House Speaker John Boehner has spent more than a month without doing any legislative work to create jobs. Now, he’s telling middle class workers who might lose their job upon passage of the House Republican budget, “So be it!” That GOP budget
On February 18, 2010, President Obama, by executive order, established the “National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. That commission was charged with identifying policies to improve our nation’s fiscal situation in the medium term, and to achieve fiscal sustainability over the
We need to energize our base to get out and vote in November and vote against Republicans running for the US House and US Senate. Analysis indicates we stand to lose yet another 1.1 million jobs if they get the opportunity to
If you haven’t dropped by FactCheck.org lately, you should. They’ve now had time to fact-check the GOP’s Pledge to America announced by the GOP on September 23rd. Their analysis revealed that the GOP is using some very dubious information (I’ll not call
From the GOP’s new “A Pledge to America” out this morning: “End Government Control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac— Since taking over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage companies that triggered the financial meltdown by giving too many high risk
I came across a wonderful article today on “Inspire Political Discourse.” It summarizes the fiscal activities of presidents beginning with Roosevelt/Truman and concludes with Obama. “It’s well worth noting that President Reagan (the President whom the GOP worships for his economic prowess)
Want to learn more about how economics in our nation has changed in the last thirty years? Meander over to Slate and take a walk through 10 slides on ‘The Great Divergence in Pictures.” Slide 10 is the best one as it
