by Bill Scher | Dec 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
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: Privatizing...
by Bill Scher | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
Today, presidential candidate Mitt Romney outlines his "jobs" plan in USA Today, by asserting that: "All too often ... government gets in the way. The past three years of unparalleled government expansion have retaught that lesson all too well." Funny that Romney's...
by Bill Scher | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog
Last Thursday, presidential candidate Mitt Romney said, "the people who need the help most are not the poor, who have a safety net." Two days later, his economic adviser Gregory Mankiw wrote in the New York Times, "To maintain current levels of taxation, we will need...
by Bill Scher | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog
If you were waiting for an economic plan from presidential candidate Mitt Romney that helps the poor, you might be waiting for a while. Stumping in Iowa last Thursday, Romney explicitly stated that helping the poor need not be a top priority -- "In our country, the...
by Bill Scher | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog
It has come to this. The Republican primary race has become so sad that even Newt Gingrich gets a turn at playing frontrunner. He has long conned much of conservative movement and the Washington media into treating him as some sort of intellectual giant, when his...
