by Robert Borosage | Apr 13, 2011 | Blog
On Wednesday, the President will lay out his principles for deficit reduction, responding to the Republican FY 2012 budget put forth by House Budget Chair Rep. Paul Ryan. The Ryan plan is brazen and preposterous. It violates every common sense principle about dealing...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 13, 2011 | Blog
RELATED POST Robert Borosage rates President Obama's speech against his "citizen's guide" to common-sense standards for the budget debate. Earlier this week at The Nation, Melissa Harris-Perry wondered if President Obama lost his ability to "tell the story"—in other...
by Bill Scher | Apr 13, 2011 | Blog
There is so much awful and ridiculous about the House Republican budget that it can be difficult to explain the severity of its impact without getting lost in a blizzard of numbers and jargon. To its authors, that is a feature, not a bug. But why worry about picking...
by | Apr 13, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
Deficit fever has swept through our capital, and President Obama has finally caught it. However, his speech is focusing on the wrong deficit. And that’s because, quite sadly, our political culture is obsessed with the wrong deficit. Yes, the American people want to...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 13, 2011 | Blog
The following was originally published by Politico. With his Wednesday address to the nation, President Barack Obama enters the lists in the debate over the nation’s deficits. His path, no doubt, will contrast with the plan offered by House Budget Committee Chairman...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 12, 2011 | Blog
Congratulations! The "grand compromise" will cut nearly thirty nine billion dollars in needed government spending, which proves how "serious" everyone is about reducing the deficit. The grand compromisers could have cancelled the next ten years of tax subsidies for...
