But if the economy and financial markets are giving mixed signals, key members of the Obama administration also appear less than uniform in their economic pronouncements.

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In particularly blunt criticism, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek of the Czech Republic, which currently holds the EU presidency, blasted the Obama administration's stimulus plan as "a way to hell" and a threat to world financial markets.

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By ridding the nation of Taxation and instituting borrowing to fund public expenditures, the nation will shed all those costs of Taxation in deterrence and government excess for the negligible fee of borrowing in the financial markets and the administration of public debt.

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Within a few months, the financial markets crashed, the Bush Administration bailed out the banks, and Barack Obama won the Presidency.

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But it is unlikely the Treasury will bow to demands to overhaul the way the National Assembly is funded by Westminster in order for the administration to dip into the financial markets.

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