budget
Social Security’s defenders wary of deficit reduction commission
Jun 9th
By Lori Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, June 9, 2010 One of the oddest Web posts making the rounds in Washington is a series of blurry videos from Capitol Hill showing people coming and going from a closed-door meeting of President Obama’s new deficit commission. The mundane scenes have a sinister cast for activists [...]
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 [...]
Today’s Broad Brush Issues
Feb 5th
Bipartisan Jobs Bill?
Senate Shoots For Bipartisan Jobs Bill
BREAKING: Labor Dept. monthly jobs report finds unemployment down, but US still not creating jobs: “The unemployment rate fell from 10.0 to 9.7 percent in January, and nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged … Employment fell in construction and in transportation and warehousing, while temporary help services and [...]
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 [...]
Obama unveiling $3.8T federal budget blueprint
Feb 1st
By Lori Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 1, 2010; 9:16 AM
The $3.8 trillion budget blueprint President Obama is submitting to Congress on Monday calls for billions of dollars in new spending to combat persistently high unemployment and bolster a battered middle class. But it also would slash funding for hundreds of programs and raise taxes [...]
Some truths about that deficit
Jan 29th
By Scot Lehigh
January 29, 2010
DEFICIT HAWKS of the world, rejoice! Long ignored, the federal budget deficit has finally arrived as an issue.
President Barack Obama just took a small step forward, announcing a limited federal spending freeze, to commence in 2011, plus a commission to recommend remedies.
The GOP, meanwhile, has suddenly remembered that a long time [...]
