Showing posts with label deficit reduction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deficit reduction. Show all posts
Monday, July 4, 2016

Short: 'Fix the Debt' is fixed

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A great article from Jonathan Chait about a pro-deficit reduction group that is strangely biased towards whatever the GOP offers. Chait tak...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Rant about healthcare spending

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I'm fed up with conservatives who complain that Obamacare is going to bankrupt the country but never turn their gaze on Medicare. The me...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Missing: Real fiscal negotiations

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. . . chasing a fetish instead For some unknown reason, the GOP decided to forego fiscal negotiations in the run-up to the appropriations ...
Monday, March 18, 2013

Budget FAIL x 2

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Ryan budget - FAIL Senate Democratic budget - FAIL NO SURPRISE. I could leave it at that, but the topic deserves serious consideration,...
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Why do Democrats love tax increases?

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So the Democrats got a substantial tax increase on the wealthy at the beginning of the year. That should be enough for the fiscal health of ...
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Friday, February 15, 2013

Short: Why I'm writing more about the GOP

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I struggle to write about the Democratic side of the political equation lately. Their positions and proposals are so stale that I just roll ...
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Monday, February 11, 2013

No-budget Obama

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I hope you noticed this: Obama doesn't want the sequester to go ahead as is, but he isn't offering a replacement plan. That's t...
Thursday, January 3, 2013

Lessons learned from the fiscal cliff

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Prepare for a surprise. I'm not going say again how blind the GOP was to the situation, and they should wake up. I'm not going t...
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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Short: Tax increases for everyone!

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Here's a good article outlining why the GOP should let the country go over the fiscal cliff. This is the reason in one sentence: ...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

Negotiation box score update - more FAIL

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Well, this isn't as much fun as I hoped it would be. The GOP is hopelessly mired in the idea that they can get a lot by giving a tiny ...
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Monday, December 3, 2012

Negotiation box scores

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The Atlantic Wire had a neat summary of the negotiation offers, and I think I'll steal the idea. It'll be fascinating to see the ev...
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Saturday, December 1, 2012

Screw the "greater good"

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That appears to be the position of the leadership of both parties. Neither party wants to risk the blame for the pain of budget cuts, so the...
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Monday, November 19, 2012

The GOP's big risk that backfired

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Conservatives had bet big on being able to defeat the Democrats and take control of the federal government. They were largely successful in ...
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Friday, November 16, 2012

Bad news for spending cuts

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The results of this election, with Obama reelected and more Dems in the Senate, point to a harder line by the Dems against spending cuts. Th...
Monday, October 8, 2012

Debate 1 reaction

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So I made myself watch the entire debate. It wasn't as painful as I was expecting because 1) I was forewarned, 2) I'm well aware o...
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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Short: The sequester quantified

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I'm not a complete nerd, but I long ago decided not to be scared of numbers, so I looked at the 394-page sequester report . The report ...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Hail to the sequester

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I'm a fan of the sequester for a simple reason: it cuts spending. Spending has to be cut. We are running a huge deficit that isn't g...
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Friday, July 27, 2012

Fighting the Sequester/Defending it

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The GOP has regretted the defense cuts they agreed to last August almost as soon as the ink was dry. Now  few Democrats are getting into ...
Friday, June 15, 2012

"The worst danger facing the US:" A retrospective

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Back in the early 1980's, when Reagan was president and the USSR was a communist state instead of a lot of kleptocracies, I read an arti...
Monday, June 4, 2012

Puzzled by this campaign

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The title says it. I don't understand how the issues in this campaign are unfolding. Not surprisingly, the GOP are on the attack, and De...