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How Soon Will You Go Bankrupt Under the New GOP Budget
Rep. Paul Ryan's getting a lot of attention for a chart he's using to publicize the new Republican budget: You know what's funny? I was just projecting the effect of that budget on the average retiree's household budget: I wish I were kidding, but I'm not. These are...
Making The Tough Decisions
Sometimes I think that the best thing that the only way our country is going to survive is if all of our political elites are forced to live like an average American for the next two years. And by average, I don't mean the delusional upper middle class, highly...
Progressive Breakfast - 4/7/2011
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: GOP Budget Serves...
Progressive Breakfast
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: GOP Budget Serves...
Obama Gets It Right On Education - Really
Last week, President Obama gave us a clear perspective of what's wrong with current education policies and a positive vision for where they should be going. In a townhall meeting, he lamented that current education policies have "piled on a lot of standardized tests...
Budget Battle Who Is Our Country FOR
Who is our country for? Is this a country for We, the People, where all of us are banded together to protect and empower each other, together? Or is this a country where a powerful few reap all the benefits, and the rest of us are little more than "the help?" That is...
Republican Shutdown Shuts Down The Economy -- So Do The Cuts They Demand
VIDEO Progressive Caucus co-chairman Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., and other members of the Progressive Caucus react to Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal. Here we are only four months into Republican control of the House of Representatives and the government is shutting...
Court Race Throws a Spanner in the Works of Wisconsin Wingnuts
While Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan prepares to shut down the federal government to prove that government is bad, analysts say the radical agenda of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker suffered a major set back today as his good friend incumbent Justice David Prosser...
Getting Worried
Charlie Cook can hardly believe what he's seeing: [T]alking with Republican pollsters, strategists and veteran campaign professionals recently, I now hear sounds of concern that haven’t been heard in almost two years. Among the worries the party now has is that a...
Pay Back the Money Borrowed From Social Security
Throughout its 75 year history, Social Security has provided critical economic security to millions of retirees, families, children and the disabled. Social Security is paid for by the dedicated contributions of workers and their employers, has administrative costs of...
