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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Boehner, White House blog face off over local impact of stimulus
U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner and a top White House staffer faced off in a war of words today, Aug. 11, over the potential impact of the West Chester Twp. Republican’s call to stop stimulus spending on local projects.
The squabble started when Boehner made the Sunday talk show circuit Aug. 8.
“Whey don’t we stop the stimulus spending?” Boehner said on NBC’s Meet the Press. “There’s still about $400 billion or $500 billion of the stimulus plan that has not been spent. Why don’t we stop it. It’s not working.”
Jared Bernstein, chief economic advisor to the vice president, shot back today on the official White House blog.
“Though we’re sure he didn’t know it, the Congressman is advocating to kill the expansion of the Butler County Community Health Center and bring some of the twenty-five highway projects across the district to a grinding halt,” Bernstein wrote.
Bernstein went on to list other things stopping the stimulus would do, including ending a tax credit for 4 million Ohioans, halting unemployment checks and unfunding more than 100 clean energy projects across the state.
Finally, Bernstein took issue with Boehner’s numbers, pointing to a Politifact report that only $292 billion of the $787 billion stimulus plan has not been spent, and much of the it has already been obligated.
Less than two hours later, Boehner issued his own statement.
“The people of my district are looking at President Obama’s ‘stimulus’ policies and asking a simple question: where are the jobs?,” Boehner said in the release. “The fact is, the president’s ‘stimulus’ spending spree is not delivering the results he promised it would, whether you’re looking in Ohio or anywhere else in America.”
“A nation in our fiscal condition should be spending less, not more,” he said, decrying Democrats’ call to end tax cuts enacted under President George Bush that Boehner said would amount to a tax hike on 50 percent of small businesses in America.
“I hope Vice President Biden’s economist today will provide the people of the Eighth Congressional District with an explanation of how raising taxes on small businesses will do anything but further hinder job creation in Ohio and across the country,” he said.
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TweetButler County roundup - Time stands still, auditor says property values to level
Two stories of note in today’s paper:
In this story, we get a forecast of the housing market from the Butler County Auditor’s Office:
Homeowners in much of Butler County are expected to see property values stabilize next year.
But the downward spiral in home values in Middletown and the East Side of Hamilton are projected to continue to slide, said county auditor’s office officials Tuesday, Aug. 10, during a town hall meeting on real estate trends and the county’s finances.
“There is stabilization in certain pockets of Butler County. Farmland is holding its values, West Chester and other suburbs are stabilizing. But urban areas are suffering,” Butler County Chief Deputy Auditor Michael Tilton said.
And in this story, we learn that the broken clock atop Butler County’s historic courthouse probably won’t be fixed any time soon:
When the clocks atop the Historic Butler County Courthouse chimed noon Tuesday, Aug. 10, the hands on the four clocks differed. The east-facing clock said it was 12:05; the south-facing clock said 12:07.
The clock facing High Street said it was 10:10. But that’s what it always says. It has been broken for months.
County officials say they would love to fix the icon that is the centerpiece of the county seal, but they aren’t sure they can afford it.
Clock repair companies have told the county it would cost $2,800 just to diagnose the problem — it would have to be completely disassembled — and up to $28,000 to replace the broken clock, according to county management and budget director Pete Landrum.
“It is the symbol of the county. It’s on our stationery. It is important to the commissioners. But we’re trying to make the best budgetary decisions now,” Landrum said. He added that the county may be able to budget for it next year.
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