"Words that make actions speak louder."
Conservative just hate Social Security. The Social Security program is an example of government at its best. It demonstrates We, the People taking care of and watching out for each other. It works, it is efficient and effective, and people love it. For their war against government to work conservatives have to find a way […]
If there is one thing that Tea Party members hate, it’s government health care. I guess that’s why so many of them want the government to keep away from their Medicare. (You may have seen ad after ad last month blasting Democrats because Obamacare “cut Medicare.” See some of the ads below.) ANYway, now some […]
China claims it originated or bought technology for their high-speed rail projects, and didn’t steal it. This is a Google translation — Refuting the State Intellectual Property Office of China’s high-speed rail: China news agency, Chengdu, November 22 (Xu Yangyi) – Intellectual Property Office of China on the 22nd Tian said that China’s high-speed rail […]
Does it even matter what the public wants anymore? I guess that’s a rhetorical question these days because more and more obviously the answer is no. It matters what the plutocrats want, and they know how to get what they want. Public opinion is “engineered” or at least “managed.” When it can’t be managed it […]
Today’s Washington Post has punch two of a one-two punch. Punch one was the Simpson/Bowles “plan” to cut Social Security, cut middle-class tax breaks and programs (and dramatically cut taxes on the rich.) Punch two is pushing this plan hard with headlines claiming this solution is actually popular, while shutting out voices who explain why […]
Watch Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, the co-chairs of the White House deficit commission, on Morning Joe, conflating Social Security and the budget deficit. They have released their own “plan,” separate from what the deficit commission might release, allow the press to refer to it as the commission’s plan, and say they are sticking with […]
Washington is inundated with deficit commissions. The country has piled up a huge debt because we cut taxes for the wealthy and borrowed to make up the difference. But everyone says we can’t fix the problem by raising taxes on the rich in a recession because taxes “take money out of the economy.” Is there […]
The Washington Post criticizes President Obama because he is holding out for a better Korean Free Trade Agreement deal for American workers and businesses. They call that a “setback.” But a setback for who, exactly? In a Thursday editorial, Mr. Obama’s Korea trade deal setback, the Post’s editors write, FOR THOSE WHO believe, as we […]
The Healthcare is Too Damn High from CEPR Oh My goodness. The deficits are out of control. We have to do something! What is wrong with the deficits? Well, we have to cut them. Why? Because if we don’t do something, something really bad will happen Like what? The country will go broke. What does […]
“Free trade” by any other name … is still just a scam to pit workers against each other and evade the protections of democracy. We, the People fought to build this democracy with its laws and institutions and protections. This fight brought us a middle class with weekends off, good wages, worker protections and some […]