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Another New York Times Columnist Attack on Social Security And Medicare
The New York Times contains another elite-columnist attack on our Social Security and Medicare systems today. This time it's in the form of an op-ed by Bill Keller.
The Rich: Once We 'Clawed Back' Them All
The movers and shakers of scandal-ridden Wall Street are busy scapegoating a 'few rotten apples' — and hoping the rest of us don't notice they're still holding billions in ill-gotten gains.
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Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security.
MORNING MESSAGE: The "Let's Cut Taxes For Mitt Romney And His Heirs" Bill
Progressive Breakfast
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security.
MORNING MESSAGE: The "Let's Cut Taxes For Mitt Romney And His Heirs" Bill
The "Let's Cut Taxes For Mitt Romney and His Heirs" Bill
This week the House, like the Senate last week, is expected to vote on competing tax bills: a Democratic proposal that would allow the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy to expire as scheduled while extending them for the middle-class, and a Republican proposal that will keep the Bush
Tax Vote Shows GOP Well-Aware Of Media Impunity
Try this on for size: This week Republicans voted to cut them on the wealthy, while raising them on the poor and middle class. Repeat, this week Republicans voted to cut them on the wealthy, while raising them on the poor and middle class.
GDP Diagnosis: Worst Congress Ever
Ask half a dozen people about the latest report on gross domestic product (GDP), and you're likely to get half a dozen answers about just
You are all too familiar with the myths and hyperbole the right uses to foist its debilitating austerity agenda on the general public — that federal spending is out of control and the government itself is too big, that our tax burden has become untenable (cue the waving "Taxed Enough Already" signs) and that the budget proposals advanced by the House Republicans won't affect the things even most The press has had a field day highlighting British reactions to Romney’s mild criticism of the Olympic preparations. Tory P.M David Cameron slaps him down. London Mayor Boris Johnson scorns him before a crowd of 60,000. Tabloid press goes off. Much tut-tutting on how this undermines his foreign policy credentials, etc. He speaks a tiny bit more clearly, but he's just as big a clod on the international stage as George W. Bush:
Making Sense Of Federal Spending And Taxes: Two Videos You Must See
Romney in London: the Gaffe and the Graft
Junior And The Mittster Have Something Else In Common
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