Long-term, we’re still in trouble due to a variety of factors, and neither our government nor our media seem to know how to actually look at the federal deficit.
It’s refreshing to see these lawmakers taking a firm stance in defending every day citizens, and Social Security.
Governor Rick Perry of Texas is privy to pay of $240,000 per year. That is your tax dollars going to the small government preacher, Governor Rick Perry.
The main stream media couldn’t care less that the U.S. Senate unanimously rejected cuts to Social Security via the ‘chained CPI.’ But WE should care for the following five reasons …
The majority of Americans disagree with Republicans on today’s hot-button issues, and all the gerrymandering and voter suppression in the world can’t change that.
‘We don’t care if you’re from Bristol or Beijing, blowing up the oldest mountains in America for a few tons of coal is a bad idea.’
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.
Okay, we already know the GOP doesn’t care about women, the young, minorities, or LGBT people. Now they’re telling the elderly they’re acting ‘entitled?’
The President has fallen into the Republican trap: a false narrative that the biggest crises facing America are our national debt and our budget deficits.
Yuval Levin’s Op Ed piece sounds reasonable, until you do the math and realize that he considers people earning $25,000 per year to be ‘wealthy.’
The findings may give the president political leverage to get some of his demands met by Congress, and puts pressure on Congressional Republicans to actually do something real about the sequester.
WE’RE ALL GOING TO GET OLD. At least, those of us lucky enough to not die young. So this issue should be a salient one for everyone; not just those who are already there.
This unexpected slowing of the growth of healthcare costs is not going to address the entire deficit either.
The father of the modern conservative movement looks downright sane and reasonable compared with today’s right-wing nut jobs.
Should the GOP attempt to use the debt-ceiling as a bargaining chip, remind them that Ronald Reagan increased the debt-ceiling 17 times.
While mere mention of his name will likely bring rebuke, his policies would fit very neatly into today’s Democratic Party.
The theory is that Medicare is a socialist plot to control everyone. The reality is that it keeps the elderly from destitution.
As the New Year approached and 2012 came to a close, so did the negotiations for a fiscal cliff deal … or so we thought.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham would throw the country into an economic calamity that is expected to make 2008’s Great Recession look like a New Year’s Eve party if Republicans don’t get their way.
