They will always try to get you with words and slogans. Words and slogans are fun but they aren’t facts. The rich are funding much of the media and a whole host of hidden propaganda machines. And they are creating buzz words to influence your thinking. Two of the key words to watch out for [...]
Entries Tagged as 'cutting Medicare'
Politics: Save Yourself First – Part II
September 17th, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes
Tags: austerity·budget deficits·cutting Medicare·cutting social services·Neoconservative politics·Social Security·taxes
A Presidential Commission–To Cut Your Benefits
June 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street, wars and militarism
“Houston, we have a problem….” “We’re out of money.” Our fiscal problems have at last reached emergency status. The Republicans, yes, the Republicans–in a purely partisan way–over the last 30 years finally put us so deeply in debt that we must now address the situation before it it too late. The President, no FDR or [...]
Tags: budget deficits·budgets and spending·cutting back on Social Security·cutting government spending·cutting Medicare·cutting the military budget·government austerity programs·national debt·national debt crisis·tax increases
Budget Crisis Commission: Coming for Your Social Security and Medicare
February 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Economics, Politics
In Washington today, a whole hall full of white-shirts and rimless glasses sat at attention while the gurus of fiscal policy told us that we need to cut our biggest areas of expenditure—Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid—in order to save us from disaster that they make sound worse than the Spanish Inquisition. The Peterson-Pew Budget [...]
Tags: budget commimssion·cuts in Social Security·cutting Medicare·national debt·Peterson-Pew Budget Commission