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The House Republican Budget Eliminates Nearly All Of Our Government Im Not Exaggerating
There is so much awful and ridiculous about the House Republican budget that it can be difficult to explain the severity of its impact without getting lost in a blizzard of numbers and jargon. To its authors, that is a feature, not a bug. But why worry about picking...
The Wrong Deficit
Deficit fever has swept through our capital, and President Obama has finally caught it. However, his speech is focusing on the wrong deficit. And that’s because, quite sadly, our political culture is obsessed with the wrong deficit. Yes, the American people want to...
Not Needed An Accountant In Chief
The following was originally published by Politico. With his Wednesday address to the nation, President Barack Obama enters the lists in the debate over the nation’s deficits. His path, no doubt, will contrast with the plan offered by House Budget Committee Chairman...
Why Progressives Keep On Losing and the Right Keeps On Winning
Congratulations! The "grand compromise" will cut nearly thirty nine billion dollars in needed government spending, which proves how "serious" everyone is about reducing the deficit. The grand compromisers could have cancelled the next ten years of tax subsidies for...
Did Koch Industries Write The Budget Deal
Did Koch Industries write the budget deal? Or is it just a coincidence that so many of the the things Republicans demanded -- and got -- just happen to line up with the financial interests of the billionaires who fund the Tea Party and much of the “conservative...
Why Arent The Honest Bankers Demanding Prosecutions Of Their Dishonest Rivals
This is the second column in a series responding to Stephen Moore's central assaults on regulation and the prosecution of the elite white-collar criminals who cause our recurrent, intensifying financial crises. Last week's column addressed his claim in a recent Wall...
Cutting The Economy And Jobs
Cuts are all the rage now in Versailles D.C. They cut taxes for the rich (again), then to pay for the tax cuts they cut the things We the People (government) do for each other. No one is mentioning what all of this will do to the economy and jobs. Jobs and the economy...
Progressive Breakfast - 4/12/2011
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: Don't Do It, Mr....
Colombia FTA Rewarding Promises Instead of Performance
Tragically, the government of Colombia exhibits the behavior of an addict. And, just as regrettably, the United States is co-dependent, so addicted to so called free trade that it plans to award Colombia an agreement based solely on promises. Addicts always promise....
Dont Do It Mr President Dont Cut Social Security or Medicare
Click here to send a message to the President: Don't Dare Cut Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. The President's scheduled to discuss Social Security, Medicare, and the deficit in a speech this Wednesday. Let's hope he isn't about to make a serious mistake. White...
