Reprinted from Alternet. By James Galbraith Public opinion is turning on those who seek to cut our social safety net. In wars, sometimes there comes a moment when the tide turns. The collapse of Ludendorff’s offensive in 1918 presaged the Armistice; failure in the Ardennes meant the end for Germany in 1944. Today we…
Reprinted from Alternet By Dean Baker The bottom line is that President Obama and many leading Democrats are prepared to give seniors a larger hit to their income than they gave to the over $250,000 crowd. According to inside Washington gossip, Congress and the president are going to do exactly what voters elected…
Barak Obama, while addressing a luncheon at the Brookings Institute in 2009 (see short video excerpt below), had this to say about his desire to rewrite the New Deal: “For those on the left — and I include myself in that category — too many of us have been interested in defending programs the…
Reprinted from Alternet By Joshua Holland I thought that by this point, I was beyond the capacity to be shocked by the delusions held by the American Right. But my jaw dropped when I read that a number of high-profile conservatives are outraged about the fiscal slope deal, and believe they have been “rolled” by Obama. The very notion…