Beyond the disaster itself, it’s tragic that even more programs for the elderly, disabled and children will be attacked in the selfish demands for offsets.
No Oklahoma Tornado Relief Without Cuts Elsewhere Says Republican
by T. Steelman •
Tag Archive for austerity
Wealthy Purposefully Forcing High Unemployment To Maximize Their Profits
by Egberto Willies •
The bottom line is simple. Austerity has been an immoral failure for the middle class and the poor.
Refusing To Admit Failure, Austerity Economists Continue To Defend Discredited Study
by Nathaniel Downes •
Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff are the equivalent of economic superstars to the right-wing, and as it turns out, are economic con-men, using bad math and cherry picked data to create the results desired.
You’re Not Going To Believe What Reagan Had To Say About Social Security (VIDEO)
by Justin Acuff •
Arkansas GOP Gives MORE Tax Cuts To The Rich, Rejects Cuts For The Poor
by T. Steelman •
The GOP is the party of the 1%. They’re not even bothering to pretend they care about the rest of us anymore.
Boehner Admits There Is No Immediate Debt Crisis But Wants Cuts Anyway
by T. Steelman •
John Boehner sat down to rattle off the latest Republican talking points, saying he’s against raising their taxes by even a few percentage points and would rather make cuts to social programs.
Jobless Claims Continue To Fall Despite GOP’s Continued Attempts At Austerity
by Rika Christensen •
Considering our recent growth in the jobs market, despite a tax increase and uncertainty about the sequester, it’ll be interesting to see what happens in March and April.
Newt Gingrich Offers To Fund Canceled White House Tours With Donald Trump’s Billions
by Rika Christensen •
The Donald’s amenable, but are White House Tours essential to the Secret Service’s mission? And can the President accept private donations to cover programs cut by the sequester?
Paul Krugman: The Big Bad Deficit Is Gone
by Justin "Filthy Liberal Scum" Rosario •
Who are you going to believe? The Nobel Prize winning economist who’s been right about everything for years on end or the people that crashed the economy and made billions off our suffering?
Will Republicans Help Avert The Sequester? Obama Says ‘There’s Nothing That I Can Do’
by Rika Christensen •
It’s hard to believe that the GOP is willing to make devastating cuts that would hurt constituents in their home states just to make a point.
Joe Scarborough Jumps The Shark, Claims Paul Krugman Is As Extreme As NRA’s LaPierre
by Justin "Filthy Liberal Scum" Rosario •
LaPierre thinks Kindergarten teachers should be armed at all times. Krugman says the debt can be dealt with after we get the economy repaired. Yes, it’s clear they’re BOTH lunatics …
Addicting Info’s Weekly News Roundup — Week Of February 3rd-9th
by Elisabeth Parker •
This week’s ‘Addicting Info’ news in review, divvied up into your favorite categories, including Those Danged Republicans, Guns, Gays, and The Jabbering Classes.
European Austerity Is A Proven Disaster – But U.S. Republicans Want To Enact It Anyway
by Egberto Willies •
After already forcing trillions in cuts, causing layoffs, and strangling our economic growth, Republicans in Congress want to force European-style austerity on America — inviting another recession.
Unemployment Numbers Relatively Unchanged And Why That Is A Good Thing
by Nathaniel Downes •
The unemployment numbers for last month are relatively unchanged from December, which is a very good sign for the year to come.
Job Report Proves GOP’s Austerity Has Held Back Economic Recovery
by Egberto Willies •
Private employers added 157K jobs, State and Feds cut 9K, and our GDP shrank by 1%. When will we learn?
It’s The Republicans, Stupid! Why The Economy Shrank 0.1% In Q4
by Elisabeth Parker •
Defense cuts have slowed down our otherwise-growing economy, which proves that the GOP-led spending cuts won’t help us.
GOP: The Tax Debate Is Over, Debt Ceiling Is Next (But Is It Really?)
by Rika Christensen •
An honest effort to negotiate lowering the deficit would not and should not include holding the debt ceiling hostage again.
Lindsey Graham Says He’ll Violate Norquist’s ‘No Taxes’ Pledge (VIDEO)
by Justin Acuff •
It’s probably too much to hope for, but the signs are there — there is a chance that we’ll see Norquist become politically irrelevant in time.
