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MORNING MESSAGE: Sequester Cuts Confirm GOP Party Of Deadbeat Dads OurFuture.org's Jeff Bryant: "...some of the hardest hit by the budget cuts will be children. Prenatal children will feel the brunt of $353 million in cuts to nutrition, care, and education for their...
Sequester Cuts Confirm Republicans Are Party Of Deadbeat Dads
This post is republished from the Education Opportunity Network, a new online publication edited by Jeff Bryant. It's a popular analogy among fans of the political game to call Republicans the "Daddy Party" and assign "Mommy Party" to Democratic folk. The source of...
While Tax-Evading Corporations Paid Only 12.6%, We Cut Schools
Republicans insist on cutting and gutting the things government does to make our lives better because, they say, "we're broke." The corporate share of all taxes paid has gone from 28% to a third of that, too.
Left and Right Agree: Cut The Pentagon
You wouldn’t know it from the shopping list drawn up for the Pentagon by defense hawks in Congress, but we’re long past the days of contending with a global superpower developing weapons that rival our own and flaunting its military might in menacing, destabilizing...
Obama on Sequester Impact: No Exaggeration To Struggling Families Facing A Pay Cut
The smackdown that President Obama delivered today to people who assert that he and others are exaggerating the impact of the sequestration for dramatic effect is worth publishing in full: Q: What do you say to the people like Mayor Bloomberg -- who is no critic of...
GOP Deficit Outrage Machine Angry IRS Not Closing
Remember when Republicans were so concerned about deficits? Not so much... today they are outraged that the IRS is not being shut down by the sequester and will continue to collect the revenue that reduces deficits. Gosh, do you think maybe deficits are not their real...
Sequester Cuts To Scientific Research Hurt Job Growth
President Obama’s State of the Union address highlighted the importance of keeping medical and scientific research fully funded by the federal government. “Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the space race,”...
Celebrating The 16th Amendment: What We Pay For Civilized Society
Engraved onto the front of the Internal Revenue Service building is Oliver Holmes’ wise words: “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.” This year, the 16th Amendment, which grants Congress the right to levy an income tax, will be 100 years old. The anniversary...
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MORNING MESSAGE: Into The Vast Inane OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "Today the 'sequester' – mindless, across the board cuts of military and domestic spending designed to be abhorrent – will go into effect. Republicans claimed a 'big victory' as House Speaker John...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Into The Vast Inane OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "Today the 'sequester' – mindless, across the board cuts of military and domestic spending designed to be abhorrent – will go into effect. Republicans claimed a 'big victory' as House Speaker John...
