If the United States ends up falling off the “fiscal cliff” Republicans in Congress will carry most of the blame according to a new poll released by the Pew Research Center yesterday. “As the president and congressional leaders begin negotiations to avoid the “fiscal cliff” deadline at the end of the year, there is widespread […]
Ten year ago, Republicans made a mistake. They gave tax cuts to millionaires. They decided our country needed less money and millionaires needed more. Now our country doesn’t have the money we need to build an economy that will work for all of us. We need better roads to transport our products; faster internet for […]
Progressives are hoping that if Republicans won’t listen to President Obama on the Buffett Rule, then maybe they’ll listen to President Reagan. The Center for American Progress unearthed video of Reagan making the case in 1985 for closing tax loopholes on the rich in strikingly similar terms to Obama, even leading an audience to cheers […]
Democratic Senate candidate, Elizabeth Warren, sat down with Today’s Savannah Guthrie and discussed Ronald Reagan’s famous campaign question regarding whether Americans were better off in the present than they were four years ago and how that same question is answered today. When asked about Mitt Romney, Warren replied: “The way I look at this is […]
Thanks to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Ezra Klein of the Washington Post, MSNBC, Bloom and Wonkblog, we now have a great chart explaining Pres. G.W. Bush and Pres. Obama and their role in the creation of America’s budget deficit. When Obama first took office he inherited a $10.5 trillion dollar debt […]