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Stealing from the Next Generation

President Obama has a new economic plan – to borrow another fifty billion for more ‘Stimulus’ spending. Haven’t we already seen this movie?  Wasn’t Obama’s first eight hundred billion dollar “stimulus” plan (which my opponent, Bob Etheridge voted for) supposed to create three million jobs? The cold reality is since Obama and Etheridge started borrowing [...]

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My Labor Day Message

This may be the toughest Labor Day many of us have faced in our lifetimes. Unemployment continues to rise, up again last month. Obama’s Stimulus Plan (which Bob Etheridge supported enthusiastically) has failed. The deficit (and spending by Congress) is more out of control than ever. The Obama administration is even spending foreign aid (Bob [...]

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More Jobs Lost

The Labor Department announced another fifty four thousand jobs were lost last month and unemployment increased again. In reaction, President Obama called for another stimulus. The more things change, the more they remain the same. Our economy won’t change until Washington stops spending money we don’t have. We were told that if we passed the [...]

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One More Government Job – Imam Rauf

President Obama and Congressman Etheridge have created at least one job. Obama’s State Department has work for Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Muslim cleric who wants to build the Mosque overlooking Ground Zero.  They are sending him out as an ambassador to the Muslim world on a trip that reportedly includes stops in Saudi Arabia, [...]

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Etheridge’s “Main Street before Wall Street” Rhetoric

For those who did not receive the slick card mailer Bob Etheridge sent at taxpayer expense last week, he had the following to say about his record on putting “Main Street before Wall Street:” Tough new Wall Street reforms will rein in Big Banks, and their excessive bonuses, end bailouts and stop “too big to [...]

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