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Progressive Breakfast The Divide
MORNING MESSAGE: The DC/Rest-Of-Us Divide OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: " There is a 'deficit commission' but no jobs commission. There are millions of people needing jobs and millions of jobs that need doing, but Washington won't 'spend,' even on badly-needed...
How To Cut The Deficit Without Stabbing America In The Back
Conservative austerity activists have long sought to whip up deficit hysteria and manipulate Washington into gutting Social Security and Medicare and stifling public investments. But Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a progressive member of the White House deficit commission, has...
Black Voters Turned Out For Democrats Will Democrats Turn Out For Black Voters
A piece of conventional wisdom was debunked today by a new report on the 2010 midterm elections released by the Joint Center for Political Studies. One bottom-line conclusion of this report: It was not the failure of black voters to show up at the polls that caused...
Mourning in America Death of the Middle Class
The deficit commission report issued last week is another Saturday night special pressed to the temple of the American middle class. “Turn over your money and your benefits or your country will die,” the report screams at workers. “You want your country to go...
Republicans Already Forgoing Job Creation Ideas Embrace Job Elimination Ideas
Yesterday I observed that Republican congresspeople literally are not offering any substantive ideas to create jobs. Now, leading Republicans are coalescing around an substantive idea ... for the Federal Reserve to stop trying to create jobs. It is currently the law...
The Feds New Foreclosure Predator Bailout
Despite escalating outrage over rampant foreclosure fraud, the Federal Reserve now appears ready to eviscerate a key mortgage regulation in an effort to spare banks the losses from their own wrongdoing. Even as bank executives preposterously claim to have wronged...
Progressive Breakfast - 11/16/2010
MORNING MESSAGE: Only 6% Prioritize Simpson-Bowles Agenda Only 6% of Americans want Washington to prioritize deficit reduction, yet we are. OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Nearly ten times as many people, 56%, want it to focus on creating jobs and fixing the economy....
Progressive Breakfast Just 6 Share Simpson-Bowles Priorities
MORNING MESSAGE: Only 6% Prioritize Simpson-Bowles Agenda Only 6% of Americans want Washington to prioritize deficit reduction, yet we are. OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Nearly ten times as many people, 56%, want it to focus on creating jobs and fixing the economy....
The Six Percenters
Only 6% of Americans think Congress should concentrate on reducing the deficit or changing the tax code, according to the latest CBS News poll. Nearly ten times as many people, 56%, want it to focus on creating jobs and fixing the economy. Guess which set of policies...
Peter Orszags Good Cop Bad Cop Social Security Routine
Former White House budget director Peter Orszag is taking a new approach in his quest to cut Social Security. He's playing progressive "good cop" to to the ultra-right bad cops of the White House deficit commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. Now that Bowles and...
