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Roger Hickey's picture

GOP Threat: Cut Social Security and Medicare or we'll kill the economy. Americans say NO to both.

Here we go again. more »

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Joseph M. Firestone's picture

Let's Defend SS and Other Entitlements With the 2nd Bill Of Rights

The favorite defense of Social Security by progressives harkens back to Franklin Roosevelt who famously said:

”I guess you’re right on the economics. They are politics all the way through. more »

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Medicare: Battleground of the Bogus Deficit Debate

NUMBER 6 | October 31, 2012

Self-proclaimed “deficit hawks” want to cut Medicare benefits for the most vulnerable seniors (and tomorrow’s retirees). And many want to drastically change Medicare by giving seniors a fixed amount of money to buy insurance on the private market. Calling Medicare an out-of-control “entitlement” whose costs are rising dramatically and unsustainably, they claim we just can’t afford Medicare as we know it any more. They ignore the experience of history that demonstrates private insurance is more costly. They are really making the case for a giant step backward as a nation and as a civilized community. And it would avoid the real causes of our budget deficits.

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Richard Eskow's picture

"Town Hall" Debate: Will Voters Ask the Medicare and Social Security Questions Reporters Haven't?

If you support strong and effective government, then the unfamiliar glow you felt after last Thursday's debate was the satisfaction of seeing your opinions forcefully defended by a national candidate. There hasn't been much of that going on lately. But a deceptive question was asked in the Vice Presidential debate, while other important ones still haven't been asked of any national candidate. more »

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Leo Gerard's picture

Mitt Romney: Magic Man

"I’m gonna float like a butterfly and sting like a bee;
George can’t hit what his hands can’t see;
Now you see me, now you don’t;
He thinks he will, but I know he won’t." ~ Muhammad Ali

At last week’s presidential debate, Mitt Romney floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee.

He punched and parried, feigning the great Muhamm more »

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Roger Hickey's picture

Obama, Yes. And Win the House Too.

President Obama is enjoying a post-convention bump in job approval (Gallup says 7 percentage points – from 45 to 52 percent) after the negative and divisive Republican convention, followed by the energetic populism of the Democrats in Charlotte. more »

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Leo Gerard's picture

Insecurity Separates Middle Class from Romney, Ryan

The rich, those born sucking silver spoons like Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, really are different from the middle class. The wealthy grow up and live their lives wrapped in security. That’s what gives them the arrogance to organize a posse to hold down a fellow prep school student and chop off his hair, mock NASCAR fans’ clothes and ridicule cookies offered by supporters. more »

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Leo Gerard's picture

Romney, Ryan Don’t Get the Average Joe

GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney foolishly revived the dust up about his income tax secrecy last week. He claimed he paid at least 13 percent, an assertion easy enough for him to prove by releasing his tax documents.

But he’s refusing to do that. He called the concern about his tax rate “small minded.” Much more important issues overshadow it, he contended.

Maybe so. more »

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Richard Eskow's picture

The Phony "Generational War": It's Like the Hunger Games, But With Old People

Millions of people have read the Hunger Games stories, about a depraved future society where young people are forcing to fight each other for scarce resources while elites in the Capital plunder the nation's wealth. more »

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Richard Eskow's picture

Dammit, Chris Matthews! You Were Doing So Well 'Til You Said "Simpson Bowles"

At the June 18-20 Take Back the American Dream conference, we'll organize to stop Simpson-Bowles from passing Congress in the December "lame duck" session. Hear Robert L. Borosage, Van Jones and Melissa Harris-Perry on "Winning in November – So We Can Win in December and Beyond" and hear Rep. more »

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