Yup. Definitely the way to go. No doubt about it. Rep. Ellmers has found the key. Out of the mouths of babes. (One babe, anyway.) Good grace. —- PS: Thanks, Ms. Schow. Good job. And thanks, David Weigel. Excellent job.
David Kay Johnston re-frames the story of what happens to your money in this age of tax cuts as the road to prosperity: Why are so many Americans feeling squeezed economically even as the economy expands at an accelerating pace? Last month set a new record for sustained job creation: 52 straight months of added […]
The New York Times has a wonderful graphic miss-urled How the Year You Were Born Influences Your Politics. Jon Chait points out that this URL (and a tweet) are accurate only if you are white (he doesn’t add that it only works if you are also a US citizen). I think you will enjoy clicking […]
by Dale Coberly For some time now the Social Security Trustees have been reporting in the “media” using scare tactics like this: “Social Security Going Broke Sooner Than We Thought! Faces [fill in the blank] Trillion Dollar Deficit!” And I have tried to explain that what those numbers mean is that we need to raise […]
Via Demos comes this note on Our enormous retirment subsidies to the rich: …it behooves us to collectively recall just how much money the federal government is already devoting to subsidizing private retirement accounts. Those in policy circles tend to be aware of this stuff, but it largely escapes the glare of everyone else. Each […]
by Barkley Rosser at Econospeak The Wannabe Caliphate Openly Declares Itself So I earlier argued here that ISIS(ISIL) or DAEESH was not yet claiming itself to be a caliphate, and that its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was only calling himself “al Hakim,” or “Ruling Emir,” even as I recognized that he had turned over this […]
Lifted from commnents in open thread in resonse to Tom Coburn’s comments on SSDI, by ilsm: Going after SSDI scalawags. The congress just added 4 more F-35 to the 2015 buy than Obama asked for. The F-35 is currently grounded because the engines tend to blow up and catch fire when […]
The NPR radio show “Market Place” did an interview with President Obama last week. As they do in such interviews he was asked to describe his job in 5 words or less. This is what President Obama stated: My job is to: Keep the American people safe and to create a platform for hard working people to succeed. […]
I thought it worthwhile to re-post this quote from a time before the Tea Party even thought of being as a reminder that the current struggle between the Republican ‘Establishment’ and the Tea Party has nothing to do with the former being some remnant of the 50s-60s era of mainstream Republicans being the ‘Goo-Goo’ Party. […]
There are what I perceived as problems with the Brookings Study. Just one example: they base much of their analyses upon “lifetime earnings associated with earning a bachelor’s degree”. The average lifetimes earnings of degree holders is certainly skewed significantly upwards by the top 10% of earners (who account for over 40% of all earnings, […]