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Open Thread: Watch And React To The President's Health Care Summit

By Isaiah J. Poole
February 25, 2010

President Obama's health care summit is being broadcast here live, courtesy of the White House. Use the "Discuss" link below to add your comments, or comment on Twitter using the #ourfuture hashtag and watch the Twitter discussion on the feed to the right of this page. Bill Scher's Twitter coverage is below.

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On Government Spending, Deficits, Etc.

By Dave Johnson
March 20, 2010

There is much worry throughout the land about government spending, borrowing, deficits, debt and similar concerns.

Conservatives are loudly declaring that the dollar is in danger, that the country is going bankrupt, etc. and are demanding that spending be cut back.

In the category of "All That Needs To Be Said About That" I submit for your consideration the following from today's news: more »

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Sharks

By Mitchell Hirsch
March 20, 2010

The following was originally published at Working America's "Main Street" blog more »

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Tackling The Right-Wing Health Care Spin: The Bill Dwight Show Podcast

By Bill Scher
March 20, 2010

Yesterday on The Bill Dwight Show, airing on WHMP-AM in Western MA I faced off with local GOP operative Isaac Mass about the pending health care. And I was able to put some persistent right-wing myths to rest about "government takeover," the "Cornhusker Kickback" and the supposed "$1 trillion price tag." more »

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The Senate Energy Bill's Other Shoe

By Natasha Chart
March 19, 2010

So yesterday I looked on the bright side of the Senate's clean energy bill and proclaimed my delight that there is such a thing. Though naturally, this is not the whole story. more »

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The Growing Movement for Publicly Owned Banks

By Ellen Brown
March 19, 2010

“Hundreds of job-creating projects are still on hold because Michigan businesses and entrepreneurs cannot get bank financing. We can break the credit crunch and beat Wall Street at their own game by keeping our money right here in Michigan and investing it to retool our economy and create jobs.” more »

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NUMMI Closing - Resignation

By Dave Johnson
March 19, 2010

The other day I wrote about the huge impact from California's Toyota NUMMI plant closing,

Toyota takes off with a ton of cash, we pay the costs, it's the way the system is set up -- by us. more »

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China to US: We're Just "Emotionally Unavailable"

By Mike Elk
March 19, 2010

Man China has had a really rough week. A bipartisan group of economists ranging from Paul Krugman to the conservative Fred Bergsten of the Peterson Institute have called for tariffs on China to fix the currency manipulation problem. more »

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Why Is The Wall Street Journal So Chummy With China?

By Steven Capozzola
March 19, 2010

The Wall Street Journal says the U.S. is “wrong” to protest China’s “fixed yuan-dollar rate.” Their explanation is that many countries adopt a fixed rate, so as to ensure market stability. China is no different… more »

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Take A Hot Tub Time Machine Trip To 2009, When Conservatives Loved The CBO

By Bill Scher
March 19, 2010

The conservative response to the Congressional Budget Office analysis that health care reform will cut the deficit more than $1 trillion over the next two decades is simply to call the nonpartisan analysts liars. more » more »

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