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OK Suppose They GET Their 'Grand Bargain' by Dave Johnson, OurFuture.org | May 16, 2012
When Liberals Attack ... Social Security: Drum v. Lieberman by Richard (RJ) Eskow, OurFuture.org | May 2, 2012
Medicare and Social Security: Fact vs. Myth by Richard (RJ) Eskow, OurFuture.org | April 24, 2012
Centrist Theology Watch: Will the "Clinton Dems" Fail America and Ignore the Real Medicare Crisis? by Richard (RJ) Eskow, OurFuture.org | April 23, 2012
The "Bill Clinton Democrats": Serving the Elites, Ignoring the Medicare Crisis, and Forgetting Their Roots by Richard (RJ) Eskow, OurFuture.org | April 23, 2012
Social Security and Medicare: Behind the Numbers and the Spin by Richard (RJ) Eskow, OurFuture.org | April 23, 2012
Should We "Means Test" Your Auto Insurance? Then Why Do It For Social Security? by Richard (RJ) Eskow, OurFuture.org | April 19, 2012
Simpson-Bowles Zombie Returns by Dave Johnson, OurFuture.org | April 18, 2012
We Can’t Afford Medicare and Social Security but we Can Afford Tax Cuts for Millionaires? by NCPSSM, ncpssm.org | April 17, 2012
How "Centrist" Democrats Are Helping Conservatives - and Failing America's Moms by Richard (RJ) Eskow, OurFuture.org | April 16, 2012
Economists Warn Against Budget-Cutting That Will Undermine Job Growth
More than 300 economists, policy experts and civic leaders have signed a statement warning political leaders of “a grave danger” that the still-fragile economic recovery will be undercut by austerity economics of the kind being pushed by conservative politicians and by the White House deficit commission. Read the statement and related commentary on the critical choices we must make to revive the economy.
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The GOP Payroll Tax Plan Does So Stink
December 1st, 2011
No doubt Republicans know the fight over extending the payroll tax is one they could lose. Thus, they've pivoted away from opposing the extension, and have presented a plan of their own — one that Timothy Noah says the Democrats should be willing to work with because it "doesn't stink."
Well, in my experience, just because you can't smell something doesn't mean it doesn't sink. Some things "pass the smell test" because of a faulty sniffer; not because they don't stink. And the GOP's payroll tax plan does so stink.
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Before He Cuts Social Security, I Hope the President Listens To This "Obama" Guy
January 14th, 2011
In an open letter to the President this week, Sen. Bernie Sanders mentioned "worriesome reports" that the President is planning to cut Social Security. These reports don't come out of the blue. They're the culmination of a months-long campaign. The White House has been privately signalling for months that it was leaning in that direction, and now the sky over Washington is darkening with trial balloons floating up from Pennsylvania Avenue.
Before you make such a disastrous and unwarranted move, Mr. President, there's someone I think you should meet. Actually, you may have run into him before: He's a skinny guy with an keen analytical mind and a gift for brilliant oratory. Sound familiar? He ran for President last time around, and he had some very sensible things to say about Social Security: more » The Conservative Plan for Social Security Is “An Absolute Disgrace”
Sen. John McCain's comment last week that it's an "absolute disgrace" that current workers pay for the Social Security benefits of current retirees was bad enough, but the conservative policy alternative, and the fear-mongering that comes with it, is even worse. Here's how to attack it.
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