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The SOTU of Our Dreams
Bill Moyers asked a bunch of smart people what they would like to see the President say in the State of the Union address this year. Their answers are all good and I urge you to read them. if we could put them all together it would make a hell of a speech. The one...
No Budget No Pay Really Means No Budget
Anyone who thinks H.R. 325 -- the No Budget No Pay law that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) wants everyone to believe will do so much and be so important -- will, in fact, make any difference is both falling for Boehner's spin and doesn't understand how the congressional budget process really works.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: The Postal Service Outrage OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "The story of the intentional destruction of the U.S. Postal Service is one more piece of the story of crisis-after-crisis, all manufactured to advance the strategic dismantling of our...
The State of the Union Stakes
The president has little choice but to focus on the central challenge now facing the country – and his emerging progressive coalition today. That is the same challenge that drove the original progressive movement – an economy scarred by extreme and corrupting inequality that works only for the few and not the many. This is, as the president put it in his speech at Osowatomie, Kansas, the make or break moment for the middle class – and for all those who aspire to join it.
You Should Be Outraged By What Is Being Done To Our Postal Service
You are probably hearing that the Post Office is "in crisis" and is cutting back Saturday delivery, laying people off, closing offices, etc. Like so many other "crises" imposed on us lately, there is a lot to the story that you are not hearing from t
The Scruffy and the Stuffy Agree: Cap CEO Pay
From hiking trails in Oregon to boardrooms in Berlin, critics of our staggeringly unequal corporate order are calling for new limits that link executive compensation to worker paychecks.
Increasing Social Security Benefits: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Archaeologists of the future will sift through our newspapers, websites, and other ephemera and marvel at the inverted shape of our political debate. They'll be particularly surprised to discover that, at a time when retirement security was being destroyed for an...
Defending The Sequester
Poor Krugman. He must be tired of trying to make people understand that austerity is the wrong prescription for the economy. But he soldiers on. Thank God. This week he takes on the situational Keynesians of the GOP who are now crying about the ill economic...
What's Now Happening On Federal Budget is Worse Than The Fiscal Cliff
This month’s budget breakfast group meeting was even more extraordinary than usual for one reason: The same people who typically analyze what’s ahead on the budget with remarkable precision months before it happens all basically admitted that the current situation is as complex, hard to read, and even harder to predict than any they’ve ever seen.
Here are the moving pieces.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Fix The Trade Deficit. Fix The Economy. OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "Yet another report is out showing how the trade deficit is costing us millions of jobs and hurting our economy. This report has specific numbers: between 2.2 million and 4.7...
