by Dave Johnson | Aug 8, 2013 | Blog
"People are living longer so we have to increase the Social Security age." You hear that a lot. Here is why this is just wrong. "Life expectancy" is a technical term used in statistics. It almost always means "life expectancy at birth" instead of what people think it...
by Digby | Aug 8, 2013 | Blog
David wrote about this Carville-Greenberg polling memo showing that seniors seem to be changing their minds about policy and the GOP. Its summary starts like this: There’s something going on with seniors: It is now strikingly clear that they have turned sharply...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 7, 2013 | Blog
President Obama’s Justice Department, under the direction of Attorney General Eric Holder, hasn’t indicted a single bank executive for the massive Wall Street crime wave that devastated the economy. The regulatory reform that followed the 2008 crisis wasn’t nearly...
by Thom Hartmann | Aug 7, 2013 | Blog
Many hard-right conservative voters are threatening to sit out the 2014 midterm elections, because they say some Republican lawmakers aren't doing enough to obstruct healthcare and immigration. Even Tea Party favorites, like Senator Marco Rubio, are under attack for...
by Digby | Aug 7, 2013 | Blog
I have my doubts that this will result in a change of heart among conservatives about the wisdom of cutting necessary government services, but it's at least possible. This is from Ari Melber on the judicial system's reaction to sequestration cuts hitting home: “A...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 7, 2013 | Blog
Two stories in the news today illustrate what is happening to the middle class. One story is about numbers showing how the middle is being squeezed. The other is about how people are literally being squished. "The new business model, apparently, is to shrink the...
