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Government Has to Work -- or Else

Harlan Green | Posted 03.06.2012

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What we need to do instead is embark on a massive investment program -- as we did, virtually by accident, 80 years ago -- that will increase our productivity for years to come, and will also increase employment now.

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The Fed's Paralysis -- Who Will Do the Right Thing?

Harlan Green | Posted 10.31.2011

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Why so much emphasis on debt, rather than recovery? It is because of timidity on all sides, from the White House and Congress.

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The Destruction of Our Wealth

Harlan Green | Posted 09.30.2011

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The destruction of middle class wealth and income by Republicans, in particular, has been prolonged and systematic for decades. This standard of living has already declined for most of us since the 1980s, and will continue to decline.

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It's Basic Economics, Stupid -- Curing the Deficit

Harlan Green | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Income Tax, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, Republican Party, St. Louis Federal Reserve, GW Bush, Reagan Presidency, Bush Tax Cuts, Federal Budget Deficit, Business News

What is holding up agreement of a debt ceiling increase is obvious. Republicans want to continue to shrink the middle class when they won't allow repeal of the Bush tax breaks. They do not understand the most basic economic Law of Supply and Demand.

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The Economics of Poverty -- Thinking in Win-Win Terms

Harlan Green | Posted 09.04.2011

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Rather than play the blame game, why not think in Win-Win terms? Why not correct the causes of so much economic instability, which can lead us out of the swamp of debt that has resulted?

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Starving the Beast of Government Starves U.S.

Harlan Green | Posted 08.30.2011

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Why hasn't the 'no new taxes' pledge succeeded? Because Republicans are no better at cutting government spending than Democrats -- in fact, worse.

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Okay, Let's Give Bush All of the Credit He's Due

Larry Womack | Posted 07.06.2011

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Don't forget also to give him credit for the long stretch of blunders and lies that cumulatively gave us the Iraq war, its immediate aftermath, and an oil-rich country left feuding over basic home electricity.

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Congress Circa 112

James Campion | Posted 05.25.2011

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"The business of America is business." -- Calvin Coolidge The 30th president of the United States was ...

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Bushes Thanksgiving

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

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New Torture

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Have We Become Numb to War?

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 05.25.2011

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What has happened to the anti-war movement of old? Why have we as a nation allowed two simultaneous wars to be waged in our name?

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As the Bush Years Wind Down the New York Times Signals Hard Times Ahead for Russia, Venezuela, Iran

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Against the interests of the nation this administration has permitted, even encouraged the dramatic transfer of wealth to oil interests in dimensions beyond the fondest dreams of Croesus.

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Bloggers Lead Media to Report McCain/Palin's Campaign "Lies"

Alan W. Silberberg and Ralph J. Shapira | Posted 05.25.2011

While traditional media have disparaged blogs as being unreliable, that chaotic, unmediated world known as "the blogosphere" has led the way in ferreting truth from falsehood.

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Beating up on Palin Is a Lose Lose for Obama

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: GW Bush, White House, Barack Obama, Vice Presidency, Presidential Race, Gossip, Sarah Palin, Gop, Democrats, Rumor, John McCain, Politics News

He bit hard on the Palin bait and that's a bad thing. A candidate who spends inordinate time and energy trying to tar their opponent runs the same risk as an attorney or a prosecutor in a courtroom.

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Dennis Kucinich Sums It Up

Tom D'Antoni | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kucinich deserves our thanks and gratitude for standing on the floor of Congress Monday and reading the thirty-five Articles of Impeachment of George W. Bush.

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