by Bill Scher | Feb 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Sequestering Hope OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "Moderation in a madhouse is a dubious virtue. A balanced dose of poison may mask, but doesn’t stop the damage. Yet, this is what the president was reduced to in Washington Mad Hatter Budget Debate...
by Bill Scher | Feb 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Help The Progressive Caucus Disarm The Austerity Bomb OurFuture.org's Dave Johnson: "The sequester is an 'austerity bomb' of budget cuts that will hit the economy so hard that a recession is nearly guaranteed ... Today the Progressive Caucus co-chairs...
by Bill Scher | Feb 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: 14 Reasons To Repeal The Sequester OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "It’s been four years since Wall Street ruined the economy, we’re nearly nine million jobs behind where we need to be, and for years our politicians have debated how much less – not how...
by Bill Scher | Feb 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: SOTU Must Tackle Trade OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "The U.S. trade deficits are back up – over $1 billion a day. For all the talk about insourcing, companies have used the recession to continue to ship good jobs abroad. China and its Asian...
by Bill Scher | Jan 25, 2013 | Blog
To get House conservatives to capitulate on temporarily suspending the debt limit without securing any spending cuts, Boehner made a stunning pledge: the upcoming House budget would eliminate the deficit in 10 years. As a talking point, that sounds great. As a budget,...
