by Roger Hickey | Jul 6, 2011 | Blog
The following is an statement distributed to the news media earlier today. You can call on your representatives in Congress to support a deficit reduction plan based on "shared sacrifice" and a 50-50 split between spending cuts and tax increases on the wealthy by...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 6, 2011 | Blog, Chained CPI
Don't look now, but someone rolled a Trojan Horse right into the middle of the debt deal negotiations. Funny thing is, Democrats don't seem to recognize it as such. Maybe nobody's ever told them the story of the Trojan Horse. The good news is that there are no Greek...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 6, 2011 | Blog, Chained CPI
So, just when it looked like President Obama was finally calling the GOP's bluff debt ceiling negotiations, it turns out he was preparing to fold. Obama administration officials are offering to cut tens of billions of dollars from Medicare and Medicaid in negotiations...
by Bill Scher | Jul 5, 2011 | Blog
Today, Speaker Boehner promoted a statistic concocted by the Weekly Standard claiming that President Obama's Recovery Act (aka "the stimulus") cost $278,000 per job. The stat is simply the overall cost of the Recovery Act, both the government spending and the tax...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 5, 2011 | Blog
For years people have been asking why we don’t launch a national effort to save energy and create jobs by retrofitting buildings to be more energy-efficient. Last week I wrote that even simple things, like painting roofs white can save energy and employ a lot of...
