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Guess Which Deficit Fetishist Has Been Making Billions Off Of The Misery Of Average Americans?
Yes, Mr Prudent himself, the man who "worries" for your grand kids, has been looting his shareholders for decades. I guess he knows a thing or two about debt, but not in the way you think.
I knew he was a phony, of course, by the fact that he didn't say a peep when the budget was in surplus and the Democrats wanted to use it to shore up Social Security. (I guess he was too busy counting his billions during the tech boom to take the time.) But the minute President Bush pushed through his tax cuts (it's yer muneee!) Peterson jumped back into the fray screaming that the sky is falling, we must cut Social Security.
New Bowles-Simpson Plan Is Just More BS
A quick post about the new Bowles-Simpson plan that was announced yesterday because that's all it deserves: It's a total nonstarter. (If you haven't heard about it, here's Jeanne Sahadi's story from CNMoney.) Bowles and Simpson didn't have enough support to get their...
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MORNING MESSAGE: Push Beyond The Limits Of Obama’s Infrastructure Jobs Plan OurFuture.org's Isaiah Poole: President Obama’s infrastructure investment plan, released officially Wednesday afternoon, is an important step in the direction of what America needs: a...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Push Beyond The Limits Of Obama’s Infrastructure Jobs Plan President Obama’s infrastructure investment plan, released officially Wednesday afternoon, is an important step in the direction of what America needs: a full-employment plan that puts...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Push Beyond The Limits Of Obama’s Infrastructure Jobs Plan President Obama’s infrastructure investment plan, released officially Wednesday afternoon, is an important step in the direction of what America needs: a full-employment plan that puts...
Push Beyond The Limits Of Obama's Infrastructure Jobs Plan
President Obama's infrastructure investment plan, released officially Wednesday afternoon, is an important step in the direction of what America needs: a full-employment plan that puts Americans back to work rebuilding an America of shared prosperity. But it is just a...
You've Heard of the Birthers, Now Meet the Simpson-Bowlers
You've heard of the birthers and the truthers, and probably even the tenthers and the nullifiers. But now it's time to meet the Simpson-Bowlers. Over the past few years, we've heard a lot of crackpot ideas. First there was Donald Trump and his jolly gang of birthers,...
Since Alan Simpson Has the President On the Defensive, House Dems Must Hold the Line
Alan Simpson, along with Erskine Bowles, represents a well-funded cadre of spokespeople who are only willing to present a narrow band of corporate- and billionaire-friendly economic policies. There's just one approach in their world, one which Simpson and Bowles...
Conservatives Manufacture A Fiscal Crisis, Ignore The Real Climate Crisis
The climate in Washington has been heating up as lawmakers brace for the automatic spending cuts come March 1 known as the sequester. However, the only real thing heating up is our climate, and that's where the House GOP prefers to remain silent and cold. In reality,...
Sequester Tango: Boehner Dog-Whistling His Donors
Washington Examiner columnist Byron York is worried that the Republicans aren't as serious about allowing the sequester to happen as he'd like them to be: In a Wall Street Journal op-ed Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner describes the upcoming sequester as a policy...
