White House Burning, Part III: Choosing Our Future
(By NCrissie B) This week I am exploring Simon Johnson and James Kwak’s White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters To You. First we considered the history of our...
View ArticleEnough Preemptive Freakouts
(By NCrissie B) The Preemptive Freakout du Jour is, of course, whether President Obama is about to “cave” in tax and budget negotiations with House Republicans. Last weekend, senior White House advisor...
View ArticleWP Comments on Social Security, Susan Rice, Military Budgets, and End-of-Life...
Here are some of Winning Progressive’s recent comments at the New York Times on Social Security and the payroll tax, the GOP’s misguided witch hunt against Susan Rice, public support for cuts in...
View ArticleSolving the Debt Problems
(By Mark Bridger, cross-posted at ThatMansScope) For the past 40 years or so there has been a de facto class warfare in this country. While workers’ productivity has soared, worker compensation has...
View ArticleThe Republican’s Debt and Deficit Blackmail
(By The Pragmatic Pundit) Republicans have been using debt and deficit blackmail as a bargaining strategy since the days of Ronald Reagan.Reagan’s brand of politics was successful at promoting the...
View ArticleCut these Entitlements Instead of Medicare and Social Security
(By The Pragmatic Pundit) I’m so sick of the attacks on Medicare and Social Security. First of all, they are not entitlements, they are earned benefits…we pay for them! Secondly, there have been...
View ArticleSqueezed, Part III: Building Better Government
(By NCrissie B) This week’s series explored the causes and consequences as working Americans are increasingly squeezed by stagnant wages and rising costs of living. First, we saw how workers have...
View ArticleWe the People, Part III: Why Are “We?”
This week’s series explores three different views of the U.S. Constitution, through the lens of the Preamble’s first three words: “We the People.” First we considered libertarian views and the question...
View ArticleWeekend Reading List
For this weekend’s reading list, we have articles on the sequester undermining the food stamps program, private prison companies lobbying for immigration reform policies that will create more...
View ArticleOn Boehner’s Debt Ceiling Threat: No More Ransom Payments
(By NCrissie B) Yesterday House Speaker John Boehner announced that Republicans intend to hold the debt ceiling hostage again this summer: Speaking at his regular news conference, Boehner said the only...
View ArticleProgressive Reading List
For this weekend’s reading list we have articles about Chained-CPI and Social Security, the growing movement for paid-sick leave, efforts to reform the US’s wasteful rules regarding international food...
View ArticleWP Comments on the Failure of Austerity, Marriage Equality, Syria, and More
In our latest installment of comments made at the New York Times, we have Winning Progressive’s comments regarding failed austerity in Europe, conservative calls for others to suffer economically, how...
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