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Wall Street Bailout comparison

…and Democracy’s latest assessment of dollars disbursed in the bailout graphically illustrates the extraordinary lengths to which the federal government went to bailout the financial sector. The silence from deficit

We learn why they hate social security

Lifted from an e-mail from coberly We learn why they hate social security: NCPSSM e-mail (update) Apparently, these are the “good-old days” our nation’s fiscal hawks relish. The Peterson Foundation’s…

Lieberman Says He Will Support a Filibuster

…increased spending and deficits makes one a fiscal hawk. Recently, a Lieberman aid publicly said he would vote for cloture. This is a stab in the back. I may be…

Stimulus Package Infrastructure

…budget hawks is on Div A. So when we single out a certain line item for better or worse we are talking about some percentage of $365 billion. With that…