by Terrance Heath | Oct 17, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Health, Retirement Security, Shutdown, This Is The GOP
Remember in 2009, when Jim DeMint said health care reform would be President Obama's Waterloo? Four years later, defunding health care reform became the GOP's Alamo. But Republicans aren't done damaging their party, or the rest of the country, yet. Not by a long shot....
by Digby | Oct 16, 2013 | Current Issues, Economy, Retirement Security
I know there is no more trite phrase in America, but Lord, this Thomas Friedman column is bad. It's so bad you have to read the whole thing to experience the full horror of it. In fact, I'm not even sure he wrote it himself. It reads more like something the messaging...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 7, 2013 | Retirement Security
David Sirota, the author of the Institute for America's Future report on "The Plot Against Pensions" that detailed the right-wing collaboration to dismantle public pension programs around the country, is now reporting in Salon that "the Enron billionaire whose former...
by Damon Silvers | Oct 4, 2013 | Retirement Security, Shutdown
The heads of the country’s largest banks and stock brokers came to Washington, D.C., Thursday to meet with President Barack Obama. Washington is the center of our national hostage drama—to use an old phrase, D.C. is the kidnap house. But we have seen this part of the...
by Emily Foster | Oct 3, 2013 | Chained CPI, Retirement Security
Activists joined with members of Congress to form a human chain at the Capitol on Thursday to rebuke the Republicans’ latest “entitlement reform” scheme, the “chained CPI.” Twenty members of Congress, including members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and other...
by Digby | Sep 25, 2013 | Economy, Retirement Security, The Jobs Challenge
There's a lot of resentment toward baby boomers among young people out there and often for a very good reason. We are an insufferably self-centered lot. (And the generation that famously used "never trust anyone over 30" as its credo is in no position to complain.) In...
