnesty
• Slapping our Latin allies
• Slice the pork from stimulus program
• Sorry, O: 'I Won' Won't Cover This
• Spend money on U.S. goods
• Stalling Free Trade Won't Work
• Stimulated right into being another Europe
• Stimulating Times

• Stimulus aid isn't creating jobs
• Stimulus bill: On the whole, it makes sense
• Stimulus to nowhere
• Stimulus? Yes, some
• Stop the spending sprees

T

• Take Charge
• Tax-Cut Stimulus
• The 'Grand Bargain': Round II
• The Action Americans Need
• The amnesty fraud
• The Chávez Democrats
• The Colombia Trade Stakes
• The deal on immigration
• The Democrats Dither on Trade
• The end of free trade as we know it
• The Entitlement Stimulus
• The fearmongers win again
• The Fierce Urgency of Pork
• The Fiscal Stimulus Will Pay For Itself
• The Fiscal Stimulus, Flawed but Valuable
• The Immigration Deal
• The immigration time-bomb
• The Myth of Amnesty
• The nation needs jobs, not a political agenda
• The New Era of Irresponsibility
• The promise of a Colombia trade pact
• The Republicans' Fatal Misreading of FDR -- and How It Would Worsen The Depression
• The return of economic nationalism
• The Right Stimulus
• The Right Trade Deals With Latin America
• The Same Old Song
• The speech Bush didn't give
• The Stimulus Advances
• The Stimulus Evidence One Year On
• The Stimulus Package Is More Debt We Don't Need
• The Stimulus Tragedy
• The Storm Over Immigration
• The Terrorist Facilitation Act of 2007
• The Truth on Trade
• The US needs its stimulus now
• The US needs its stimulus now
• The wobbly Republicans
• They're not going away
• Things to Like in the Immigration Bill
• Thirty Years Later, a Return to Stagflation
• Time for the Colombian Trade Pact
• Time to confront reality
• Too Little Bang for The Bucks
• Too little in return for stimulus plan
• Trade Double-Cross
• Trade pandering
• Trading Up
• Trading with Colombia

U

• U.S. "Free Trade": Death, Drugs and Despair in Colombia
• Unreal Stimulus

W

• Wake up and smell the trillions in pork
• Wanted: Personal Economic Trainers. Apply at Capitol.
• We won't be fooled again
• What Is Congress Stimulating?
• When Maynard Met Nancy
• Where Free Trade Is Popular
• Why I Support the Stimulus
• Why I was opposed
• Wrong on immigration

Y

• Yes to free trade