ROBERT KUTTNER Repairing Housing Policy prospect.org — President Obama has three big tasks if he is to get the economy on a path to recovery. One is massive public spending. The second is getting a banking system functioning again. And third is stemming the cycle of home foreclosures. THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER The Audacity to Reverse [...]
Archive for March 4th, 2009
4 Mar
Broad Brush Issues
Progressive Breakfast: Shovels Hit Ground By Bill Scher March 4th, 2009 Shovels Hit Ground CNN reports on release of transportation stimulus funds: [President] Obama and [Transportation Sec. Ray] LaHood on Tuesday announced the release of $27 billion in funds from the stimulus package “to help states create a 21st-century infrastructure.” The president said it is [...]
4 Mar
MEDICARE PUTS KINK IN RETIREMENT PLAN
HOLLY NICHOLSON The News & Observer February 17, 2009 Q: My wife and I have read that Medicare premiums for Part B may rise substantially in 2009 based on taxable income. We are the same age and planning to retire in 2009 when we are eligible for Medicare. We have both converted fairly large IRAs [...]
4 Mar
Rush to the Wrong Choice
By Kathleen Parker Wednesday, March 4, 2009; 12:00 AM It’s been a win-win the past few days for Democratic and Republican loyalists, but what about the rest of us? You know. Americans who either don’t think that (a) spending nonexistent trillions is quite the way to proceed in an economic crisis, or that (b) Rush [...]
4 Mar
Minority Leader Limbaugh
By David Plouffe Wednesday, March 4, 2009; Page A15 The 2008 election sent many messages. At the top: Americans wanted to turn the page on the politics of division and partisan pettiness, and they wanted a government — and country — that would put the middle class first. Watching the Republicans operate this past month, [...]
4 Mar
Who You Calling Socialist?
By Harold Meyerson Wednesday, March 4, 2009; Page A15 “We are all socialists now,” proclaims Newsweek. We are creating “socialist republics” in the United States, says Mike Huckabee, adding, on reflection, that “Lenin and Stalin would love this stuff.” We are witnessing the Obama-era phenomenon of “European socialism transplanted to Washington,” says Newt Gingrich. Well! [...]
4 Mar
A Week of Revelation
By Michael Gerson Wednesday, March 4, 2009; Page A15 After a month of personnel appointments and canine selection, last week was the Obama administration’s week of revelation. In a speech at Camp Lejeune, President Obama pledged “to succeed” in what candidate Obama called a “misguided war” in Iraq — slowing down his promised pace of [...]
4 Mar
A Farewell to Jobs
March 3, 2009 Tomgram: Jill Fraser, A Farewell to Jobs [Note for TomDispatch readers: Not to be missed -- the Nation Institute, which so nobly supports this website, Nation Books, and Alternet are co-hosting a panel discussion, "Meltdown: The Economic Collapse and a People's Plan for Recovery," with an all-star cast that includes Katrina vanden [...]
