by Isaiah J. Poole | May 2, 2011 | Blog
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said on Sunday that the so-called "Gang of Six"—three Democratic and three Republican senators trying to forge a deficit-reduction deal—has made "enormous progress" toward its goal. Don't...
by Dave Johnson | May 2, 2011 | Blog
Republicans took the unemployed hostage and won huge tax cuts for the rich that greatly worsened the deficits. Then they took the government hostage, threatening to shut it down if they didn't get what they wanted, and won big concessions. Now they are threatening to...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 1, 2011 | Blog
America's top bankers and CEOs don't have any more talent than millions of other Americans. They do have, two timely new data dumps remind us, plenty of generous friends in pivotal places. We Americans, former Reagan White House budget director David Stockman told a...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 30, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
The President's plane touched down at Tuscaloosa Regional Airport at 10 am this morning, local time. That's Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. These are the moments that bring us together as a nation, and as people. Just like 9/11 did, before people used it to divide us. I...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 29, 2011 | Blog
The Republicans voted to phase out Medicare and use the money for even more tax cuts for the rich. The public found out and turned out. So now they are coming up with new ways to mask the same thing. They call them "triggers," "across-the-board cuts" and "spending...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 29, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
Sometimes you can just see glimmers of something through the DC brain fog, other times it becomes so clear that you can't ignore it. The current DC brain-fog motto is, "if it doesn't work, do it more." Today's GDP-growth report shows that austerity isn't working, so...
