by Thom Hartmann | Mar 8, 2013 | Blog
House Republicans won't give up on their efforts to voucher-ize Medicare. In fact, Representative Paul Ryan now wants to make it happen even sooner. As the House GOP is currently preparing their new budget, which will include Ryan's Medicare voucher program, and they...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 7, 2013 | Blog
While Washington remains self-absorbed in budget deficit arguments over who can cut more of the things We, the People do to make our lives better. Meanwhile January's trade deficit numbers are out, showing where the real damage is being done. The U.S. international...
by Stan Collender | Mar 7, 2013 | Blog
This is not a post about House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) exercise and diet program. It is, however, a post about how he's planning to produce a budget that gets to balance in 10 years without actually balancing anything. What Ryan is proposing is...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 7, 2013 | Blog
Yesterday we saw what a filibuster should be. Senator Rand Paul did it the right way by talking and talking, and he got his point across. Interestingly, what Senator Paul did is what the public thinks a filibuster already is. Except it isn't. In recent years Senate...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 7, 2013 | Blog
This week the Swiss people voted to limit bonuses for the high-paid executives they call “fat cats.” Last month shareholders at the largest too-big-to-fail bank revamped the bonus system for their senior executives. And the European Union agreed last month to impose...
by Katrina vanden Heuvel | Mar 6, 2013 | Blog
On Friday at midnight, the sequester kicked in, triggering $85 billion in deep, dumb budget cuts that sent “nonessential personnel”— such as air traffic controllers—packing. Not to worry, though: Wall Street’s day was pretty much like any other. Billions of dollars in...
