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Ernest Istook: “Obama-Pelosi Plan Would Create Thirty-Two Government Programs”

The proposed Obama-Pelosi “economic stimulus” would end the era of merely big government and replace it with leviathan government.

“It’ll never go away,” says Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), calling the plan “a permanent increase at a time when we are in the worst financial shape we’ve ever been in.” He adds, “None of this is going to stimulate anything.”

However, President Barack Obama says size doesn’t matter. As he said at his inaugural, “The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works.” Read more…

Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Ernest Istook Trackback URL for this entry

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