by Ben Johnson | Mar 1, 2013 | The Sequester
President Obama’s State of the Union address highlighted the importance of keeping medical and scientific research fully funded by the federal government. “Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the space race,”...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 1, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage, The Sequester
Someone asked the Master about the principles of … traveling into the vast inane. – From the Bao Pu Zi, AD 320, Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China Welcome to the vast inane. Today the “sequester” – mindless, across the board cuts of military and...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 1, 2013 | The Sequester
The Truth and Consequences of Sequestration, Pt. 2 Earlier I wrote that truth about the sequester is that White House prescribed it as antidote to the "fever" that had driven the GOP into such delirium that the Republicans were ready to crash the economy and take the...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 1, 2013 | The Sequester
Today is the day the package of budget cuts they call the "Sequester" takes effect. There will be endless postmortems and realtime analyses. But as its draconian effects, there’s one thing to remember above all: Congress did this. We’ve criticized both the President’s...
by Richard Long | Feb 28, 2013 | The Sequester
In the last several years, new economic terms have entered the American lexicon. Debt ceiling, fiscal cliff, sequestration. Well, we reached a deal on the first one, though it lowered our credit rating, and eventually took a few steps away from the fiscal cliff,...
by Derek Pugh | Feb 28, 2013 | The Sequester
The simple truth is, as individuals and a nation we pay most for what we value most. Conservatives in Congress have made it clear that they value corporations and the wealthiest over the middle class and American as a whole. The sequester has brought to light the true...
