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Democrats want to use stimulus money to make you into the people populating Disney's cartoon 'Wall-E.' Instead, turn it into a weapon for antifragility.Democrats’ fifth round of “coronavirus” “stimulus” will soon hand another $1,400 in government debt, plus interest, to every American man, woman, and child in 90 percent of U.S. households. It’s clear this is yet another round of hush money meant to keep Americans quiet and distracted while Democrats restructure the United States into a larger version of their failed uniparty state, California.While COVID times have been obviously worse than the four years of prosperity and freedom under...

President Obama is receiving little credit for the improving economy, according to a new poll by Bloomberg News. Half of the public says the recent drop in the unemployment rate to seven percent would have happened anyway without the Obama administration doing anything, the poll suggests. Forty-five percent, meanwhile, say Obama deserves credit for economic progress. The Labor Department revealed Friday that 203,000 jobs were added in November, and the unemployment rate fell to seven percent--the lowest in five years. Bloomberg’s poll also indicates 60 percent say Obama isn’t responsible for the improving housing market, and 64 percent don’t give...