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'Virtual Summit On Fiscal Responsibility' Launched: Add Your Voice

April 20, 2010

Next week, fiscal conservatives in both parties will be dominating the airwaves even more than they have been with their calls for a style of "fiscal discipline" that is designed to impose pain on those who are least capable of bearing it—the elderly, the poor, the disabled, and others who are struggling economically.

Progressives have been marginalized in that debate, and that must end. more »

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Top 5 Things Deficit Hawks Don't Want You To Know About Social Security

By Kim Wright

April 20th, 2010

Kim Wright is the assistant director of communications for the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.

We’re focusing our attention on some basic truths about Social Security. Most of these truths have been lost, ignored, or even lied about in an orchestrated campaign to persuade Americans that we must cut Social Security if we’re “serious” about returning fiscal sanity to Washington. more »

"Deficit Reduction Blindness" Syndrome Plaguing New York Times

By Bill Scher

April 19, 2010

There's a strange affliction impairing several New York Times reporters, Deficit Reduction Blindness. The syndrome blocks your ability to see a government reduce a budget deficit without also seeing massive pain inflicted upon its people. more »

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What Americans Get in Return For Their Taxes

By Steven Hill

From news.newamericamedia.org

April 15th, 2010

news.newamericamedia.org — In return for their taxes, European receive a generous support system for families and individuals for which Americans must pay exorbitantly, out-of-pocket, if we are to receive it at all. That includes quality health care for every single person, the average cost of which is about half of what Americans pay, even as various studies show that Europeans achieve healthier results. But that's not all. In return for their taxes, Europeans also are receiving affordable child care, a decent retirement pension, free or inexpensive university education, job retraining, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, ample vacations, affordable housing, senior care, efficient mass transportation and more. In order to receive the same level of benefits as Europeans, most Americans fork out a ton of money in out-of-pocket payments, in addition to our taxes.

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In Praise of the I.R.S.

By E.J. Dionne

From washingtonpost.com

April 15th, 2010

washingtonpost.com — Who are the men and women of the IRS? They are the people who collect the revenue that allows the government to finance our troops who are in harm's way, help our wounded warriors, pay Grandma's Medicare bills, cover the costs of keeping our food and drugs safe, and do so many of the other things the vast majority of us want our government to accomplish. Yes, if you support our troops, you have to support the work of the Internal Revenue Service.

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With More Deficit Hysteria Propaganda, CNN Becomes "Most Busted Name In News"

By Bill Scher

April 12, 2010

Despite our demand for CNN to at least provide equal time to defenders of Social Security, Medicare and public investment when discussing issues related to debt and the deficit, the sputtering network proceeded this weekend with its planned four hours of more »

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Hey CNN. There's This Guy, Krugman. Has Another View About The Deficit. Weird!

By Bill Scher

April 9, 2010

Unless we successfully pressure CNN to change course, tomorrow it will air Pete Peterson's anti-Social Security, anti-Medicare anti-public investment deficit propaganda film "I.O.U.S.A" along with additional propaganda "commentary" from people who work for the Peterson Foundation. more »

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Robert Kuttner: The Battle to Save Social Security

By Alex Lawson

April 7, 2010

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News Flash: Americans Remain Overwhelmingly Opposed to Social Security Cuts

By Nathan Tabak

April 6, 2010

When opponents of Social Security speak out in favor of eviscerating the program, they rarely do so with the candor of Colorado Republican Rick O’Donnell. Don’t remember him? more »

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