by Roger Hickey | Mar 22, 2010 | Blog
The vote Sunday in the House represents an historic accomplishment! The first House vote passes the Senate health care bill. Now, they will quickly pass the reconciliation fix -- Sunday night -- and get the Senate to vote for the House's improvements. Congratulations...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 20, 2010 | Blog
There is much worry throughout the land about government spending, borrowing, deficits, debt and similar concerns. Conservatives are loudly declaring that the dollar is in danger, that the country is going bankrupt, etc. and are demanding that spending be cut back. In...
by Bill Scher | Mar 20, 2010 | Blog
Yesterday on The Bill Dwight Show, airing on WHMP-AM in Western MA I faced off with local GOP operative Isaac Mass about the pending health care. And I was able to put some persistent right-wing myths to rest about "government takeover," the "Cornhusker Kickback" and...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 19, 2010 | Blog
The other day I wrote about the huge impact from California's Toyota NUMMI plant closing, Toyota takes off with a ton of cash, we pay the costs, it's the way the system is set up -- by us. ... When the plant closes the public takes up the costs -- paying unemployment,...
by Steven Capozzola | Mar 19, 2010 | Blog
The Wall Street Journal says the U.S. is “wrong” to protest China’s “fixed yuan-dollar rate.” Their explanation is that many countries adopt a fixed rate, so as to ensure market stability. China is no different… Actually, that’s not true. If it were correct that most...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 19, 2010 | Blog
Recently we wrote that Sen. Chris Dodd's draft financial reform bill would create a "cumbersome bureaucracy." That wasn't an endorsement of a conservative talking point: The operative word was "cumbersome." The Right likes to use the word "bureaucracy" as an epithet,...
