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Home Front: Politix
3 Jobs Saved with $5.97M in Stimulus Money
2009-12-09
Almost $6 million in federal stimulus funds was given to two firms run by Hillary Clinton's former presidential campaign strategist, The Hill newspaper reported Wednesday.

Mark Penn, who worked as Clinton's pollster during her 2008 presidential run, reportedly received $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus package so he could preserve three jobs at his public relations firm, Burson-Marsteller.

The firm has gained attention for securing a contract to work on a campaign advertising the nation's switch from analog to digital television. The Hill reported that $2.8 million of that contract was given to Penn's polling firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates.

Republicans have blasted the use of federal stimulus dollars, claiming the money has gone to many projects that have little or nothing to do with job creation.

Senators John McCain, R-Ariz., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., held a news conference Tuesday in which they released a report criticizing 100 projects paid for by the stimulus package that they claim wasted $7 billion.
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#5  You're right. I don't have much faith in peoples' common sense. I also didn't say prices would go up overnight. But they would go up. That much money in the hands of so many in the economy would lead to a shortage of goods and services in some sectors (home-improvement, for example). It isn't a far stretch to think that costs and prices would go up in other sectors as well.

BTW, Mormons have pantries too. Just a little 'cultural edification' for you.
Posted by: Pappy   2009-12-09 22:10  

#4  Hilli-bribe, just like a Senate seat
Posted by: Frank G   2009-12-09 20:49  

#3  I understand you think that would bring on unlimited inflation.
You don't give the people of the USA any common sense, anybody selling 50 buck hamburgers will quickly be put out of business, even Millionaires won't be screwed (not including dumbasses), who quickly will NOT be millionaires very long, say two months or so.

There always will be fools, but given a million, I'd sit on it for 6 months or so and let the morons spend themselves broke, and still be WAY ahead.I could stretch my stored food (Pantry, a southern thing) We all have some food put away for hard times.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2009-12-09 20:39  

#2  Sure - if you don't mind $50 hamburgers...
Posted by: Pappy   2009-12-09 19:31  

#1  Wouldn't it be more effective to give each CITIZEN one million tax-free dollars?

Why yes, it would, so they can't even think of it.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2009-12-09 12:05  

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