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...great financial question confronting the American people lately has to do with their withered investment portfolios. After the government's huge stimulus package, there is a sense of relief that the financial crisis seems under control, but there is also a lingering suspicion that economic malaise may be here to stay, even if big outfits like the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development say otherwise. (On Wednesday, the OECD joined the list of optimistic forecasters, saying that economic growth would return in 2010 and be better than the organization had expected just three months...
...Drew national attention, and many constituents' ire, by announcing he would reject about $700 million of the expected $2.8 billion in federal funding directed to South Carolina in the 2009 stimulus bill - which he opposed. He later backed down after losing his fight in court...
...think the fatal flaw of a lot of people in politics is that they want to be loved. I sleep like a baby at night." -Brushing off criticism for his stance on rejecting federal stimulus money (New York Times, April...
...latest showcase involved President Obama's $787 billion stimulus package. Sanford led a group of GOP governors, including Alaska's Sarah Palin and Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, assailing it as fiscal suicide. Sanford even likened it to the hyper-inflationary policies of Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe, and he spent the past spring fighting to reject a quarter of South Carolina's $2.8 billion share of the funds unless he could use it to reduce the state's debt...
...them but because they're more sensitive, simply finding the hardships endured by unhealthy babies too difficult to contemplate. Such highly tuned empathy can ultimately make them better caregivers, even if a four-second exposure to the idea is painful. "Everyone will try to get away from a stimulus that feels like a punishment and hold on to one that feels like a reward," Elman says...