Real Reasons for the Deficit

Just As We Suspected Dept: The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has updated a widely cited chart to show that Bush-era tax cuts to the rich and two ill-advised wars - not the economic downturn - are...

United States Congress sanctions Americans

Disaster Striking NowWith the debt ceiling maxed out and uncontrolled spending rampant since George W. Bush initiated a flood in spending backed by a Democratic Congress, the US Congress acting irresponsibly is...

Republicans won’t tax wealthy constituents

Republicans won’t tax wealthy constituents In an election year, you won’t hear Republicans calling for a Bush Tax Repeal rollback. You won’t see them addressing the revenue side of the equation until there...

US Red ink to ruin: how it happened

How did this happen? It began in 2001. The $2 trillion nest egg was squandered. The big culprit, two rounds of recession and Bush tax cuts. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan exasperated a bad situation. Obama’s TARP...

The Solution - Split the USA in half

This is a teaser for an article I wrote on examiner.com. "For of you who are not aware, the United States of America is hurtling toward collapse. Standard and Poors recently reported that it was giving the USA a ...

Nation on brink with unqualified Tea Party representatives

No experience necessary? In a democracy, getting average representation from elected officials is par for the course. Trouble is, America is not well served by “average,” and even less by “unqualified”...

Obama will get serious about debt after 2012 elections

Obama’s political chips have value to him until after 2012. Then, they don’t matter anymore. He will be off to becoming a corporate millionaire and his wife will tend to philanthropy. Obama tends to politically...

Bush v. Gore's Dark American Decade

By Robert Parry December 12, 2010 Ten years ago, the United States stood at a crossroads though the dimness of the future made it hard for many to see which path led toward a brighter day and which headed toward disaster. ...

Meltdown

  America is on an unsustainable trajectory, and emergency action is needed at once to reverse course, if it is still possible. I have written about this circumstance for over a year, including publishing...

Obama policies: Stay the course

There are many voters who are dissatisfied with the economic situation. What many don't understand is that Obama was bequeathed by the previous administration a vast economic crisis - a crisis far worse than what Jimmy Carter had bequeathed Ronald Reagan. Reagan's economic...

China benefits from stimulus because Republicans set them up

“The commercial charges that the stimulus "created renewable energy jobs in China" and "created mountains of new debt back here.” That’s interesting because just last week I reported that an American company...

Republican Lies: How do they get away with it?

As I continue in my political research to view the standpoints and platforms of Republican candidates, I feel like shouting at them. That I of course cannot do; but I can write what I think about their statements here. This is a set of responses to many of the most common...

UK Government heading to financial oblivion?

The Government is up to it's eyes in debt. More debt than any of us can truthfully claim to understand. Remember that old myth about the tribe that had only had 4 numbers - one, two, three and 'many'? Well it's hard not to feel that way when ministers appear at the despatch...

How the Republican Party Destroyed the American Economy

http://grayson-green.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-republican-party-of-jeff-flake.html " IF there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would...

Tea Party's Math and Clinton Policies

This is my full response to the people in the Tea Party movement who are agitating for more tax cuts or claim that tax cuts have always resulted in prosperity. When Clinton raised taxes on higher incomes in a serious effort to tackle the deficit, that increased investor...

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