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Brent Budowsky: George W. Bush: A Disastrous President

2013-04-25T10:32:57Z

The Bush presidency was a disastrous presidency which caused a range catastrophies including the Iraq war, the budget deficit, and the financial crash.

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What Obama And Bush Have In Common

2013-04-24T08:03:55Z

WASHINGTON — Despite vast differences with President George W. Bush on ideology, style and temperament, President Barack Obama has stuck with Bu...

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Ex-Reagan Adviser: Bush's Policies Bankrupt The Country

2013-03-31T13:36:19Z

A former adviser of Ronald Reagan has some choice words for George W. Bush.

David Stockman, Reagan’s budget director from 1981 to 1985, slammed ...

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Howard Dean On Sequester: 'Let It Happen'

2013-02-15T13:22:53Z

WASHINGTON -- Howard Dean is used to being an eccentric within his own party, so the fact that he's urging Democrats to address the impending sequeste...

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Patty Murray: It's The Supply-Side Economics, Stupid

2013-02-12T14:55:50Z

WASHINGTON -- With Congress gridlocked in debates over taxes and spending, the new chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), ...

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Robert Reich: The Economic Challenge Ahead: More Jobs and Growth, Not Deficit Reduction

2013-02-07T08:42:26Z

We're still having the wrong discussion. It shouldn't be how to cut the budget deficit. It should be how to bring back good jobs and economic growth. Deficit hawks and government-haters are still framing the debate. That bodes ill for all of us.

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Sanjay Sanghoee: The American Economy: What Obama Needs to Tell the People

2013-02-01T17:21:11Z

Once again, it is up to President Obama to take the lead and make the American public aware of all this. Our nation is in a hopeful but tricky place right now and which way we go will depend as much on our confidence in ourselves as in any statistics.

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Jim Worth: Twisting in the Wind

2013-01-24T14:07:22Z

Republicans have done a lot of damage. Despite this, the American people have been, characteristically, resilient. But we are at the end of our rope and holding the debt ceiling hostage for destructive spending cuts will do nothing to lengthen it.

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Bob Burnett: Top Ten Taxes

2013-01-18T09:13:31Z

A U.S. carbon tax has the support of both environmentalists and business leaders (including Michael Bloomberg, New York Mayor, and Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO). It would be a rare political twofer that produces massive revenues while lowering emissions of carbon dioxide.

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Sanjay Sanghoee: Beyond Politics: How Clean Energy Can Solve Our Deficit Problem

2013-01-07T16:05:45Z

It should be obvious from these two extremes that what we really need is a system that is fluid while being disciplined, expansive without being prodigal, and one that employs a carrot along with the stick to move the U.S. back towards economic sanity. The trillion dollar question is: Does such a system exist?

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Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam: From Cliff Dwelling to Mountain Climbing

2013-01-04T18:01:04Z

Congress needs to finish its fiscal work successfully and quickly and then pass legislation that will stimulate job creation and growth and development of the economy for the middle class and the working poor.

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Sanjay Sanghoee: House of Fools: Shutting Down the Republican Politics of Blackmail

2013-01-04T16:09:38Z

I don't blame the president for compromising on the fiscal cliff, but the debt ceiling is a whole other matter. Given the severe consequences of a potential default, there is no end to what the GOP might demand.

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Ben Ritz: Fiscal Cliff 2: It Only Gets Worse

2013-01-03T12:45:41Z

Not only is this new cliff more dangerous, but we're also more likely to go over it. A deal would have been much more feasible for Fiscal Cliff 1 than Fiscal Cliff 2.

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Miles Rapoport: On the New Year's Fiscal Agreement

2013-01-02T14:08:04Z

The major question now is, what is the shape of the debate to come? We believe the President and the Democrats' hands are strengthened, not weakened.

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How The Fiscal Cliff Deal Will Cost The U.S. Trillions

2013-01-02T12:40:26Z

Lawmakers’ last-minute fiscal cliff deal could cost the country big time.

The agreement, which Congress passed Tuesday night, would boost the de...

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The Real Losers In The Fiscal Cliff Deal

2013-01-02T08:45:30Z

Senate Democrats and Republicans reached a deal to undo the majority of the so-called “fiscal cliff” by extending most of the Bush tax cuts wh...

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Jeffrey Sachs: Reject the Deal

2013-01-01T11:12:23Z

The White House and Senate have agreed to make the Bush tax cuts permanent for 99 percent of households, starving the federal government of funds. Even Mitt Romney could never have accomplished for the Republicans what Obama has just done for them. The Democrats in the Senate would have soundly rejected the plan if the Republicans had put it forward. There has been a special absurdity to the entire negotiating process, which has violated every standard of rationality and transparency. And meanwhile, the Federal Government is being dangerously weakened in its capacity to help America address the economic, environmental, and social challenges of the 21st century.

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Top Union Urges Lawmakers To Step Back From Fiscal Cliff Deal

2012-12-31T19:07:00Z

WASHINGTON -- Shaking up the "fiscal cliff" negotiations as they enter their closing stages, one of the top labor leaders in the country urged Democra...

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Janet Mason: Averting the Fiscal Cliff: Retired Postal Worker Shames One Percent

2012-12-31T17:40:52Z

The U.S. Treasury Department has been taking contributions toward the national debt since 1961. The largest single donation, made in 1992, was $3.5 million. Most contributions have been under $100 dollars.

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John Arensmeyer: Entrepreneurs on the 'Fiscal Cliff:' Get It Done

2012-12-31T14:03:28Z

Getting a bipartisan agreement on the fiscal cliff puts us on the path to a better future and will allow us to focus on finding smart, pragmatic solutions to these other important issues.

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Fiscal Cliff Deal Would Raise $715 Billion

2012-12-31T12:53:43Z

WASHINGTON -- The preliminary fiscal cliff deal being negotiated by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Vice President Joe Biden would ...

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Liberal Democrat On Fiscal Cliff Talks: 'This Looks Like A Very Bad Deal'

2012-12-31T12:12:41Z

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), one of the leading liberal voices in the Senate, went after his fellow Democrats on Monday for possibly cavin...

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Robert Kuttner: New Year, New Low for Republicans

2012-12-30T22:30:11Z

Obama wanted to be the president who would change the tone in Washington, meaning a more collaborative relationship with the Republicans. That was not to be. The Republicans would not allow it.

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Poll Finds More Support For Obama's Tax Plan

2012-12-30T13:47:00Z

WASHINGTON -- A plurality of Americans favor President Barack Obama's proposal for the expiring Bush tax cuts over several other options, an online Hu...

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Jeffrey Sachs: Going Over the Cliff Is the Only Way to Save the Government

2012-12-29T09:39:49Z

If the deal is reached, the Republicans have won: they have locked in a federal tax system that collects so little total federal revenue that government can afford almost nothing aside from the military, interest payments, retirement programs and health care.

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