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 […]
Paul Ryan demonstrates that Republicans just don’t care about working class Americans. Paul Ryan participated in a Labor Day Parade back in 2011 as part of his campaign and although it is a few years years old, it remains relevant as it shows how Ryan deals the people he is paid to represent. Ryan was […]
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 […]
I won’t be pleased with a budget deal unless the AARP and Grover Norquist both pull their hair out. Then we’ll know we made some progress. News flash: compromise and sacrifice are hard. We need to reduce spending and obligations on everything from Medicare to Defense to Ag subsidies. No sacred cows. And unfortunately, we […]