by Richard Eskow | Jan 16, 2013 | Blog
Here's a thought experiment: What if a group of Social Security and Medicare recipients wanted to increase their benefits by, say, 1,000 percent, and proposed seizing rich people's assets – houses, cars, boats, whatever – to pay for it? And whenever anybody suggested...
by Stan Collender | Jan 16, 2013 | The Sequester
Over at The Plum Line, Greg Sargent has an important post about the way the debt ceiling fight could end without triggering a cash-crunch crisis for the federal government. Greg thinks is could be one of two possibilities. First, the House GOP could agree to a version...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 16, 2013 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
Today, President Obama signed a broad array of executive orders to curb gun violence, in what was the boldest Presidential action against gun violence since the Clinton administration. In a speech that recalled the shootings in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Col., and...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 16, 2013 | Economy
Our country has so many urgent needs and two of them are the need for jobs for millions of unemployed people, and the need to upgrade our aging, crumbling infrastructure. Our current policy -- enforced by GOP filibusters of bills to fix the country's infrastructure --...
by Bill Scher | Jan 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Declare Victory Over The Deficit OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "When it comes to spending cuts, it’s time to follow the advice a general offered when we were mired in Vietnam: Declare victory and get out ... Washington needs to spend more money now...
