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Sequester: The Finger on the Trigger
Today is the day the package of budget cuts they call the "Sequester" takes effect. There will be endless postmortems and realtime analyses. But as its draconian effects, there’s one thing to remember above all: Congress did this. We’ve criticized both the President’s...
Putting A Foot Down: The Sequester And The Tarheel State
In the last several years, new economic terms have entered the American lexicon. Debt ceiling, fiscal cliff, sequestration. Well, we reached a deal on the first one, though it lowered our credit rating, and eventually took a few steps away from the fiscal cliff,...
Sequester's Impact: Destroying the American Brand
The simple truth is, as individuals and a nation we pay most for what we value most. Conservatives in Congress have made it clear that they value corporations and the wealthiest over the middle class and American as a whole. The sequester has brought to light the true...
BREAKING: Rep. John Conyers Introduces Bill To Repeal Sequester
For weeks the Campaign for America's Future has been rallying the public, pressuring Congress to simply repeal the sequester. And now, Rep. John Conyers has answered our call. He has introduced a bill so simple even Herman Cain will read it. The entire substance of...
Sequester Will Hit Communities Of Color Hard
Most of the general public may not feel the immediate shock waves of the manufactured ticking time bomb Congress set to go off at midnight Friday, but individuals relying the most on local and federal programs will feel it first. At the epicenter of the man-made...
Buy America Policies Are Boosting American Manufacturers
Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff has a guest-post at the DOT's Fast Lane. He writes that "Buy America" requirements in government infrastructure projects are boosting American manufacturers.
End Price Gouging: Time's Steven Brill Article And The Next Chapter In Health Reform
-In his extraordinarily well-documented expose on the medical-industrial complex for Time magazine, "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us,” Steven Brill explains thoroughly and repeatedly what serious pundits, policy experts and policymakers have failed to...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The Truth and Consequences of Sequestration OurFuture.org's Terrance Heath: "It’s hard for anyone except the most committed conservative conspiracy theorist to think that the Obama administration actually wants the sequestration cuts to happen....
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The Truth and Consequences of Sequestration OurFuture.org's Terrance Heath: "It’s hard for anyone except the most committed conservative conspiracy theorist to think that the Obama administration actually wants the sequestration cuts to happen....
If Government "Acted Like a Business" It Would Reject Today's Deficit Madness
The pro-corporate, anti-majority political class is sustaining itself with a lot of self-serving myths these days. Guess you need to do that when you're dismantling the social contract. In the closed society that is Insider Washington, rites and mythologies are used...
