MORNING MESSAGE: Fix the Debt’s New Ploy Is Too Obscene For Laughter OurFuture.org’s Richard Eskow: “Fix the Debt, a front group for corporations, billionaires, and defense contractors, wants people to call their representatives and demand that they avoid the “fiscal cliff.” The group’s latest email is so badly written that it cries out for laughter. [...]
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Fix the Debt, a front group for corporations, billionaires, and defense contractors, wants people to call their Representatives and demand that they avoid the “fiscal cliff.” The group’s latest email is so badly written that it cries out for laughter, but its potential consequences call out for tears. The writing borders on the unintelligible, as [...]
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Given my stellar record for 2012, I should probably retire now while I’m at the top of my game. Not taking my own advice, here are my fearless budget forecasts for 2013.
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If the President decides to give into Republican demands to cut this kind of deal, thinking that launching a civil war with people like me who were part of his winning coalition in the election is better for the country and worth the trade-off, he will do what feels like he should.
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US manufacturing wages are competitive, but wages are not the only reason companies might not be coming back. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report this week, International Comparisons of Hourly Compensation Costs in Manufacturing, 2011, that debunks the myth that manufacturing worker wages are not competitive with those of other major manufacturing countries. [...]
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Yesterday, I posted that progressive leaders in Congress are saying “No Deal” to “fiscal cliff’ deals that cut Social Security benefits while cutting the wealthy yet another break on taxes. Today, that list is growing, as more progressive join what’s beginning to look like a political intervention focused on reversing Obama’s particular form of presidential [...]
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On the menu this morning:
MORNING MESSAGE: What About The Jobs and Wages Cliff?
The First Social Security Cut Is The Deepest
"Plan BS"
Sticking To Our Gun Control
Breakfast Sides
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The President’s latest budget offer slashes a 95 year old retiree’s Social Security benefits by more than nine percent — and trims the defense budget by less than one percent. Nancy Pelosi insists that these benefit reductions aren’t “cuts,” which is consistent with the propensity to describe the slowed growth or freezing of military spending [...]
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One of the most maddening features of the current fiscal cliff/fiscal swindle debate is that the chattering class rarely acknowledges the people who have already fallen off the cliff: 5 million Americans who have been unemployed for more than 27 weeks. The roughly 7 million people who aren’t even counted as unemployed because even though [...]
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Progressives in Congress aren’t falling for the trick that Washington is using to cut Social Security in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. Instead they are raising their voices against the insanity of Democrats committing political suicide by: destroying their credibility, reneging on their promise to keep Social Security “off the table” during “fiscal cliff” negotiations, and [...]
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