Crimes Against Liberty (73 page)

6
David Goldman, “Stimulus is Now $75 Billion More Expensive,”
CNNMoney.com
, January 26, 2010; available at:
http://money.cnn
.
com/2010/01/26/news/economy/stimulus_cbo/index.htm
[accessed July 2, 2010].

7
“What GOP Leaders Deem Wasteful in Senate Stimulus Bill,”
CNNPolitics.com
, February 4, 2009; available at:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/02/gop.stimulus.worries/index.html
[accessed July 2, 2010].

8
Stephen W. Smith, “Biden Vows To ‘Follow The Money,’”
CBS News
, Political Hotsheet, February 25, 2009; available at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-4827236-503544.html
[accessed July 2, 2010].

9
Barbara Hollingsworth, “Phantom zip codes also found in Virginia,”
The Washington Examiner
, January 6, 2010; available at:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Phantom-zip-codes-also-found-in-Virginia-80795072.html
[accessed July 2, 2010].

10
Barbara Hollingsworth, “Stimulus Watch: Now it’s fake zip codes,”
The Washington Examiner
, January 4, 2010; available at:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Now-its-fake-zip-codes-80627972.html
[accessed July 2, 2010].

11
Jeremy Redmon and John Perry, “For-profit Colleges Reap Big Benefit from Stimulus,”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
, June 6, 2010; available at:
http://www.ajc.com/news/for-profit-colleges-reap-541761.html
[accessed July 2, 2010].

12
Veronique de Rugy, “Did the Stimulus Create Jobs?”
Reason.com
, December 11, 2009; available at:
http://reason.com/archives/2009/12/11/did-the-stimulus-create-jobs
[accessed July 2, 2010].

13
Carl Hulse, “Job Bill Passes in Senate With 11 Republican Votes,”
The New York Times
, March 17, 2010; available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/us/politics/18cong.html
[accessed July 2, 2010].

14
“Why Obama’s Stimulus Failed,” The Heritage Foundation’s
Morning Bell
, June 7, 2010; available at:
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/06/07/morning-bell-why-obamas-stimulus-failed/
[accessed July 2, 2010].

15
David M. Dickson, “CBO Report: Debt Will Rise to 90% of GDP,”
The Washington Times
, March 26, 2010; available at:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/26/cbos-2020-vision-debt-will-rise-to-90-of-gdp/
[accessed July 2, 2010].

16
Ibid.

17
Steve McCann, “America’s Growing Vulnerability to Catastrophe,”
American Thinker
, May 3, 2010; available at:
http://www.american-thinker.com/2010/05/americas_growing_vulnerability_1.html
[accessed July 2, 2010].

18
Brian Riedl, “Obama Budget Raises Taxes and Doubles the National Debt,” The Heritage Foundation, March 9, 2010; available at:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/03/Obama-Budget-Raises-Taxes-and-Doubles-the-National-Debt
[accessed July 2, 2010].

19
Conn Carroll, “Budget 2011: Past Deficits vs. Obama’s Deficits in Pictures,” The Heritage Foundation, February 5, 2010; available at:
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/02/05/past-deficits-vs-obamas-deficits-in-pictures/
[accessed July 2, 2010].

20
Brian Riedl, “The Obama Budget: Spending, Taxes, and Doubling the National Debt,” The Heritage Foundation, March 16, 2009; available at:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2009/03/The-Obama-Budget-Spending-Taxes-and-Doubling-the-National-Debt
[accessed July 2, 2010].

21
Dick Morris, “Behind Obama’s Phony Deficit Numbers,” DickMorris. com, February 1, 2010; available at:
http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2010/02/01/behind-obamas-phony-deficit-numbers/
[accessed July 2, 2010].

22
Martin Crutsinger, “Federal Budget Deficit Hits April Record,”
Townhall.com
, May 12, 2010; available at:
http://townhall.com/news/business/2010/05/12/federal_budget_deficit_hits_april_record
[accessed July 2, 2010].

23
Steve McCann, “America’s Growing Vulnerability to Catastrophe,”
op cit
.

24
Ibid.

25
“Obama Budget Projects $1.56T Deficit,”
CBSNews.com
, February 1, 2010; available at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/01/politics/main6162494.shtml
[accessed July 2, 2010].

26
Ibid.

27
“Ryan to Geithner: Why Propose a Budget You Admit Is Not Credible, Not Sustainable?” State News Service, February 3, 2010.

28
Brian Riedl, “Obama’s Faith-Based Economics,”
The Foundry
, February 18, 2010; available at:
http://blog.heritage.org/?p=26669
[accessed July 2, 2010].

29
Brian Riedl, “Obama Budget Raises Taxes and Doubles the National Debt,”
op. cit
.

30
Ibid.

31
Curtis Dubay, “Small Businesses Face Steep Tax Hikes Unless Congress Acts Soon,” The Heritage Foundation, May 6, 2010; available at:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Testimony/Small-Businesses-Face-Steep-Tax-Hikes-Unless-Congress-Acts-Soon
[accessed July 2, 2010].

32
Justin Fishel, “Obama Announces $75 Billion Foreclosure Prevention Plan,”
FoxNews.com
, February 18, 2009; available at:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/18/obama-announces-billion-foreclosure-prevention-plan/
[accessed July 2, 2010].

33
Peter S. Goodman, “U.S. Loan Effort Is Seen as Adding to Housing Woes,”
The New York Times
, January 1, 2010; available at:
http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/business/economy/02modify.html?src=tp
[accessed July 2, 2010].

34
Ibid.

35
Alan Zibel, “Borrowers Exit Troubled Obama Mortgage Program,”
Townhall.com
, June 21, 2010; available at:
http://townhall.com/news/business/2010/06/21/borrowers_exit_troubled_obama_mortgage_program
[accessed July 2, 2010].

36
Les Christie, “75% of modified home loans will redefault,” CNN-Money. com, June 16, 2010; available at:
http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/16/real_estate/failing_HAMP_mods/index.htm
[accessed July 2, 2010].

37
Ben Lieberman, “The Waxman-Markey Global Warming Bill: Is the Economic Pain Justified by the Environmental Gain?” The Heritage Foundation, June 2, 2009; available at:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Testimony/The-Waxman-Markey-Global-Warming-Bill-Is-the-Economic-Pain-Justified-by-the-Environmental-Gain
[accessed July 2, 2010].

38
Ben Lieberman, “A Clean Energy Economy Is A Weak Economy,” The Heritage Foundation, April 16, 2010; available at:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Commentary/2010/04/In-Green-Spain-Unemployment-Nearly-Twice-Our-Woeful-10-Percent-Rate
[accessed July 2, 2010].

39
“Cap and Trade Was Never About the Climate,” The Foundry, March 6, 2009; available at:
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/06/cap-and-trade-was-never-about-climate/
[accessed July 2, 2010].

40
Ben Lieberman, “The Waxman-Markey Global Warming Bill: Is the Economic Pain Justified by the Environmental Gain?”
op. cit
.

41
Chip Knappenberger, “The American Power Act: A Climate Dud,” MasterResource Blog, May 12, 2010; available at:
http://www.masterresource.org/2010/05/the-american-power-act-a-climate-dud/
[accessed July 2, 2010].

42
Patrick J. Michaels, “Kerry and Lieberman Unveil Their Climate Bill: Such a Deal!”
Cato @ Liberty
, May 12, 2010; available at:
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/05/12/kerry-and-lieberman-unveil-their-climate-bill-such-a-deal/
[accessed July 2, 2010].

43
“Obamacare’s True Costs Coming to Light,” Heritage Foundation’s
Morning Bell
, June 2, 2010; available at:
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/06/02/morning-bell-obamacares-true-costs-coming-to-light/
[accessed July 2, 2010].

44
Julie Crawshaw, “Study: Obamacare Fails to Pay for High Risk Pools,”
MoneyNews.com
, June 3, 2010; available at:
http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Obamacare-Pay-High-Risk/2010/06/03/id/360969
[accessed July 2, 2010].

45
Connie Hair, “Medicare Report: Obamacare Bad for Seniors,”
Human Events
, April 27, 2010; available at:
http://www.human-events.com/article.php?id=36680
[accessed July 2, 2010].

46
Robert B. Bluey, “The Inconvenient Number Cruncher,”
Politico
, April 30, 2010; available at:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/36614.html
[accessed July 2, 2010].

47
Paul Howard, “Obamacare’s Hidden Costs - Democrats Have Unleashed a Tidal Wave of Unintended Consequences,”
City Journal
, May 13, 2010; available at:
http://www.city-journal.org/2010/eon0513ph.html
[accessed July 2, 2010].

48
Editorial, “ObamaCare Mulligan,”
The Wall Street Journal
, April 26, 2010; available at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704133804575198322718759844.html
[accessed July 2, 2010].

49
The Prowler, “What Lies Beneath,”
The American Spectator
, April 26, 2010; available at:
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/04/26/what-lies-beneath
[accessed July 2, 2010].

50
Editorial, “One Million Votes Against Obamacare,”
The Washington Times
, May 12, 2010; available at:
http://www.washington-times.com/news/2010/may/12/one-million-votes-against-obamacare/
[accessed July 2, 2010].

51
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, “Small Business Lobby to Go to Court on Health Law,”
Townhall.com
, May 14, 2010; available at:
http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/13/small-business-lobby-joins-challenge-to-health-law /
[accessed July 2, 2010]. See also, “State Attorneys General Sue Over Health Bill,”
msnbc.com
, March 23, 2010; available at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36001783/ns/politics-health_care_reform/
[accessed July 2, 2010].

52
Michael D. Tanner, “The Mythology of Health Care Reform,” Cato Institute, March 3, 2006; available at:
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5871
[accessed July 2, 2010].

53
Michael D. Tanner, “Who Are the Uninsured?” The Cato Institute, August 20, 2009; available at:
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10449
[accessed July 2, 2010].

54
Sally C. Pipes, “Understanding all the facts about the uninsured,”
The Washington Examiner
, October 25, 2009; available at:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Sunday_Reflections/Understanding-all-the-facts-about-the-uninsured-8430034-65806797.html
[accessed July 2, 2010].

55
Sally Pipes,
The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide
(San Francisco, CA: Pacific Research Institute, 2008), 39.

56
David Freddoso, “Taking the red pill, Mr. President,”
The Washington Examiner
, July 23, 2009; available at:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Take-the-red-pill-Mr-President-51473502. html
. [accessed July 2, 2010].