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It's Official
Mark this day. For the first time in history, a Democratic president has officially proposed to cut the Democratic Party's signature New Deal program, Social Security. God help us if the Republicans wise up and take this deal. After all, it's a more conservative budget than even their hero Ronald Reagan ever submitted.
"Little Changed": Dismal Words Of A Jobs Wake-Up Call
Dismal jobs production in March – only 88,000 net jobs created, not sufficient even to cover people coming into the workforce – is a wake-up call to Washington. The weak recovery is now floundering in face of harsh headwinds – the payroll tax hike, the beginnings of...
Progressive Breakfast
Obama Proposes Chained CPI Obama to include Chained CPI in budget proposal. NYT: "President Obama next week will take the political risk of formally proposing cuts to Social Security and Medicare in his annual budget in an effort to demonstrate his willingness to...
Progressive Breakfast
The Sinking American Electorate: Young And In Peril
Millennials – the largest, best educated, and most diverse generation in our nation’s history – have one question for Democrats seeking election in 2014: Do your values really reflect ours? Democrats have reason to worry about what the answer would be from the 80...
Have Wall Street’s “Third Way” Democrats Ever Been Right About Anything?
Have the Wall Street Democrats of “Third Way” or their predecessors in the Clintonite “Democratic Leadership Council” ever been right about an important economic issue?
Fast-Food Worker Strike: "To Proclaim Themselves Fully Human."
I'm talking about his opening monologue about the Thursday fast-food strike in NY, and what this means. At about 1 minute into this clip he talks about why this event is remarkable, and what he says is remarkable.
Republicans Criticize Govt Spending Unless It Lowers Our Wages
Republicans criticize government spending when it is about making our lives better. Of course, by definition all government spending is done to make our lives better. (In a democracy government spending is We, the People deciding how and where to spend the money....
Republicans Criticize Government Spending Unless It Lowers Our Wages
Republicans criticize government spending when it is about making our lives better. Of course, by definition all government spending is done to make our lives better. (In a democracy government spending is We, the People deciding how and where to spend the money....
How Do The Republicans Save Face?
Jonathan Chait flagged this quote from Eric Cantor today and came up with an interesting theory as to why he said it: Mr. Cantor complained that the president, while insisting on additional tax increases, still has not embraced the structural changes to Medicare,...
