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If the Super Committee Doesnt Cut Your Medicare Santa Claus Will Die
This holiday season, let's spare a kind thought for the decent people who toil inside Washington's legislative machinery. These good folk must live and work inside the dreamlike bubble that is today's policy and media world. Each day they strain to see reality through...
Egypt-Style Attacks On Several Occupy Camps
When Egyptians stood up to Mubarak they were met with tear gas and clubs. Once upon a time America had freedom of assembly, speech and protest. Even now, as long as protests don't take on the 1%, they are OK. But in today's America-for-the-1% protests, assemblies and...
A Super Committee Failure Wouldnt Hurt The Economy - But a Success Sure Would
Some Democrats have come under a lot of criticism lately, much of it deserved, for abandoning popular and important programs that were historically associated with their party. But some of the other Democrats -- the ones who are trying to act in the country's best...
Super Collusion Will Obama & Capitol Dems Betray the Middle Class Seniors and the Poor
Two new reports suggest that the President and Congressional Democrats are about to betray everything Democrats once stood for. Under pressure from Barack Obama, Democrats on the "Super Committee" have sketched out an appalling "compromise" proposal that would almost...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/14/2011
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: Newt's "Ideas"...
Progressive Breakfast
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: Newt's "Ideas"...
Taxes Are The Elephant In EVERY Room
Ten years ago we were on a path to paying off the country's debt. In fact, if we had stayed on the same trajectory the debt might be paid off already. But then we cut taxes even more, and raised the military budget even more, and the deficits and resulting debt...
Simple Things Like Painting Roofs White
If you paint black roofs white you save a lot on energy use, and you create some jobs. So how come something as simple as this is so hard to get going? I'm at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) - America. CGI is about a "process" of bringing attendees together to get...
The Republican Economic Anti-Government Argument
Haley Barbour articulated Republican economic thinking yesterday, saying "government sucks money out of the economy." Apparently he thinks it puts tax money under a big mattress. During yesterday's Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) -- America, Mississippi Governor and...
AFL-CIO Makes 10 Billion Infrastructure Commitment
At the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) - America yesterday the AFL-CIO announced a $10 billion commitment to invest in America's infrastructure. This commitment puts labor’s money where their mouth is. This initiative will help create mechanisms to finance...
