Not for then, and not in 1989 dollars.
It's one of the reasons why those who lived through that, those who were middle-age
Reaganomic
Those of you who aren't old enough to remember the 1980s, what do your parents and grandparen
About Debt Ceiling
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It was $500 billion and that was a mind-blowi
About Debt Ceiling
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I'm curious as to how many posters were around for the Savings & Loan bailout.
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To believe that Obama's "playing chess" is to have ignored the last 2 1/2 years in which Obama has continued just about all of the BushCheney policies and pushed through Republican legislatio
Candidate Obama was all over the place, depending on who was talking to at any given time and what day it was in the campaign, which primaries were done with and who he didn't need to woo anymore.
Obama got into office by misleading Democratic voters. He ran to the left of Hillary Clinton. He convinced centrists that he was a centrist. He convinced liberals he was a liberal posing as a centrist. But guess what?
"Privately, Obama describes himself as a Blue Dog Democrat"
Blue Dog = (might as well be registered as a) Republican
About Health Care
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For those sock puppets dropping "SOCIALISM
'Socialism
Socialism = Democracy
What a radical concept.
FWIW, socialism is not communism; communism is a whole other animal.
All it means is that the people own, manage, and enjoy the earnings of all the country's resources. Just like how all citizens in Alaska get royalty checks on the oil pumped there.
There's probably no wholly socialist nation in the world -- Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland are, for the most part, socialist and their citizens enjoy the high standards of living. Other nations like Great Britain and Canada have socialist programs (like universal healthcare
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Do Democrats Think Changing The COLA a Benefit Cut?:
Yesterday HouseMinorityWhip StenyHoyer seems to have came out strongly against any debt ceiling plan that cuts SocialSecu rity or Medicare benefits. From TheHill:
“We've made it very clear that we have no intention of supporting [a bill] that cuts beneficiaries’ benefits,” Hoyer told reporters Tuesday. The comments represent a subtle but significan t change in Hoyer’s approach to the negotiatin g table. As recently as last week, the Democratic Whip was being careful not to rule out any policy options during the contentiou s debt talks — a position shared by PresidentO bama.
The new-found opposition to benefit cuts from Hoyer would be a welcome development — if it's actually a true opposition to all cuts. The problem is that HouseDemoc rats have been flirting with cutting SocialSecu rity by changing the CostOfLivi ngAdjustme nt (COLA), while at the same time pretending this plan to give people on SocialSecu rity smaller and smaller checks every year doesn’t count as a “cut.” As NancyPelos i said recently (via CBS News):
When asked if changing the SocialSecurity formula for cost of living adjustment s was a de facto benefit cut, Pelosi did not directly answer. “No. Cutting benefits is exactly that. Cutting benefits,” Pelosi said. “There’s concern in my caucus about what would happen with the CPI (ConsumerP riceIndex) . Some think it is a benefit cut, others do not.“
Similarly, the GangOfSix is already trying to say that changing the COLA is not a benefit cut, by claiming a shift to the Chained-CPI would just be adopting a “more accurate measure of inflation.” The real danger facing Social Security is not that Congress will approve something they openly acknowledg e is a cut to benefits. The real threat right now is that they will approve a big stealth cut by changing the COLA and simply lie by saying that isn’t really a cut.
If Hoyer will publicly admit that changing the COLA is an obvious cut in benefits then his new stance is positive news. Without that statement about COLA, however, all Hoyer’s statement is a cynical empty gesture to score political points, which in the end could make this COLA cut to SocialSecurity all the more likely.
We need 60 more like Bernie Sanders in the Senate.
It's outrageous that there are no Democrats doing what Sanders is doing.
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The major reason they all want to kill the healthcare bill as well as the public option is the fear that single payer is more likely to happen now that regular people are mulling this issue.
Before the 2010 midterms, Obama broadcast that he would be doing more of the same, even if Democrats remained the majority and in control of both Houses of Congress. More caving by Obama and Democrats, to Republican
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Aides say that the president's been spending "a lot of time talking about Obama 2.0," brainstorm ing with administra tion officials about the best way to revamp the strategies & goals of the WhiteHouse .
And despite the predictions that Democrats may relinquish a large degree of legislatin g power, including perhaps control of the House & even Senate, Obama isn't thinking of the next two years as a period that'll be marked with the same obstructiv e nature from the GOP.
"It may be that regardless of what happens after this election, [Republicans] feel more responsibl e, either because they didn't do as well as they anticipate d, & so the strategy of just saying no to everything & sitting on the sidelines & throwing bombs didn't work for them," Obama says. "Or they did reasonably well, in which case the American people are going to be looking to them to offer serious proposals & work with me in a serious way."
DickDurbin says Obama's post-election agenda "will have to be limited & focused on the things that are achievable and high priorities for the American people." TomDaschle says Obama has to reach out more: "The keyword is inclusion. He's got to find ways to be inclusive. "
Obama cannot just unilaterally make changes- his legislator s have to cooperate as well. Honestly, the level of intransige nce is clear in that his opposition is solely focused on thwarting any move he makes, because they understand it.
Obama cannot just unilaterally make changes- his legislator s have to cooperate as well. Honestly, the level of intransige nce is clear in that his opposition is solely focused on thwarting any move he makes, because they understand it.
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