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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...
Making Us Stupid
If you want to know why we are so screwed as a nation, you can probably find a couple of dozen good reasons. But this, I say, is right at the top of the list. From MSNBC, with Chuck Todd filling in for Andrea Mitchell: Richard Stengel, managing editor of TIME...
The New War of Independence - Against Corporate Politics
This is the age of corporatized politics. That means we may admire our leaders, but we can't depend on them. We're paying the price for Thomas Jefferson's unfulfilled desire to "crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to...
How Much Would A Social Security Deal Cost You
How much would you lose in benefits if President Obama makes a deal with the Republicans to cut Social Security? The Administration isn't denying reports that just such a deal is in the works. As the President prepares to meet with Congressional leaders tomorrow, the...
Mandatory E-Verify Would Overwhelm Social Security Administration Increase Disability Backlog
The train of threats to Social Security this year keeps on rolling, this time from the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. The “E-Verify” program threatens to undermine the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the millions of Americans who rely on it....
Indecent and Irresponsible
Seeing as even most liberals are on board with the whole "Stimulus now, but deficit reduction in the future" formulation (leading, unfortunately, to rash proposals to cut Medicare and Social Security in exchange for short term stimulus) this bracing dose of the truth...
Low Taxes On The Rich Could Be Hazardous To Your Economy
Former Wall Street trader and analyst Henry Blodget asks a prescient question about tax rates in his column at Business Insider: "Do low tax rates on rich people actually ruin the economy?" He doesn't answer the question, but he makes an observation that points to a...
