deficit
Grow The Economy, Reduce The Deficit, Invest In The Future
Jul 1st
Campaign for America’s Future I support smart economic policies to reduce the structural deficit over time. However, I want to share three major concerns. 1. We are in danger of killing or weakening needed growth in the name of reducing deficits. My organization is a member of the Jobs for America Now coalition, and we [...]
America’s candor gap on the budget
Feb 8th
washingtonpost.com
By Robert J. Samuelson
Monday, February 8, 2010
In all the recent reports, speeches and news conferences concerning the federal budget outlook — including the administration’s proposed budget for 2011 — hardly anyone has posed these crucial questions: What should the federal government do and why; and who should pay? We ought to go back to [...]
A Very Obama Budget
Feb 5th
Obama, Federal Budget, Center for American Progress
Federal Budget
The President’s 2011 Budget Reflects His Unwavering Priorities
By Michael Ettlinger | February 1, 2010
The president’s budget reflects the important investments that he has championed since his first entry into the race to become president—the economy, health reform, education, and energy—balanced with the particular needs of a nation just [...]
More Thoughts on the Budget (Deficit)
Feb 2nd
Campaign for America’s Future
Common Sense on Budgets
Amid the blizzard of statistics, trillion-dollar deficits, howls about impending bankruptcy, and Republican stupocrisy that surround the budget, it is worth repeating a little common sense.
DIGBY
Deficit Fever
Suddenly, you can’t turn around without getting a panicked lecture about the deficit. But in all the discussions about the horrifying, worse-than-terrorism, scarier-than-nuclear-war [...]
Deficit Peacocks
Jan 27th
thinkprogress.org
ECONOMY
Deficit Peacocks
As the Obama administration and Congress deal with the economic problems facing the country — including double-digit unemployment, a housing crisis, credit shortage, and stagnating wages — one issue that has captured the headlines in recent days is that of the national debt. Publicly held debt currently stands at nearly $7.8 trillion, and the [...]
