Fight Back Oregon » Spending

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

mevans — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:39:18 +0000

Measures 66 and 67 pretty dramatically fail to deliver on the central promises made by Democrats and the “Yes” campaign.

Another False Promise from Federal Stimulus

mevans — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:51:06 +0000

Federal Stimulus money is going to run out – Oregon will then be obligated to either raise taxes to continue the spending, or lay off more people in a state already hard-hit by unemployment.

AFP- Oregon Tea Party in Albany, Oregon

Americans for Prosperity - Blog — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:53:53 +0000

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Bonding Debt to Stimulate the Economy?

jkropf — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:27:29 +0000

Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney has put forth an idea that will put the taxpayers on the hook for one billion dollars of bonded debt in an effort to stop Oregon’s recession and stimulate the economy. This is a bad idea for a number of reasons and will ultimately fail because it doesn’t deal with the root cause of the state’s ability to deal with less revenue during a recession. Namely, too much spending and not enough in savings.

Presidential hopeful pushes ahead of the crowd on spending reform

Americans for Prosperity - Blog — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:32:01 +0000

The early bird gets the worm; and when the worm is the presidency of the United States of America, the bird better be extraordinarily early. As one of the rising issues of concern to the American public (yes, that means red and blue states), out of control government spending is what every presidential hopeful should be speaking to. Gov. Mitt Romney is doing exactly that: