The Chained CPI, deceptively portrayed as a reasonable cost of living adjustment, is a cut to Social Security that would hurt seniors. Watch Robert Reich explain why Chained CPI is so stingy in this video, and then sign his SignOn.org petition to President Obama.
The AFL-CIO labor federation made good on its promise to oppose any proposed budget that includes cuts to Social Security and Medicare yesterday posting a strong message and petition on their website and sending out an email to activist groups and individuals. Both the article online and the email were released by Damon Silvers, the […]
Bernie Sanders spoke today about the fact that private citizens are subject to prosecution and imprisonment for committing crimes but that bankers and Wall Street executives are not only “too big to fail” – it seems they are also “too big to jail.” Watch the clip from his YouTube page below:
Elizabeth Warren’s Q&A at the March 14, 2013 Senate HELP Committee hearing titled “Keeping up with a Changing Economy: Indexing the Minimum Wage.” Senator Elizabeth Warren continues to impress, this time with her excellent set of questions during a hearing regarding minimum wage by the Senate HELP Committee (Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions). Warren’s main […]
Here’s a great one from our WTF file: Paul Ryan was defending his budget plan this Sunday on Fox News and admitted that the entire plan is contingent on the repeal of Obamacare. A stunned Chris Wallace of Fox News, had to ask for a clarification and immediately dismissed the idea: CHRIS WALLACE: I’m going […]