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Progressive Breakfast - 1/5/2011
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Issa Goes...
Republican-Hood Steal from the Workers; Pander to the Rich
Robin Hood, the guy who robbed the rich and gave to the poor, wore a short frock and tights. From the get-go, the guy serving the disadvantaged while sporting gay attire would fail the entrance exam required to become a card-carrying Republican. The GOP is, after all,...
Take A Hot Tub Time Machine Trip To 2009 When Conservatives Loved The CBO
The conservative response to the Congressional Budget Office analysis that health care reform will cut the deficit more than $1 trillion over the next two decades is simply to call the nonpartisan analysts liars. For some reason, when the CBO was harshly criticizing...
Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: "Gut Or Shut" --...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/4/2011
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: "Gut Or Shut" --...
America Needs An Industrial Policy
Over the weekend Daily Kos ran a front-page story, America needs an industrial policy, making the point that Germany is doing well because their government understands that a national policy of promoting manufacturing drives the economy and jobs. There is a simple...
Top Ten Ways The Right Will Wreck The Recovery
Conservatives have a legislative agenda for 2011 that will hurt your ability to get or keep a job, your neighborhood's ability to recover from the recession and this country's ability to regain its footing in the global economy. To keep conservatives from enacting...
The Working Poor Americas Invisible Economic Other
Earlier this week, I made a case for an investment agenda for America. Now, a report from The Working Poor Families Project has underscored the urgent need for an economic agenda based on investing in the American people and preparing our workforce not just to compete...
The GOP and the Banks Cutting the Garlic Budget As the Vampires Attack
Van Helsing: "The strength of the vampire is that nobody will believe in him." America's debt to Wall Street has soared since 1945 - and although the banks were rescued at public expense, the public's been left holding the bag for the recent drop in housing prices:...
How Conservatives Are Destroying Your Retirement
We have to stop letting conservatives get away with the line that state and local governments, as well as corporations, are in trouble with their employee retirement plans because greedy employee unions extracted promises from their employers that they could not keep....
