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Flickr/Tony Alter |
Republicans lost the election but they still shape what’s debated in Washington—the federal budget deficit and so-called fiscal responsibility.
Posted on Mar 11, 2013
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Flickr / Abeeeer (CC-BY) |
On Tuesday the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 14,270. The stock market is basically back to where it was in 2000, while corporate earnings have doubled since then. Yet the real median wage is now 8 percent below what it was then and unemployment remains sky-high. Why is the stock market doing so well, while most Americans are doing so poorly? Here are four reasons.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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The White House/Pete Souza |
I’d make clear to the American people that they made a choice in 2012 but that right-wing House Republicans have been blocking that choice, and the only way to implement that choice is for Congress to pass the Build America’s Future Act.
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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AP/stf |
With the sequester now beginning, I find myself thinking about Robert F. Kennedy—and 46 years ago when I was an intern in his Senate office. 1967 was a difficult time for the nation. America was deeply split over civil rights and the Vietnam War. Many of our cities were burning. The war was escalating.
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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Flickr/Seuss |
Sequestration is only the start. What the tea party set out to do was not simply change Washington but eviscerate the U.S. government—“drown it in the bathtub,” in the words of their guru Grover Norquist.
Posted on Mar 3, 2013
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The White House/Pete Souza |
The White House apparently believes the best way to strengthen its hand in the upcoming “sequester” showdown with Republicans is to tell Americans how awful the spending cuts will be, and blame Republicans for them.
Posted on Feb 25, 2013
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Flickr/Steel Wool |
With consumers and government both spending less, businesses won’t hire more workers; they’ll fire more workers. That’s likely to happen in coming months. Anyone with half a brain should be able to understand all this. But apparently many in Washington don’t have half a brain.
Posted on Feb 24, 2013
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Most of us early boomers had planned to retire around now. Those born a few years later had planned to retire in a few years. These plans have gone awry.
Posted on Feb 20, 2013
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Flickr/davidd |
Raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 should be a no-brainer. Republicans say it will cause employers to shed jobs, but that’s baloney.
Posted on Feb 17, 2013
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Flickr/DonkeyHotey |
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says that chamber’s Republicans will unanimously support a balanced-budget amendment, to be unveiled Wednesday as the core of the GOP’s fiscal agenda.There’s no chance of passage so why are Republicans pushing it now?
Posted on Feb 13, 2013
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