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The following was written by Robert B Reich, former Secretary of Labor in the
Clinton administration, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the
University of California at Berkeley:
I
hope the President starts negotiations over a “grand bargain” for
deficit reduction by aiming high. After all, he won the election. And if
the past four years has proven anything it’s that the White House
should not begin with a compromise.
Assuming the goal is $4
trillion of deficit reduction ... Continue reading ...
Posted by on Monday, November 12, 2012,
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Posted by on Sunday, August 19, 2012,
Long before he became one of the right’s most vocal critics of the idea that government spending could help boost the flagging economy, Mitt Romney's choice for his Republican Presidential running mate, Representative Paul Ryan offered a forceful, full-throated defense of stimulus spending — when then-President George W. Bush wanted it in 2002.Ryan has denounced the 2009 Recovery Act signed by President Obama as “a wasteful spending spree” and “failed neo-Keynesian experiment,” an... Continue reading ...
Posted by on Saturday, June 9, 2012,
The
nation is still recovering from a crushing recession that sent
unemployment hovering above nine percent for two straight years. The
president, mindful of soaring deficits, is pushing bold action to shore
up the nation's balance sheet. Cloaking himself in the language of class
warfare, he calls on a hostile Congress to end wasteful tax breaks for
the rich.
"We're going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that allow some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share," h... Continue reading ...
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