Tag Archives: stimulus

Do you remember when the media were apoplexed by reports that the Defense Department during the days of Reagan were spending hundreds, hundreds of dollars on porcelain throne lids? USA Today does, or did when former Defense Sec. Caspar Weinberger died. For those who don’t, yes, there have been times when media were offended byContinue Reading

He will not say so in words, nor will the media dare report it, but the president’s budget slams the door hard on the belief that the Keynesian stimulus would save the economy. When I say hard, I mean permanently: In 2009, Obama economists predicted the unemployment rate — if Congress passed the $800 billionContinue Reading

A couple of weeks ago I called it “a highly cherished fiction by policymakers that they are the ones who create the jobs,” going on to compare politicians’ role in job creation with highways’ role in car creation: It’s also dangerous fiction, because these bills and programs require transferring resources and freedom from the realContinue Reading

This morning, Donna and Rick Martinez of WPTF had a Wake Forest University professor, David Coates, on their radio show, and he advocated more deficit spending than is already going on at the federal level. What?! As though federal officials haven’t already dug a deep enough hole with $206 trillion in unfunded liabilities. My guessContinue Reading

I am sure that fans of the Locker Room have read the excellent Carolina Journal story about Jeff Moss, the superintendent of Lee County Schools who does not mind that teachers use their students to lobby the state legislature for more moola. If you ask me, Moss and Sharon Spence, the public information officer forContinue Reading

According to the Charlotte Observer, Senate Minority Leader Martin Nesbitt this afternoon sent around a new report from the Southern Regional Education Board. It suggests that most Southern states are increasing spending on education, not cutting it, and that North Carolina is cutting at all levels of education more deeply than other states. The SouthernContinue Reading

Much of the state and local media has ignored the fact that the expiration of federal stimulus funding is one of the major reasons why school districts will be forced to reduce faculty and staff at the end of the school year. School districts were aware of the so-called “funding cliff” when the stimulus billContinue Reading

The editors of the Charlotte Observer want county commissioners to pony up some money for CMS.  No surprise there.  But take notice of this bit of spin: Some say CMS is focusing on the wrong target. County commissioner Bill James said in an email that school officials “should be putting the squeeze on the groupContinue Reading