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2009 Newsletter Archive
- 250,000 new bureaucrats
March 4, 2009
How the Obama administration's spending proposals would expand the size and scope of the federal government.
- Heritage experts unpack President Obama’s speech
February 25, 2009
The Heritage Foundation’s policy experts covered President Obama’s address to the Congress live on the Foundry blog last night. They responded in real time to the points the President raised on issues such as foreign policy, energy, taxes, spending and education.
- Bailout 2.0
February 20, 2009
Last week, the Obama administration announced new plans to "rescue" the economy with another round of bailouts.
- What’s hidden in the ‘stimulus’?
February 10, 2009
The Trillion Dollar Debt Plan heads for final approval--and it's loaded up with welfare spending, big government health care and jobs for illegal immigrants. And will it even work?
- Failed economic theories
February 6, 2009
In a Thursday column in the Washington Post, President Barack Obama said that it is important not to “echo the failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis.” “He’s absolutely right,” says The Heritage Foundation expert J.D. Foster.
- 'The Heritage Plan'
January 30, 2009
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) pitched his conservative “stimulus plan” to an audience at The Heritage Foundation yesterday. The plan would be an alternative to the big government spending plan President Obama and liberals in Congress are trying to ram through.
- A better way than government spending
January 27, 2009
“We are spending more than we have ever spent before, and it does not work,” said Henry Morgenthau, FDR’s Treasury Secretary and architect of the New Deal. The reason spending didn’t work then – and it won’t now – is because government spending does not help the economy out of a recession.