They Are Coming for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid

I was being just a little glib and tongue in cheek when I wrote: We Need To Hold The White House To This Quote: yesterday. But then the budget came out…and it looks like they are hunting the social safety network in the next budget proposal despite the fact that…

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We Need To Hold The White House To This Quote:

White House economic advisor, Larry Kudlow, made the rounds of a few news talk shows on Sunday and said this: White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Trump’s budget “points a steady glide path” toward lower spending and borrowing as a share of the nation’s economy. He also told “Fox…

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No, Newt, YOU Didn’t Balance The Budget

President William Jefferson Clinton did.

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Rob Zerban’s latest video! Bye Bye Paul Ryan…

It’s time to put Rep. Ryan on the unemployment line…and here’s the candidate who will do it!

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What to Cut?

The elephant in the Federal Budget room.

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When Economic Forecasts Go Horribly, Horribly Wrong

In 2008 when President Obama assembled his economic team to help deal with the growing financial crisis, even their worst nightmare scenario woefully underestimated the depth of the economic collapse.  Their failure is now our failure.

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Federal Debt Ceiling

Holding raising the debt ceiling hostage to force additional budget cuts is ridiculous. You want budget cuts, come to the table and lets work on them. But up until know every Rep and Sen was complicit in one way or another for the national debt…you knew what it was going…

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President Obama slams GOP budget posturing

Speaking to a group of campaign donors in what he thought was a private chat on Thursday night, President Barack Obama gave a candid account of Republican efforts to interject their far-right conservative agenda into the federal budget. Obama’s conversation with donors was recorded by CBS Radio News White House…

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VIDEO: President Obama lays out his budget plan while Paul Ryan pouts

Watch as President Barack Obama shares his 2012 federal budget plan, a plan markedly different than the one proposed by House Republicans. President Obama made it abundantly clear he won’t allow Republicans to turn Medicare into a voucher-based system (as they’ve proposed) simply to give tax breaks to the richest…

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I solved the federal budget deficit!

Granted, I did it within the confines of the choices offered by the New York Times, but I solved the federal budget deficit! H/T to Fairly Conservative.

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