Word: counters
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...next counter came in a memo to House Republicans from economist and former John McCain adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who wrote, "Jobs keep disappearing ... and the Obama Administration's only apparent plan is to double down on a failed strategy for economic stimulus." The next day, the White House went on offense, hailing a preliminary report on stimulus job creation (30,000 jobs directly created or saved by the first $16 billion in spending). House minority leader John Boehner retorted that such exulting was "beyond the pale" because "3 million private-sector jobs have been lost since it became...
...Among the poll's findings: More than 90% of Americans see the country's economic conditions as only fair or poor, and despite heavy government spending to counter the recession, slightly more than half of those polled feel there has been no improvement in their personal economic situation. Perhaps most troubling, the TIME poll reveals that Americans fear what's to come next from Wall Street. In hindsight, 55% believe the government rescue of financial institutions was wrong, and a majority also believe that the financial industry has too much influence in Washington...
...Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican, hopes to change all that. In an effort to counter the criticism that the party doesn't stand for anything but opposing President Obama, Cantor has reconvened the working group that came up with the GOP's alternative to the White House's stimulus plan. That wasn't exactly a big success - the proposal was widely panned for relying too heavily on tax cuts - but Cantor is convinced that taking the long view is the path to success: health care and global warming may be the topics du jour, but "the narrative next...
...ecologist at Stanford University who has made no secret of his research into the possible effectiveness of geoengineering schemes - even as many of his colleagues have shied away from the subject, partly out of concern that it would wrongly convince people that there is a cheaper way to counter global warming. Since SuperFreakonomics was published, however, Caldeira has claimed that Levitt and Dubner mischaracterized his views. He says he's in favor of researching geoengineering in order to gauge its effectiveness and its potential side effects, but he still believes it should only be used...
...closer we get, the harder the opposition will fight and the more we’ll hear from those whose interest or ideology run counter to the much needed action that we’re engaged in,” Obama said...