by Roger Hickey | Nov 18, 2012 | Blog, Economy
For years now, various gangs of senators - the Gang of Eight, or Six, or 14 - have declared dire deficit emergencies and called for austerity: Cut public spending and cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits, they tell us. And, bizarrely, most of these...
by Roger Hickey | Nov 13, 2012 | Blog
Election Day was a smashing victory for progressives and middle-class populism. But the deficit hysterics, budget slashers and Social Security haters refuse to heed our voices. Within hours of the election, the austerity posse was fear-mongering around the so-called...
by Roger Hickey | Nov 9, 2012 | Blog, Economy
In addressing the deficit today, President Obama opened his remarks with the crucial truth: “at a time when our economy’s still recovering from the great recession, our top priority has to be jobs and growth. That’s the focus of the plan that I talked about during the...
by Roger Hickey | Sep 27, 2012 | Blog
They call it the "fiscal cliff," but it's Social Security that's going to be pushed over it, unless we speak out now. The forces of austerity in Washington are using the prospect of automatic spending cuts and tax increases at the end of the year to pressure Congress...
by Roger Hickey | Sep 10, 2012 | Blog
President Obama is enjoying a post-convention bump in job approval (Gallup says 7 percentage points – from 45 to 52 percent) after the negative and divisive Republican convention, followed by the energetic populism of the Democrats in Charlotte. With large leads among...
