The Commission That Should go Away
Frankly, this is good news: WASHINGTON—The bipartisan commission examining how to cut the federal debt ended three days of closed-door meetings Thursday without a firm agreement among its 18...
View ArticleDebt Is Not A Sin–When We Build The Country
This coming week, the drumbeat will get louder with the rhetoric about the phony government debt/deficit "crisis". I’ll be writing more about this in conjunction with my new book, "It’s Not Raining,...
View ArticleIt’s Not Raining, We’re Getting Peed On (1): The Scam of the Deficit Crisis
The government’s deficit and debt are not a big crisis. It’s not even a little crisis. It’s not a crisis at all. What is most disturbing is how many liberals/progressives have thrown in the towel and...
View ArticleIt’s Not Raining, We’re Getting Peed On (2): The Scam of the Deficit Crisis
Yesterday, I kicked off a series of posts about the phony deficit/debt "crisis" with an excerpt from the introduction to my new book, "It’s Not Raining, We’re Getting Peed On: The Scam of the Deficit...
View ArticleIt’s Not Raining, We’re Getting Peed On (3): The Scam of the Deficit Crisis
In the last two days, I’ve written about the phony deficit/debt "crisis" here and here, using excerpts from my new e-book, "It’s Not Raining, We’re Getting Peed On: The Scam of the Deficit Crisis"....
View ArticleIt’s Not Raining, We’re Getting Peed On (4): The Scam of the Deficit Crisis
Over the past three days, we’ve looked at the phony deficit crisis withe excerpts from my new book, "It’s Not Raining, We’re Getting Peed On: The Scam of the Deficit Crisis", here (from the...
View ArticleCatfood Commission Dead: Thank God
What a waste of time. They can now drift into obscurity. But, after listening to the self-congratulations of many of the members of the Catfood Commission, all I can say is: we have a long task ahead...
View ArticleHyperbole on the Deficit
You all know, just by looking over here to the right, what I think about the phone deficit-debt scam. And, trust me, you ain’t see nothing yet when it comes to hyperbole and nonsense. A whiff comes...
View ArticleDemocrats Supporting Medicare Cuts? The Catfood Commission’s Dangerous...
I feel almost like this will be a full-time job for many of us: trying to undo the stupidity racing throughout the political leadership when it comes to the foolish belief that we have some deficit or...
View ArticleSchakowsky Tries To Stop Robbery Of The People
Jan Schakowsky is really one of my favorite elected leaders. I wish she had run for the U.S. Illinois Senate seat in 2010 but she continues to carry the torch in the House. Yesterday, she unveiled a...
View ArticleThere Is NO Debt-Deficit Crisis
We keep repeating the same mistake–no matter how many times good progressive leaders, writers, thinkers and activists use the word "framing". And we are at it again–offering "better proposals" to...
View ArticlePete “Donald Trump” Peterson and His Lunatic Campaign Against Social...
It is easy if you are a billionaire to get attention. You spend a ton of money on some idea–even it’s sheer lunacy–and you can buy attention. Donald Trump did it–but his "pursuit" of the...
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Obama Is Not The Issue. This Is About US
The anger against the president that has been rocketing around many circles of liberal/progressive politics is misplaced. The crisis we face isn’t about what the president is doing, or failing...
View ArticleA Blow Job For Bowles (And His Sidekick)
Let me start by immediately apologizing for using the description of a sexual act in a headline and, particularly, in reference to an article written by a woman transcriber of press releases (formerly...
View ArticleIn The Category of “Duh”…And The Omission
That the whole phony debt crisis has been driven by people with deep ties to business interests and the elite will not come as a surprise to people who read this blog — I’ve been pointing this out for...
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