Deep and arbitrary spending cuts, part of the austerity measures hatched by Congress two years ago and known as sequestration, are beginning to take a severe toll on vulnerable Americans dependent on crucial government programs. President Obama has described the sequester as a “self-inflicted wound” on the economy that could lead to another recession. Uneducated [...]
President Obama’s proposed budget is causing all sorts of political commotion for including as its centerpiece a focus on reducing deficits that is based largely on sweeping cuts to Social Security. Crafted as a compromise to lure Republican support, the president’s proposals has instead inflamed progressives for targeting Americans who rely on safety net programs [...]
Will a “grand bargain” to avert the ostensible calamity of going over the “fiscal cliff” forge a legislative accord on the backs of the most vulnerable Americans? Progressives are increasingly worried about President Obama’s use of Social Security as a bargaining chip with an increasingly rancorous Congress. Not much more than a month since Election Day, [...]
APPLAUSE! APPLAUSE! TO OBAMA FOR HELPING TO STRIP AWAY HABEAS CORPUS RIGHTS OF GITMO DETAINEES. (Brasscheck TV) Cenk Uygur offers this satirical “applause” for the President for the role of the U.S. government in generating a federal court ruling that essentially removed the right of detainees to demand trials as an earlier Supreme Court ruling [...]
IS OBAMA’S PROPOSED “MILLIONAIRES’ TAX” JUST A COVER FOR MASSIVE ENTITLEMENT CUTS? (New York Times) The proverbial jury may still be out, but the first hint at details of President Obama’s proposal for deficit reduction that will sent to the almighty “super committee” looks ominous. Getting most of the play from the White House and [...]
The fate of Social Security has become a sizzling focal point of the 2012 presidential campaign, with the field of Republicans seeking their party’s presidential nomination engaging in an unprecedented fight over whether the wildly popular government safety net for working Americans is a “Ponzi scheme” or should be protected. At the heart of the [...]
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