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Dick Durbin: Sacrificing Social Security, Recovery?

Curtis Black | Posted 10.09.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Dave Johnson, Russ Feingold, Nancy Altman, Social Security, Jobs Crisis, Tea Party, Strengthen Social Security, Robert Reich, Debt Crisis, President Obama, Deficit Reduction Commission, Federal Deficit, People's Budget, Center for America's Future, Dick Durbin, Bill Daley, Medicaid, Entitlement Reform, Citizens for Tax Justice, Senator Bernie Sanders, Debt Ceiling, Robert Borosage, William Greider, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Center for Economic Policy and Research, American Dream Movement, Elizabeth Drew, Senator Richard Durbin, Medicare, Gang of Six, Dean Baker, Chicago News
Curtis Black

Now that the debt ceiling crisis is behind us, it's time to take a look at Senator Durbin's role in shifting the debate away from the jobs crisis and legitimizing attacks on Social Security.

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The Social Security/Medicare "Crisis" Is Really a Choice - Between the Middle Class and the Wealthy

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 07.17.2011 | Politics
Read More: Dave Johnson, Strengthen Social Security, Tom Coburn, Debt Crisis, Medicare, Social Security, Dean Baker, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

We're being told that there's a "crisis" and we can no longer afford the middle-class American dream. The truth is the opposite: Our worst long-term problems aren't caused by the middle class, but by politicians who sacrifice the middle class for wealthy interests.

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The F Word: Public Workers Getting Snowed

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: F Word, Scott Walker, Queens, Brooklyn, Workers, Broadway, Dave Johnson, Grit Tv, Public Workers, Center for American Progress, Andrew Cuomo, Sanitation, The F Word, Bloomberg, Labor, Blizzard, Laura Flanders, Plow, Snow, John Boehner, Trains, Grittv, Transit, Union, Public Services, New York News
Laura Flanders

Non-New Yorkers gloat beware -- the Big Apple's storm offers just a taste of the problems that are likely to be coming your way.

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Republican "Fifth Column" Strikes Financial Commission. Are YOU Next?

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Republican Saboteurs, Robert Rubin, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Fcic, Precognition, Dave Johnson, Keith Hennessey, Steve Benen, Sleeper Cells, The Minority Report, Bill Thomas, Digby, Mutants, Peter Wallison, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Business News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

A sleeper cell of four Republicans struck the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission this week, escalating what had previously been a campaign of covert obstruction into an overt act of sabotage.

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A Love Affair Gone Wrong: Liberals Abandon Their Beloved Obama

Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Dave Johnson, Bill Clinton, Shirley Sherrod Andrew Breitbart, Andrew Breitbart, Congress, Unemployment Extension 2010, Social Networking, Liberals, President Obama, Breitbart, Obama, Democrats, Unemployment Extension, Recession, Barack Obama, Social Media, Economic Recession, Great Recession, Shirley Sherrod Racism, Sarah Palin, Harry Reid, Shirley Sherrod, New Media, Hillary Clinton, Climate Legislation, Shirley Sherrod USDA, Republican Party, Climate Bill, Republicans, Politics News
Michelle Kraus

We liberals should be mad as hell at the opposition -- Breitbart and Fox News -- not Obama or his administration that fell over itself in the Shirley Sherrod affair.

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Washington Post Misinforms Readers About Deficit

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Debt, Deficit, Washington Post, U.S. Budget Deficit, Dave Johnson, What Is the Budget Deficit?, Media News
Dave Johnson

Obama did not "balloon" the deficit, as the Washington Post claimed.

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People As Products: Taking Advantage Of The Elderly

Martin Bosworth | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Dave Johnson, Lazard, Assisted Living, Bruce Wasserstein, Investment, Economy, Atria, Nursing Homes, Gilded Age, Russ Wellen, Capitalism, Seniors, Business News
Martin Bosworth

The Atria management has been cutting services, cutting wages, reducing benefits, and demanding more from both its workers and the product itself -- the seniors.

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