by Robert Borosage | Mar 22, 2012 | Blog
Yesterday, House Republicans rolled out their budget plan in the Washington version of a Hollywood movie opening. There was a star turn for Budget Chair Paul Ryan at a conservative think tank. Gaseous rhetoric -- "liberties endangered, time to choose" -- fouled the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 22, 2012 | Blog
As a mark-up session for the House Republican budget for fiscal 2013 was taking place in the House Budget Committee hearing room, members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus were outside presenting the outlines of their alternative, designed to put jobs and...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 22, 2012 | Blog
By now most people have heard some of the worst things about the Republican budget proposal - commonly called the "Ryan plan" and unironically described by the GOP as "the Path to Prosperity": That it decimates programs for middle class and lower-income Americans...
by Bill Scher | Mar 22, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Last year, when the House Republican leadership introduced its budget, they tried to pretend that giant tax cuts for the wealthy and the obliteration of most government functions would create jobs. They commissioned right-wing propaganda shop The Heritage Foundation...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 22, 2012 | Blog
The new Republican budget plan: Smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke. Tax cuts for the 1%, cuts in the things We, the People do for each other. Smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke,...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 21, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
You have probably heard about a solar-energy company named Solyndra, but probably what you have heard is a bunch of negative, conspiratorial, anti-alternative-energy, anti-Obama stuff from the corporate/conservative spin machine. The real story is that our government...
