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Facts Stubbornly Maintain Liberal Bent

May 27, 2011

Washington D.C.'s "Beltway Media" has been obsessed with national deficits and debt ever since the black Democratic President Obama took office. Before Obama took office, while the previous administration was doubling the national debt and exploding the deficit, very little was said about debt and deficits. No one noticed, I guess. The moment the new [...]

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Financing Geezers "Extra Cable Channels"

May 16, 2011

Those in our main media who do nothing but service America's wealthiest citizens don't even try to hide it anymore. It's unseemly. Think about it. Those who service others for money, say, like, escorts….usually do their servicing in private. But it seems when it comes to media servicers like Washington Post columnist, Robert Samuelson, there's [...]

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Taking Off The Masks

March 30, 2011

We see it in Wisconsin where a neo-confederate Tea Party Republican Governor, beholden to billionaires and drunk on radical supply side ideology, has brazenly attacked the right of people who work for a living from collectively bargaining. We see it in Ohio where a midget of a man, Republican John Kasich, former snake oil salesman [...]

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Taking Hostages 2, "Ultimate Leverage"

March 15, 2011

In Taking Hostages, Part One, which aired on most teevee news programs last December to rave reviews by Village Elders, Republicans put the gun of tax increases to the foreheads of 95% of American families and threatened to pull the trigger if the top 5% had to pay one more penny than they have been [...]

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Losing The Future

March 8, 2011

Imagine every K-12 school throughout America as a Wal-Mart School. Privatized, for profit education for all of America's children. Big box store education. With profits as the core reason for educating….how long would it be before parents were taking out state and federal loans, from for-profit banks naturally, to finance their child's high school education? [...]

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Social Security Off The Table?

February 15, 2011

Digby blogged yesterday about President Obama's six principles for reforming Social Security which were included in the president's budget proposal. • Any reform should strengthen Social Security for future generations and restore long-term solvency.• The Administration will oppose any measures that privatize or weaken the Social Security system.• While all measures to strengthen solvency should [...]

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Praising Unfairness

December 30, 2010

On Monday, right on schedule, the Beacon reprinted Robert Samuelson's Washington Post piece on why it is that the baby boomers need to be treated unfairly moving forward….. …neither political party seems interested in reducing benefits for baby boomers. Doing so, it's argued, would be "unfair" to people who had planned retirements based on existing [...]

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Simpson: Can't Wait For The "Bloodbath"

November 20, 2010

No, not O.J…..Alan. The Catfood Commission has been a farce from the very beginning. Officially put together under a President Obama order because Congress couldn't agree on forming a Commission, the so-called Deficit Commission is jam-packed with deficit hawks and supply siders. Alan Simpson, ex GOP senator from Wyoming, is one of the co-chairs. Simpson [...]

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Commission: Rich Need More Tax Cuts

November 11, 2010

I warned in August that Obama's deficit commission would come back with a proposal to raise the retirement age for Social Security. What's coming after the midterms is a proposal from the packed-with-deficit-hawks Commission which will recommend a reduction in SS benefits, most likely with some consumer price indexing smoke and mirrors, and, my favorite, [...]

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The Coming Hostage Situation

November 10, 2010

The timetable….. If the debt ceiling is not raised before the federal government uses up its current borrowing authority, then sometime in February the U.S. government will no longer be able to issue more debt — at which point all hell will break loose. The stakes…. If the government can't issue new debt, first it [...]

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