by Bill Scher | Jul 30, 2012 | Blog
At yesterday's Jerusalem fundraiser, Mitt Romney praised Israel's single-payer, government-run health care system as better than America's. The NY Times quoted Romney as saying: You spend eight percent of G.D.P. on health care. You’re a pretty healthy nation. We spend...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 30, 2012 | Blog
The New York Times contains another elite-columnist attack on our Social Security and Medicare systems today. This time it's in the form of an op-ed by Bill Keller. Recently and regularly, New York Times columnists David Brooks and Tom Friedman have also gone after...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 30, 2012 | Blog
The movers and shakers of scandal-ridden Wall Street are busy scapegoating a 'few rotten apples' — and hoping the rest of us don't notice they're still holding billions in ill-gotten gains. . Remember Ina Drew? This past spring Drew had her 15 minutes of fame as the...
by Bill Scher | Jul 29, 2012 | Blog
This week the House, like the Senate last week, is expected to vote on competing tax bills: a Democratic proposal that would allow the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy to expire as scheduled while extending them for the middle-class, and a Republican proposal that will...
