by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 14, 2011 | Blog, Economy
LISTEN Deborah Weinstein of the Coalition for Human Needs explains how irresponsible federal budget cuts being proposed by conservatives in Congress will ultimately make the economy worse. The federal budget cuts being proposed by conservatives on Capitol Hill are not...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 14, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
The President's budget has just been released, and so has a Republican alternative from the House Appropriations Committee. Reading them is like watching two people play a video game and confusing it for the real world. These budgets don't reflect competing visions so...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 14, 2011 | Blog
With the submission today of the President’s proposed budget for next year (FY 2012), Washington descends further into the furious debate about less. How much less will government do? The president pledges to freeze domestic spending for five years, reducing it to a...
by Bill Scher | Feb 13, 2011 | Blog
Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure the American people didn't vote last November for fewer jobs, teachers and cops and more sickness, pollution and hunger. In fact, I'm sure the crazy one in this story is the House Republican caucus, which late Friday night proposed,...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 13, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
The new Congress was elected by promising things to voters, but now in office they are doing different things. It is as if they said what they needed to say to get votes, but had a plan to do something else all along. The big question on everyone's mind: where is the...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 13, 2011 | Blog, Economy
There were three of us on Warren Olney’s "To the Point" public radio program, one of the more enlightened shows on NPR. But the program, addressing the coming debate on spending cuts, quickly descended into Beltway babble. Stephen Moore, the gleeful right-wing...
