Well, hello there! As many of you know, my name is Sarah Palin, and just so excited to be here in Washington City t’day, because it’s all about job-creation and health care and stuff and also, as you know, and so many good things. Just real good, real American things. But the real reason [...]
Archive for October 9th, 2008
9 Oct
Idea of the Day: Better Retirement Plans
Center for American Progress October 9, 2008 A recent poll conducted by Bankrate Inc. found that only about 3 in 10 workers expected to have enough money to retire comfortably. Nearly 7 in 10 Americans have set low expectations about their retirement prospects. One in five Americans said they were afraid they would never [...]
9 Oct
ECONOMY
The Page That Won’t Turn According to September polling from Gallup, the percentage of Americans who have “negative” feelings about the economy is now at 81 percent. But Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) campaign admitted this weekend that it is trying to distract the country from focusing on the nation’s economic woes. “We are looking for [...]
9 Oct
McCain fudges his Navy record
CANDIDATE WATCH ?Wreckage of McCain plane, Hanoi, October 1967. “I crashed a plane in Corpus Christi Bay one Saturday morning. The engine quit while I was practicing landings…I took a few painkillers and hit the sack to rest my aching back for a few hours….I was out carousing, injured back and all, later that evening. [...]
9 Oct
No Depression
This Time, Uncle Sam Has Got Our Back By Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Perry Mehrling Thursday, October 9, 2008; Page A21 The Washington Post Global markets have not been reassured by the coordinated interest rate cuts of several central banks or by recent congressional action, but they should be. Our bet is that financial markets [...]
9 Oct
MCCAIN PLANS MEDICARE CUTS
Medicare, Medicaid Spending Would Be Reduced to Offset Proposed Tax Credit BY Laura Meckler Wall St. Journal OCTOBER 6, 2008 John McCain would pay for his health plan with major reductions to Medicare and Medicaid, a top aide said, in a move that independent analysts estimate could result in cuts of $1.3 trillion over 10 [...]
9 Oct
Reality intrudes and McCain buckles
By Dan Payne October 9, 2008 FOR MONTHS, political reporters have reported on what they know best, politics. Attack ads, conventions, polls, debates, and gotchas – what George Will calls stagecraft, as opposed to statecraft, the ideas of the candidates. That suddenly changed when reality intruded in the form of an economic crisis. Wall Street [...]
9 Oct
New Evidence Shows Bush Had No Plan to Catch bin Laden After 9/11
By Gareth Porter, IPS News. Posted October 7, 2008. Mere weeks after 9/11, the Bush administration was too busy planning to invade Iraq to follow through on its mission in Afghanistan. New evidence from former U.S. officials reveals that the George W. Bush administration failed to adopt any plan to block the retreat of Osama [...]
9 Oct
Let’s Just Say You Had $700 Billion to Spend
By Allison Stevens, Women’s eNews. Posted October 9, 2008. A look at what we could do instead with $700 billion to spend fixing up our world. Anti-poverty and women’s rights lobbyists are looking at the government’s $700 billion bank bailout and seeing a way to talk about national spending priorities. “It’s obviously incredibly unfair,” said [...]
9 Oct
Progressive Voter Guide to the Economy
AlterNet. Posted October 9, 2008. From the housing crisis to the minimum wage, a look at where the candidates stand on nine important economic issues. A Gallup poll released this week showed that a majority of Americans — 53 percent — are angry about the financial crisis. And 41 percent are afraid. The system, Americans [...]
