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Did American Workers Get What They Deserved
What did people expect would happen when they voted for Reagan, Bush and other conservatives, or supported their policies? In the Holland (Michigan) Sentinel community columnist Ray Buursma writes, American workers got what they deserved. Some of the things he says...
Why We Must Take Back The Capitol
Keith Chatterton, a 61-year-old former salesman for a building components company, recently told the Syracuse Post-Standard that he hasn't had a steady job since 2008, even with "days scouring the Internet for openings, attending job fairs and support groups, trying...
Progressive Breakfast - 12/16/2011
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Privatizing...
Romney Jobs Plan Latest Attempt To Copy Bush The Worst Jobs President Since Hoover
Today, presidential candidate Mitt Romney outlines his "jobs" plan in USA Today, by asserting that: "All too often ... government gets in the way. The past three years of unparalleled government expansion have retaught that lesson all too well." Funny that Romney's...
On Social Security Romney Just As Dangerous As Other GOP Candidates
No matter how fatigued the rest of the country is with the endless Republican debate schedule, Mitt Romney must be looking forward to tonight’s face-off in New Hampshire. Despite reports that he is losing ground in some states to Herman Cain and others, Romney knows...
Romney Tax Plan Would Require Slashing Social Safety Net Says Romney Economic Adviser
Last Thursday, presidential candidate Mitt Romney said, "the people who need the help most are not the poor, who have a safety net." Two days later, his economic adviser Gregory Mankiw wrote in the New York Times, "To maintain current levels of taxation, we will need...
Romney In His Own Words The People Who Need The Help Most Are Not The Poor
If you were waiting for an economic plan from presidential candidate Mitt Romney that helps the poor, you might be waiting for a while. Stumping in Iowa last Thursday, Romney explicitly stated that helping the poor need not be a top priority -- "In our country, the...
In Honor Of Mitt Romneys Jobs Plan
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has unveiled a "Jobs Plan." CAF's Bill Scher celebrates with his post, Romney "Jobs" Plan Latest Attempt To Copy Bush, The Worst Jobs President Since Hoover, Funny that Romney's lesson-learning stops at 2009, and skips...
Five Reasons Romneys Plan Is the Same Old Job-Killing Madness
Mitt Romney has very serious ideas for fixing the economy. How do we know? By the typeface. Romney's released a 59-page plan in one of those very, very serious typefaces - Garamond, or Cambria, or Times New Roman - Well, to be honest, I'm not sure which. But trust me....
Newts Ideas
It has come to this. The Republican primary race has become so sad that even Newt Gingrich gets a turn at playing frontrunner. He has long conned much of conservative movement and the Washington media into treating him as some sort of intellectual giant, when his...
