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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...
Sen Conrad Unifies Dems Against Ryan Yes Kent Conrad
House Budget chairman Paul Ryan’s budget resolution has been rightly condemned by anyone who cares about economic recovery, Medicare, Medicaid, public investment, programs for the poor and disadvantaged, tax justice, and just plain honesty in budgeting. The Huffington...
Progressive Breakfast - 4/6/2011
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: Sen. Conrad...
Battle Of The Budgets President Obama 15M New Jobs Rep Ryan Less Than Zero
With Congress furiously negotiating as the clock ticks towards government shutdown, the focus of the 2011 budget talks is almost all on how much spending to cut -- precisely what our job-starved economy doesn't need right now. But now that House Budget Chair Paul Ryan...
Shutdown Will The Media Report What Happened
How often have you looked up from a "news report" in disgust at the way our modern news media tries to be cover for conservative lunacy and extremism? There is a template that stamps out the false equivalences: "Both sides do it." They find something extreme written...
Rep Schakowsky Responds To Republican Call To Abolish Social Security
This morning Representative Jan Schakowsky responded to Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's statement that Social Security and Medicare "cannot exist if we want America to be what we want America to be." Schakowsky said, “There are two stark visions of our...
One We Are One Event In Redwood City CA
I attended a We Are One event in Redwood City, California, at "Courthouse Square." The early-evening event was well-attended with maybe 250 people and a number of speakers. Most local media ignored the event. The San Francisco Chronicle had a story, We Are One rallies...
Ryans Roadmap To Ruin
Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan will push rising health care costs onto those least able to afford them – the elderly, the disabled and the poor. It will do nothing to curb the rising costs imposed by the powerful complexes – insurance and drug companies, private...
If You Are Or Want To Be In The Middle Class
For most people the "American Dream" is to be in the middle class, or to raise yourself up to be in the middle class. And people used to expect that things would get better over time for all of us. But today more people are going the other way. Many people are finding...
