by Richard Eskow | Jan 3, 2013 | Blog
Imagine a nation with a terrible problem - one its leaders refuse to discuss. The problem will needlessly drain trillions of dollars from its economy in the next ten years. Now imagine that this problem also robs that nation's citizens of life itself, draining years...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 29, 2012 | Blog
Our nation was gripped by so many fallacies and delusions in 2012 that the whole Mayan calendar end-of-the-world thing didn't even make the list. Even those apocalyptic prophecies were more plausible than the idea that cutting Social Security will help the deficit,...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 25, 2012 | Blog
Despite an epidemic of gun deaths, the river of gun cash never stops flowing. If you follow that river upstream you'll see that its source lies very close to Wall Street. And the river's mouth speaks with the voice of politicians, whose campaign fundraising is...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 25, 2012 | Blog, Chained CPI
This is a moment of moral clarity. Right now there are only two sides in the Social Security debate: the side that says it's acceptable to cut benefits -- in a way that raises taxes for all income except the highest -- and the side that says it isn't. It's time to ask...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 23, 2012 | Blog, Chained CPI
Liberals and progressives who want to cut Social Security? Democrats who want to cut one of their party's signature achievements? "It has been done in your name, or at least in that of your family," said Scrooge. As Christmas Eve approaches, supporters of the "chained...
