by Bill Scher | Apr 5, 2011 | Blog, Economy
With Congress furiously negotiating as the clock ticks towards government shutdown, the focus of the 2011 budget talks is almost all on how much spending to cut -- precisely what our job-starved economy doesn't need right now. But now that House Budget Chair Paul Ryan...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 5, 2011 | Blog
How often have you looked up from a "news report" in disgust at the way our modern news media tries to be cover for conservative lunacy and extremism? There is a template that stamps out the false equivalences: "Both sides do it." They find something extreme written...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 5, 2011 | Blog
This morning Representative Jan Schakowsky responded to Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's statement that Social Security and Medicare "cannot exist if we want America to be what we want America to be." Schakowsky said, “There are two stark visions of our...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 5, 2011 | Blog
I attended a We Are One event in Redwood City, California, at "Courthouse Square." The early-evening event was well-attended with maybe 250 people and a number of speakers. Most local media ignored the event. The San Francisco Chronicle had a story, We Are One rallies...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 5, 2011 | Blog
Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan will push rising health care costs onto those least able to afford them – the elderly, the disabled and the poor. It will do nothing to curb the rising costs imposed by the powerful complexes – insurance and drug companies, private...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 5, 2011 | Blog
For most people the "American Dream" is to be in the middle class, or to raise yourself up to be in the middle class. And people used to expect that things would get better over time for all of us. But today more people are going the other way. Many people are finding...
