| Feb 26, 2014 | Economy / BusinessHave you heard? Our economic policy debate is getting some spring cleaning. President Barack Obama has signaled that he’s had it with all that talk about America being broke and the belt-tightening austerity measures that went along with that chatter. His...
| Jan 3, 2014 | Economy / BusinessAmericans don’t like Big Business. And they don’t like government waste. Put the two together, and we have a nightmare scenario: public money lining the pockets of corporate bigwigs. Even as federal government workers’ pay is repeatedly targeted for...
| Oct 30, 2013 | Peace / SecurityOur bloated military budget contributes significantly to our massive national debt and threatens the very security it’s intended to provide. Several expensive and unnecessary military programs are behind this paradox. The Pentagon should cut them from its $640.5...
| | Rights / DemocracyTea-partying Republicans supposedly pine for smaller government, lower taxes and, of course, the Affordable Care Act’s demise. The conventional wisdom is that these rigid, Republican extremists need to be countered by “moderate” Democrats who will...
| Mar 26, 2012 | Environment / HealthThere’s a scary graph in Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan’s new budget blueprint that shows the federal government’s “unfunded promises” rising from $76.4 trillion in 2010 to $99.6 trillion in 2011. That’s $23.2 trillion in just one year....
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