by Dave Johnson | Mar 2, 2013 | Blog
Republicans insist on cutting and gutting the things government does to make our lives better because, they say, "we're broke." Meanwhile a new study by Congress’ Government Accountability Office (GAO) shows that in 2010 the big U.S. companies paid only 12.6% in taxes...
by Diane Archer | Feb 28, 2013 | Blog
-In his extraordinarily well-documented expose on the medical-industrial complex for Time magazine, "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us,” Steven Brill explains thoroughly and repeatedly what serious pundits, policy experts and policymakers have failed to...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 28, 2013 | Blog
The pro-corporate, anti-majority political class is sustaining itself with a lot of self-serving myths these days. Guess you need to do that when you're dismantling the social contract. In the closed society that is Insider Washington, rites and mythologies are used...
by Bill Scher | Feb 25, 2013 | Blog
MORNING MESSAGE: Washington’s Stupid, Destructive Game OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "...as this stupid game goes on – how much do we cut, and where? – Washington’s past flings with austerity madness are already carving chunks out of our economy. The GDP, which grew...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 23, 2013 | Blog
What more vivid symbol of the indignity our corporate-driven inequality imposes than the Carnival Triumph cruise ship. Thousands of people adrift, going nowhere in a nightmare of sewage and stench, while a billionaire chief exec sits far away in a courtside seat and...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 22, 2013 | Blog
I noticed something interesting in this USA Today report, Moody's cuts U.K.'s AAA credit rating, Credit ratings agency Moody's Investors Service has downgraded Britain's government bond rating one notch from the top AAA to AA1, citing weaknesses in the economy's...
