by Bill Scher | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog
Last Thursday, presidential candidate Mitt Romney said, "the people who need the help most are not the poor, who have a safety net." Two days later, his economic adviser Gregory Mankiw wrote in the New York Times, "To maintain current levels of taxation, we will need...
by Bill Scher | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog
If you were waiting for an economic plan from presidential candidate Mitt Romney that helps the poor, you might be waiting for a while. Stumping in Iowa last Thursday, Romney explicitly stated that helping the poor need not be a top priority -- "In our country, the...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has unveiled a "Jobs Plan." CAF's Bill Scher celebrates with his post, Romney "Jobs" Plan Latest Attempt To Copy Bush, The Worst Jobs President Since Hoover, Funny that Romney's lesson-learning stops at 2009, and skips...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog
Mitt Romney has very serious ideas for fixing the economy. How do we know? By the typeface. Romney's released a 59-page plan in one of those very, very serious typefaces - Garamond, or Cambria, or Times New Roman - Well, to be honest, I'm not sure which. But trust me....
by Bill Scher | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog
It has come to this. The Republican primary race has become so sad that even Newt Gingrich gets a turn at playing frontrunner. He has long conned much of conservative movement and the Washington media into treating him as some sort of intellectual giant, when his...
