COLUMN: Need shown for second stimulus, new industrial policy
Pekin Daily Times
Almost 2 million Illinoisans were expected to have traveled on Labor Day weekend — up 11 percent from 2009 — and 1.8 million of us were driving. Maybe that was because gasoline prices weren’t up as high as people feared — 11 cents per gallon higher than Labor Day 2009, according to the American Automobile Association.
When the U.S. economy’s tank is running on fumes, maybe we see less-bad news as good news: an illusion. Or delusion.
President Obama on Friday finally seemed to show some determination to push for a second stimulus. After 20 months of compromise and capitulation to the Party of No, maybe Democrats are realizing that voters are as annoyed with them being spineless as they are with Republicans being stubborn.
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Almost 2 million Illinoisans were expected to have traveled on Labor Day weekend — up 11 percent from 2009 — and 1.8 million of us were driving. Maybe that was because gasoline prices weren’t up as high as people feared — 11 cents per gallon higher than Labor Day 2009, according to the American Automobile Association.
When the U.S. economy’s tank is running on fumes, maybe we see less-bad news as good news: an illusion. Or delusion.
President Obama on Friday finally seemed to show some determination to push for a second stimulus. After 20 months of compromise and capitulation to the Party of No, maybe Democrats are realizing that voters are as annoyed with them being spineless as they are with Republicans being stubborn.
Read more
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