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Lux: Be Thankful for Social Security, Medicare....and its Unconvincing Opponents

Source: Democratic Strategist, Nov 21 2012, 1:22pm CST

When imagining a future where Social Security and Medicare were not fixed, everyone of our participants imagined a bleak existence, not just for the country, but for themselves personally. They described that ...

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1 day ago

Why Non-Defense Discretionary Spending Keeps Getting Cut

Source: OMB Watch  |   May 23 2013, 3:38pm CDT

The biggest difference among the three budget plans that official Washington is currently considering is spending for non-defense discretionary programs, which includes education, infrastructure, food safety, environmental protection and other essen ...

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3 days ago

New report: More seniors living in poverty, and they want to cut Social Security?

Source: Daily Kos  |   May 22 2013, 9:50am CDT

"There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning." —Warren Buffett ... along with a comment: Take "Chained C.P.I." off the table -- NOW! Millions of us – the majorit ...

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26 weeks ago


Quote:
"Grandpa and I live in a nursing home. [We] lost our house...and are getting abused."


Source: Democratic Strategist

 

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3 days ago

Another reason for NOT cutting Social Security benefits--seniors poorer than you think

Source: A Taxing Matter  |   May 22 2013, 4:57am CDT

As everybody knows, a constant refrain of the far-right GOP establishment is a desire to cut taxes for the wealthy while cutting benefits for the poor. The ideological right talks about benefits for the poor as "welfare" but never talks about t ...

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3 days ago

Bad Faith and Budget Politics

Source: The American Prospect  |   May 21 2013, 5:00pm CDT

Compromise is often an unhappily revealing art. “Ideals may tell us something important about what we would like to be. But compromises tell us who we are,” the philosopher Avishai Margalit writes. In finding compromises w ...

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5 days ago

Who Does Wall Street Own In Congress?

Source: Down With Tyranny!  |   May 19 2013, 11:00pm CDT

The House doesn't usually stay in sessions Fridays, let alone take serious votes, but this past Friday, as we mentioned yesterday, Boehner and Cantor kept the Members in town to repay a promise they had made to their Wall Street masters to further ...

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