Sourced from KeepingGOPHonest.com Romney’s tax plan helps millionaires and hurts the middle class. “The real question people are going to ask is, who’s going to help the American people at a time when folks are having real tough times? And that’s why I put forward a plan to eliminate the tax on savings for middle-income [...]
Archive for the ‘Opinions and Other Issues’ Category
22 Jan
Scrutinize President Obama’s record
When President Obama has a bad day, or more specifically, on days when the economic news has been bad, I get a slew of feedback from conservative readers that go like this: “See, you liberal media nincompoops, this is all your fault, you treated Obama like a saint when he was running in 2007 and [...]
18 Jan
The Economy. It’s still Bush’s fault!
Sourced from Washington Post Byte Morning Fix A majority of Americans believe that former President George W. Bush is more responsible than President Obama for the current economic problems in the country, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Fifty-four percent of respondents said that Bush was more to blame while 29 percent put [...]
18 Jan
Gingrich Plays the Race Card in S.C. Debated
Sourced from The Progressive By Matthew Rothschild, January 17, 2012 In a desperate effort to revive his floundering campaign, he’s flagrantly playing the race card. In the Sunday night debate in South Carolina, he repeated his canard against Barack Obama, calling him “the best food stamp president in American history” and claiming he wants to [...]
16 Dec
Why we should support the VA
Sourced from progressive.org By Suzanne Gordon, December 14, 2011 Some Republican Presidential candidates love to say how much they support veterans, but they lose credibility when they go after the Veterans Administration. Michelle Bachman, for instance, proposes $4.5 billion dollars in cuts to the Veterans Administration. And Mitt Romney wants to kill the VA altogether [...]
2 Dec
Newt V. Mitt: What’s The Difference?
Sourced from Campaign for America’s Future By Bill Scher December 2, 2011 With one month to go before the Iowa caucuses, the debate among Republican primary voters for the moment is between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. It would be premature to conclude that it stays that way all month — the top two candidates [...]
22 Nov
No Country For Young Children
Sourced from Campaign for America’s Future By Jeff Bryant November 22, 2011 – 9:58am ET When you call yourself a “historian,” you create the implication that you can speak authoritatively about, well, history. But last Friday, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich defied that common sense. Speaking at one of America’s top institutions of learning, Harvard’s [...]
14 Nov
Can a Movement Save the American Dream?
Sourced from Campaign for America’s Progress Featured blog entries-CAF 9/22/11 10:34 AM Robert Borosage An Economy for All Making It In America Progressive Vision 501c(3) Take Back the American Dream Co-written with Katrina van den Heuvel. Originally published at The Nation. On October 3 activists from across the country will gather in Washington at the [...]
14 Nov
“Class War” Update
Sourced from Campaign for America’s Progress New report reveals “welfare for millionaires” [Newsweek]: “From unemployment payments to subsidies and tax breaks on luxury items like vacation homes and yachts, Americans earning more than $1 million collect more than $30 billion in government largesse each year, according to the report assembled by Sen. Tom Coburn, a [...]
4 Nov
Warren Buffet has the right idea!
Well written and very well thought out. I agree with the entire plan!!!! Some of this we have all thought for years!!! Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling: “I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just pass a [...]
