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A 60 Billion Down Payment On The Essentials For Economic Renewal
This week the Senate will take up another proposal by the Obama administration to create jobs and move the country closer to economic recovery, this one a $60 billion plan for immediate spending on the nation's roads, bridges, public transportation systems and other...
You Cant Allow People to Take Over
As the world impatiently awaits a statement of purpose and list of demands from the Occupy movements across the country and world, former Charlotte, North Carolina mayor Pat McCrory perhaps unintentionally and unwittingly framed it perfectly in a television interview...
Progressive Breakfast - 10/31/2011
NOTE: Today's Breakfast was delayed because of the weekend power outage in the Northeast. Apologies for any inconvenience. Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs,...
Progressive Breakfast
NOTE: Today's Breakfast was delayed because of the weekend power outage in the Northeast. Apologies for any inconvenience. Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs,...
Rick Perry and the Bankruptcy of Modern Day Conservatives
Texas Governor Rick Perry touts himself as the most conservative candidate who is electable. He prays with the fundamentalists, hunts with the Second Amendment gang, decries federal tyranny with the 10th Amendment crowd, and “pokes” around with the birthers. He just...
Boo W Post Dresses Up Like a Newspaper To Tell a Social Security Ghost Story
What do they call the night before Halloween? Oh, yeah. Hell night. That makes tonight just right for grabbing a fistful of mashmallows and candy corn before sitting down to read this article. It'll make your blood run cold, and afterwards you'll probably agree: It's...
Fact Sheet Inaccuracies in Washington Posts Halloween Social Security Article
A Huffington Post commenter responding to my recent piece on the Washington Post's recent Social Security article by saying that I "claimed 'inaccuracies, falsehoods, and downright lies' but delivered problems of tone, and emphasis." Then, and without irony, the...
Democrats Are Courting Political Disaster With Medicare Social Security and Medicaid Cuts
TAKE ACTION Sign this petition calling on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Boehner to not let the congressional deficit-reduction supercommittee cut Social Security and Medicare. At a time when American’s are demonstrating in cities and towns across...
Reasonable People
Dana Milbank dissects the Super Committee in yesterday's column: Reasonable people on all sides know that tackling the nation’s long-term debt problems will require both an increase in taxes and cuts to entitlement programs. But just weeks from the committee’s...
Disabled Kids And The Dow Jones Their Common Super Committee Threat
Bad economics makes strange bedfellows. Thanks to our nation's misguided obsession with budget cuts, disabled children and the stock market face a common threat: an undemocratically-selected "Super Committee" which was formed during a national jobs emergency in order...
