This article caught my attention mainly because I hadn’t heard much about the court battles on terminating funding for the A-12 because I thought it was done. But the inability of DOD to submit documentation that might justify that the A-12 was not viable due to classified and secret information and specs made an impression […]

by Linda Beale Congressional Progressive Caucus People’s Budget beats Ryan’s corporatist budget by a long shot, but doesn’t get media coverage FAIR has a good point on the way the media have covered the US budget debates. Fact is, the radical right wing budget proposed by radical right Ryan gets lots of coverage. FAIR noted […]

This morning in his Monday column Paul Krugman discussed the need to raise taxes todeal with the long run structural federal deficit. You can read the column at Economist’s view without worrying about the Times’ pay wall. http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/. Every time any one proposes higher taxes Larry Kudlow and the right wing noise machine shouts to […]

by Linda Beale Truth in Budget Numberscrossposted with Ataxingmatter Seems like everybody these days is into misrepresenting, distorting, or at least stretching the facts to suit the spin they want to give. One issue that I raised in my snarky post on the 15th about the Budget commentary was the way most media has described […]

FY 2012 Federal Budget The following links are to federal government sources for the federal budget, OMB The Budget Summary Tables Terminations, Reductions and Savings TESTIMONY OF JACOB J. LEW DIRECTOR OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET BEFORE THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET February 15, 2011