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Progressive Breakfast - 2/22/2010
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. WH To Post Health Care Proposal...
Our Plutocracy: Some Perspective on an Official Federal Portrait
Never before in modern American history, suggests a new look at America's highest 400 incomes from the IRS, have so few made so much at the expense of so many. Or paid so precious little in taxes. The IRS has released, with not a trace of fanfare, the latest figures...
Create Real Jobs That Pay Off: Update Our 1970's Infrastructure
One legacy of the Reagan tax cuts is that we stopped maintaining - and never mind modernizing - our infrastructure. As a result there is a LOT of work that needs doing. And there are a very, very large number of unemployed people. Hmmm... There are so many more ways...
Whirlpool Bites Hands Of American Taxpayers That Feed It
Whirlpool, recipient of federal stimulus "smart grid" dollars, is closing an Evansville, Indiana freezer-topped refrigerator and icemaker production plant and moving the 1,100 jobs to Mexico. Whirlpool knows that taxpayers will shoulder the unemployment and other...
Will the Public Option Surge Hit The Bipartisan Summit?
The Huffington Post headline states "Public Option Support Surging In Senate" after 18 Senators, with more possible to come, signed a letter calling for the choice of a public health insurance plan to be included in the final health care bill. Now, a surge is not a...
Progressive Breakfast - 2/19/2010
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. Dems Ready Reconciliation Bill...
Will This Study Finally End Democrats' Magical Thinking About the 'Cadillac Tax'?
It's been a fascinating anthropological exercise to watch the health excise tax concept (the so-called "Cadillac tax") keep its popularity among Democratic and liberals, even as one study after another discredits the assumptions behind it. It's the Democratic...
On Bearing Grudges
President Barack Obama doesn't begrudge Wall Street's banksters their bonuses. The president, speaking in an interview, said in response to a question that while $17 million is "an extraordinary amount of money" for Main Street, "there are some baseball...
Yes, Nuclear
I believe that global warming is the most serious threat humanity faces. So we need to use every possible technology we can to replace energy sources that put greenhouse gases into the air. This includes nuclear energy. One big problem with nuclear is figuring out...
Now Obama Owns a Deficit Commission – and Senator Simpson
This morning President Obama signed an executive order creating a National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. This commission is based on an idea promoted by two Senators, Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Judd Gregg (R-N.H.). Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max...
