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Progressive Breakfast - 8/2/2011
MORNING MESSAGE: Four Ways The Deal Hurts You OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "1. You'll be less likely to find a job if you're looking. If you've got a job, you're less likely to earn more money - and more likely to lose it ... 2. Your housing value is likely to...
Dont Let Extortion Beat Democracy
The country has been held at gunpoint: a faction of the Congress, in service to a wealthy elite, were able to get away with threatening us, saying "give us everything we want or we will kill your economy." The other side, inured now to one-dollar-one-vote "market"...
Four Myths About the Debt-Ceiling Deal
Today we're watching the end of a brief manufactured crisis - and the beginning of a long national nightmare. The "debt ceiling" deal has been crafted so that "centrist" (i.e., right-wing) Democrats and Republicans can finally implement the draconian measures they...
Four Ways the Debt-Ceiling Deal Will Affect You Personally
How is this deal likely to affect your household? If you're in the top 1% of earners, there's no need to read any further because it probably won't affect you personally. Here are five ways it's likely to affect the rest of us: 1. You'll be less likely to find a job...
Hangover
This morning's hangover is worse than expected so bear with me. The good news is that we can finally stop talking about the debt ceiling and start talking about jobs. There's nothing we can do about that now, but maybe something will magically happen if we just say...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/1/2011
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: Capitulation...
Capitulation
The raw deal on the budget ceiling has been cut. The Tea Party terrorists – the extremist faction willing to hold the economy hostage to get their way – have won. The Republic, common sense and decency have been trampled. With the economy deeply depressed, 25 million...
Doing Debt Ceiling Battle the FDR Way
At times of national fiscal crisis, President Franklin Roosevelt ever so firmly believed, you don't give the awesomely affluent a free pass. You pound them — and then you pound them some more. Against a Congress where zealously rich people-friendly conservatives hold...
The Peoples Budget Balances The Budget -- Why Isnt It Part Of These Deficit Talks
The Congress is fighting over how to cut the 10-year deficit, and this fight is at the edge of putting the country into default. The thing is, all of the things that polls show the public wants our government to do are off the table in these discussions. The public is...
Congress Should Wake Up We Have a Jobs Crisis Not a Debt Crisis
Get out the togas; Congress is fiddling while Rome burns. As the grim economic numbers show, this economy is barely moving, crippled by government cutbacks that once more cost jobs. 25 million people are in need of full time work, a number that is growing as the...
