by Bill Scher | Feb 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: The State of the Union Stakes OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "...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...
by Bill Scher | Feb 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Bill Scher | Feb 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
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...
by Bill Scher | Feb 7, 2013 | Economy, The Sequester
The Wall Street Journal editorial board today is counseling Republicans that the looming across-the-board spending cuts known as the "sequester" are "unscary" and preferable to any compromise that would raise more revenue. Why should taking a meat ax to the federal...
by Bill Scher | Feb 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Six Things You Can’t Talk About in Washington OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "The short version of the CBO’s report is: Spending’s going down, but we desperately need jobs. So how did the President and Congress respond? They kept arguing about who’s...