Budget

Just call the budget…an investment

Sheila Liaugminas | 02 February 2010

Why didn’t the president think of that? After all, politicians are so good at spin. "“Don’t talk about the deficit as a historic deficit. Talk about it as a historic investment. Make the subject record unemployment relief, and record state relief, and record job spending, and record small business investments, and record tax cuts. Tell a positive story you want to defend rather than a negative story you want to apologize for."

Budget busting records

Sheila Liaugminas | 02 February 2010

This is where it gets wonkish, even for the most informed and actively engaged citizens. Health care battles are over for now (fickle Congress), and last weeks’ jobs emphasis has just been displaced by the Obama budget proposal for fiscal 2011.