I appeared on the Stephanie Miller Show yesterday with guest host John Fugelsang to discuss Social Security and the Deficit Commission. He’d seen my piece on the fact that the Commission members who want to cut retirement benefits all have excellent retirement plans themselves, thanks to Uncle Sam (that is, us). The exchange at [...]
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Pretty much any time the President proposes anything, conservatives cry “Uncertainty!” — that somehow the mere act of proposing reform causes businesses to be become paralyzed by uncertainty at what will happen next. Of course, the only way to end any uncertainty is to finish the legislative process and put reforms into place — note [...]
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The rest of the world is realizing that extracting and burning fossil fuels as their main energy source is not a good, safe, sustainable and cost-effective approach, and is starting a transition to alternatives. This transition presents the biggest economic opportunity since possibly the industrial revolution itself, because in many ways it means rebuilding the [...]
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Did you hear the big news? Yesterday on his show, Rush Limbaugh vowed that he would leave the country if health care reform passes! LIMBAUGH: I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I am leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa [...]
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The White House has agreed to meet with 350.org climate activist Bill McKibben about his quest to get the White House to bring back the solar panels that President Jimmy Carter installed and President Ronald Reagan ripped off. That’s nice and all. But I think McKibben is putting too much emphasis on the “symbolic” value. [...]
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I know the conservatives want to cut “entitlements” but literally killing off old people seems extreme even for them. But they seem to think that the elderly are being profligate spenders on health care and so they need to “take responsibility” and pay more so they won’t use as much. Anyone who’s been around old [...]
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Long-suffering victim is hardly the American image. Paul Revere, Mother Jones, John Glenn, Martin Luther King Jr. — those are American icons. Bold, wry, justice-seeking. So how is it that America finds herself in the position of schoolyard patsy, woe-is-me casualty of China’s illegal trade practices that are destroying U.S. renewable energy manufacturing and foreclosing [...]
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Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. Presidential Presser Caps Week Of Jobs Push President holds morning press conference on the economy. AFP: “Obama scheduled the appearance at 11:00 [...]
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