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By Garry Wills
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on May 10, 2013
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Reading mass media news articles is unhealthy and causes unhappiness, so stop it; Americans want to know more about socialism, as evidenced by Merriam-Webster’s two most searched entries in 2012; meanwhile the Swedes were dissatisfied with gendered pronouns and have officially incorporated a third, gender-neutral one into their language. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Apr 15, 2013
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By Mattea Kramer, TomDispatch —
If we had a government capable of honoring the collective desire for more jobs, smaller deficits, more education funding, reduced reliance on fossil fuels and Medicare and Social Security benefits preserved, our future could be guaranteed at tax time in no time.
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
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In the name of compromise, bipartisanship and the satisfaction of a ruling class that is indifferent to the suffering of ordinary Americans, President Obama is ready to sell parts of Social Security and Medicare in his attempt to strike an annual budget that satisfies Republicans and reduces the long-term deficit by $1.8 trillion over 10 years, administration officials say.
Posted on Apr 5, 2013
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By Robert Reich — Recent polls show Americans would rather reduce the deficit by raising taxes than by cutting Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, education and transportation. Yet Congress seems incapable of making that kind of deal. Some 65 percent of Americans want to raise taxes on large corporations, but both parties are heading in precisely the opposite direction.
Posted on Mar 31, 2013
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By Robert Reich — If there was ever a time for the Democratic Party to champion working Americans and reverse these troubling trends, it is now — forging an alliance between the frustrated middle and the working poor.
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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Rep. Paul Ryan has figured out a way to balance the budget: Give corporations and wealthy people tax breaks they don’t need while aggressively cutting health and social programs that middle and lower-income Americans do.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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By Robert Reich — 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 only reason President Obama is interested in health care reform is to please big business; Aaron Swartz memorials have become the setting of discussions about transforming the U.S. justice system; meanwhile, Obama’s pick for secretary of the Treasury, Jack Lew, is no stranger to the Cayman Islands. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Feb 13, 2013
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By Paul Krassner —
I grew up never knowing that candy was bad and floss was good. Even as an adult, I’m embarrassed to admit, I used a dollar bill to clean between my teeth. Instead, though, I was actually adding bacteria to my mouth, thereby giving a new, literal meaning to the concept of “dirty money.”
Posted on Feb 7, 2013
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By Robert Reich — Brace yourself. In coming weeks you’ll hear there’s no serious alternative to cutting Social Security and Medicare, raising taxes on middle class, and decimating what’s left of the federal government’s discretionary spending on everything from education and job training to highways and basic research.
Posted on Jan 29, 2013
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By Joe Conason — So much for the “Grand Bargain”—or at least for the not-so-grand gutting of Social Security and Medicare that the “very serious” thought-leaders of Washington political and media circles have always found so appealing.
Posted on Jan 23, 2013
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“Despite such terminology as ‘fiscal cliff’ and ‘debt ceiling,’ ” writes Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., “the great debate taking place in Washington now has relatively little to do with financial issues. It is all about ideology.”
Posted on Jan 9, 2013
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By Robert Reich — It has become accepted economic wisdom, uttered with deadpan certainty by policy pundits and budget scolds on both sides of the aisle, that the only way to get control over America’s looming deficits is to “reform entitlements.”
Posted on Jan 7, 2013
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Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists consider the fiscal cliff deal and the issues it left untouched: the debt ceiling and the threat of “reform” to social services. They also dissect the re-election of John Boehner as speaker of the House as well as the FTC’s decision on Google and antitrust and anti-competition laws.
Posted on Jan 4, 2013
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By Robert Reich — The last time the debt ceiling had to be raised, in 2011, Republicans demanded major cuts in programs for the poor as well as Medicare and Social Security. They got some concessions from the White House but didn’t get what they wanted—which led us to the fiscal cliff. So we’ve come full circle.
Posted on Jan 2, 2013
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“Now that Obama appears poised to push substantial parts of Social Security and Medicare over the ‘fiscal cliff’—in exchange for a paltry, largely symbolic, increase in the top marginal income-tax rate—we might ask whether liberals will once again rise to Obama’s defense, no matter how indefensible his actions,” writes John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper’s Magazine.
Posted on Dec 20, 2012
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By Robert Reich — Why is the president back to making premature and unnecessary concessions to Republicans?
Posted on Dec 20, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — Throughout the country, health professionals, politicians and health care activists are meeting about how to implement the Affordable Care Act now that it has been upheld by the Supreme Court and President Barack Obama’s re-election.
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
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The independent senator from Vermont appeared on MSNBC’s “Politics Nation with Al Sharpton” on Monday to talk about the ongoing budget negotiations between Democrats and Republicans, respectively the winners and losers of last month’s national referendum on economic policy in America.
Posted on Dec 4, 2012
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By Robert Reich — Democrats, here are eight principles to guide you in the coming showdown over the fiscal cliff.
Posted on Dec 3, 2012
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The Nobel Prize-winning economist puts specifics offered by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell through some harsh analysis.
Posted on Dec 2, 2012
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By Sen. Bernie Sanders —
Now is the time to hold Democrats accountable and ensure that we do deficit reduction in a way that is fair, while also protecting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Posted on Nov 28, 2012
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A group of corporate CEOs that contributed to the burgeoning deficit crisis want the poor and elderly to largely pay for the mess the greedy Wall Street fat cats helped create.
Posted on Nov 26, 2012
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A group of CEOs led by Macy’s Terry Lundgren calling itself the Fix the Debt coalition is hoping for a deficit-busting austerity budget this holiday season—not a program to create American jobs.
Posted on Nov 22, 2012
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The president and Congress reaching a “grand bargain” would mean significant cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid; some Republican senators believe Obama is using a Cold War-era mind-control technique on American citizens; meanwhile, millions showed up to the largest coordinated strike Europe has ever seen. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Nov 18, 2012
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At a mid-November meeting of the Defending Social Security Caucus, the Vermont independent issued a fiery warning against cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to President Obama, congressional Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats.
Posted on Nov 17, 2012
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Ralph Nader —
Congress is still talking about a “Grand Bargain” that “balances” far more spending cuts than tax increases. That is another way of saying that you – the consumer of Medicare and Medicaid services, the recipient of Social Security, and the average taxpayer — will take the brunt of the spending cuts.
Posted on Nov 14, 2012
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By Robert Reich — Assuming the goal is $4 trillion of deficit reduction over the next decade (that’s the consensus of the Simpson-Bowles commission, the Congressional Budget Office, and most independent analysts), here’s what the President should propose.
Posted on Nov 12, 2012
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An article by author and economist Jeff Madrick in the November issue of Harper’s Magazine offers an antidote to the view that social spending—not anemic tax revenues—is the cause of America’s deficit problem, and argues that such policies are adopted only out of “political deference to the rich and powerful.”
Posted on Oct 23, 2012
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Oct 2, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — Watching Mitt Romney talk about the 47 percent of Americans he says are freeloaders, I thought of Paul Ryan’s mom, a Medicare recipient.
Posted on Sep 21, 2012
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By Robert Reich — Unemployment is still above 8 percent, job gains aren’t even keeping up with population growth, the economy is barely moving forward. And yet, according to most polls, the Romney-Ryan ticket is falling further and further behind.
Posted on Sep 17, 2012
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Aug 30, 2012
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Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s convention speech was good, according to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. Even if it was, you know, filled with factual errors and all.
Posted on Aug 29, 2012
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By Robert Reich — You want real entitlement reform? President Obama has begun it. Rational people would make sure he gets a second term.
Posted on Aug 21, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — There is a difference between Obama saying that Romney and Ryan want to alter Medicare fundamentally, which is true, and the GOP saying that Obama wants to undercut Medicare, which is not.
Posted on Aug 19, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Republicans and Democrats are being equally nasty in their campaign rhetoric, but they’re not being equally truthful.
Posted on Aug 17, 2012
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Daryl Cagle, Cagle Cartoons, MSNBC.com —
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Romney budget specifics and why the 2012 Congress could be one of the worst ever.
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
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Are you poor? Female? A student? A veteran? Planning on growing old? Zach Woods of “The Office”? Well, congratulations! If Mitt Romney is elected president, then you’re definitely going to get screwed by his running mate Paul Ryan! Click below to find out how.
Posted on Aug 13, 2012
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