“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 LBJ, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'tax increases'
A Presidential Commission–To Cut Your Benefits
June 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, taxes, wars and militarism
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
Who Is Going to Pay the National Debt?
February 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Politics
There was a wonderful line once in an old movie. A very savvy and skilled old billiards player, a hustler, was about to take the money from a slick and smart-alecky young man who had just ridden into town. And as the hustler chalked his cue stick, and leaned over the table to take [...]
Tags: Deficit reduction·Neocon programs for deficit reduction·Pete Peterson·Social Security and Medicare·tax cuts·tax increases
David Brooks and Neocon Advice to the Elderly
February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Economics, General, Politics
“There you go again…” as a famous “B” movie actor once memorably said…memorable because he happened to be President at the time. Oh yes, we really did have an actor as President. But he was also a union president at one time. Granted, it was a union of actors, but he was elected.
One [...]
Tags: AARP·elderly income·Health Care·income inequality·Medicare·national debt·Neoconservative budget planning·retirement·Right Wing·Social Security cuts·tax cuts·tax hikes·tax increases