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Obama to Congress: No Time to Waste

 

Published 1/9/2009 by matthew.yeomans at The Big Money

Double-digit unemployment. A recession that lingers for years. That's what is coming to America should Congress dither over an ambitious $775 billion economic stimulus plan , its architect, president elect Barack Obama, told the country yesterday. Obama won't be sworn in for another dozen days, but he's wasting no time pushing his economic stimulus package to the people, BusinessWeek writes. read more (link)

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