by Richard Eskow | Apr 12, 2011 | Blog
Click here to send a message to the President: Don't Dare Cut Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. The President's scheduled to discuss Social Security, Medicare, and the deficit in a speech this Wednesday. Let's hope he isn't about to make a serious mistake. White...
by Bill Scher | Apr 11, 2011 | Blog
Last month, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor literally said Social Security "cannot exist if we want America to be what we want America to be." Then last week, House Budget Committee approved the literal end of Medicare as guaranteed affordable comprehensive health...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 9, 2011 | Blog
House budget-cutters are taking their inspiration from the greatest giveaway — to the rich — artist the nation's capital has ever known. You won’t find many photos with smiles on the face of Andrew Mellon, the U.S. treasury secretary back in the 1920s. The...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 8, 2011 | Blog
"Watch what we do, not what we say" -- famous quote from a Nixon official, explaining that they make up the stuff they say to distract and divert people from understanding what they are doing. They say they are trying to cut deficits. They are doing something else...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 8, 2011 | Blog
Since the election the entire Republican structure, from the bottom to the top, has been rejoicing that they are in a position to shut down the government again. Their radio and TV and blogs and articles and speeches have been talking demanding a shutdown,...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 8, 2011 | Blog
When conservatives start talking "welfare reform," progressives usually respond one of two ways. We either: (a) start inching towards the exits; or (b) stand in open-mouthed wonder, asking one another "Wait, they're not serious, right?" Oh, they're...
