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The White House Wont Touch Social Security Great Now About Medicare
Washington, DC felt like a city on a deathwatch this week, after a series of White House news leaks said the President would announce cuts to Medicare and Social Security benefits next Monday. One plan was to raise the eligibility age for Medicare and Social Security....
Raising the Medicare Age Discussing this Terrible Awful Not-So-Good Idea With Sam Seder
Here's an interview we did with Sam Seder today (Monday) on his Majority Report show. It's about raising the Medicare eligibility age. Great discussion (it's always a great show): Richard Eskow on Raising the Medicare Eligibility Age: Sam Seder's Majority Report 9 12...
Raising the Medicare Age 8 Reasons Its the Worst Presidential Bargain Since 1854
When it comes to the "Grand Bargain" they're pushing in Washington, the movie posters for The Fly said it best: Be afraid. Be very afraid. Othe people are using our lives as bargaining chips. Whether it's the so-called Congressional "Super Committee" or the...
Progressive Breakfast - 9/16/2011
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: Social Security...
Infrastructure Work Is Needed And People Need The Work
We've been deferring maintenance of our infrastructure since the Reagan tax cuts - never mind modernizing to restore American competitiveness. It is something that has to be done anyway, and here we are with so many people needing work. It's just nuts. Millions of...
Corporations Lose Love Of Secret Ballot After NLRB Proposal For Fair Union Elections
The NLRB proposes streamlining union elections. Companies that were for secret ballots last year are now against it. Conservatives say removing barriers to elections "rams elections through" and " foist unions on workers" and that We, the People (government) shouldn't...
Mr President Bring Our Soldiers Home
"America, it is time to focus on nation building here at home," President Obama said in his nationwide address on Wednesday, as he announced a plan to withdraw our forces from Afghanistan "at a steady pace" between now and 2014. In his speech, the president set the...
War Economy The Selling of Afghanistan 2011
Pop quiz: Can you list some specific, concrete military objectives we're trying to accomplish in Afghanistan? If so, please write them in the space provided below: If you felt you could fill out this form, here's part two of the quiz: Now write a speech uniting the...
The President Shames Republicans For Resisting Shared Sacrifice
President Obama ramped up the pressure on congressional Republicans to accept the principle of shared sacrifice and stop shielding "millionaires and billionaires" from paying their fair share of the cost of deficit reduction. While the President did not embrace the...
Fact & Fiction on Social Security
I'm writing a series of posts as a blogging fellow for the Strengthen Social Security Campaign, a coalition of more than 270 national and state organizations. Republicans (and some Democrats) have started a full-scale assault on the social safety net that has made...
