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MORNING MESSAGE: Declare Victory Over The Deficit OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "When it comes to spending cuts, it’s time to follow the advice a general offered when we were mired in Vietnam: Declare victory and get out ... Washington needs to spend more money now...
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MORNING MESSAGE: Declare Victory Over The Deficit OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "When it comes to spending cuts, it’s time to follow the advice a general offered when we were mired in Vietnam: Declare victory and get out ... Washington needs to spend more money now...
Time to Declare Victory Over the Deficit – And Start Fixing Our Real Problems
That deficit problem we keep hearing about is gone. When it comes to spending cuts, it's time to follow the advice a general offered when we were mired in Vietnam: Declare victory and get out. We had a deficit problem, once, although it was never as urgent or as...
Here's Why Republican Talk About Default And Shutdown Is Not An Empty Threat
Politico had an outstanding but truly bone-chilling story yesterday about how appealing the prospects of a default and a government shutdown may be to House Republicans.
According to the piece by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Jake Sherman, forcing a default by not raising the debt ceiling and shutting down the government by not passing a continuing resolution may be the preferred ways to go by a majority of the House GOP caucus no matter what that would mean to the U.S. economy, the Republican Party's overall approval rating, the GOP's prospects for a Senate majority in 2014 or a Republican winning the White House in 2016.
To those of us who have watched Washington operate for a while, this obviously sounds like totally insane, crazy self-destructive behavior by the House GOP.
Walmart To Hire Vets – But At What Wage?
Walmart has announced an initiative to buy more American-made goods and hire more than 100,000 veterans during the next five years. This is great. Will they pay the veterans a living wage? Or will they hand them instructions on how to apply for food stamps? Walmart...
Abolish The Debt Ceiling
The debt-ceiling law is a mistake. All lifting the debt ceiling does is authorize Congress to borrow the money that is needed to pay the bills that Congress has already mandated be paid. Tomorrow representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Hank Johnson (D-GA), Jim Moran...
Call It Corruption Not Ideology
The President of the United States held a press conference with the DC elite press corps. They had the opportunity to ask the President what our government is doing about the nation's most serious problems. They didn't.
Why Not Ask Teachers How They Would Improve Our Schools?
We were sitting in a Starbucks in Arlington, Va. It was our first meeting. Previously, Iowa governor Tom Vilsack and I had talked by phone and exchanged blog posts on education. His campaign staff had reached out to a number of educational bloggers, as he was...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Trade That Hurts United Steelworkers' Leo Gerard: "'Uncertainty' is the pitchfork that corporations now effectively wield to prod politicians into action. It’s a threat, as in, if Congress doesn’t do this or that, such as avoid the fiscal cliff or...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Trade That Hurts United Steelworkers' Leo Gerard: "'Uncertainty' is the pitchfork that corporations now effectively wield to prod politicians into action. It’s a threat, as in, if Congress doesn’t do this or that, such as avoid the fiscal cliff or...
