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...proposed $47.5 billion bond issue the government is asking taxpayers to approve to provide stimulus investment for businesses and infrastructure have fallen afoul of feminists. The posters show Marianne - the Phrygian-bonneted symbol of the French Republic - barefoot, swathed in pure white and very pregnant. That, critics say, sends the chauvinist message of women as chaste, stay-at-home types whose sole function in life is to provide their husbands with children needed for labor and warring. Some detractors say the images also exploit women for political purposes. "The hand of the state shouldn't be in my uterus," wrote...
...Over the past year, China has encouraged the sale of economy cars. As part of its stimulus efforts, the government halved taxes on vehicles with engines smaller than 1.6 L. Combined with the relative health of the Chinese economy, car sales soared. In 2009 mainland consumers bought more vehicles than their American counterparts, making China the world's largest car market for the first time. Even so, the Hummer was a little too big for their taste...
...Congress Looks Toward a Jobs Stimulus...
...that the government can employ people quickly and effectively. The first step must be for the government to extend aid to states in order to save the jobs of teachers, civil servants, and local employees such as firefighters and policemen. Such aid was extended in Obama’s stimulus bill and helped save a great deal of jobs, but with almost every state running deficits and with a few even approaching bankruptcy, states would be forced to make difficult decisions if this aid were to run out. In addition to this, therefore, the government must build on the efforts...
...distinctively muted fashion), strode in unannounced and received a rowdy hero's welcome. As much as Bush-Cheney disappointed conservatives with their loose fiscal policy and assorted missteps, the right is now positively nostalgic for the good old days of the not too long ago. (See a stimulus report card after one year...