austerity

Koch-Republican Austerity Is Killing Michigan Democracy And Poisoning Residents

Koch-Republican Austerity Is Killing Michigan Democracy And Poisoning Residents

Bad things generally happen when corporate fascist take over government and eliminate democracy, and it is a fact of life…

10 years ago

Mocking Democrats’ Deficit Concerns, GOP Passes Permanently Unfunded Tax Cuts

Some people may errantly conclude that Republicans, as typical conservatives, are so set in their ways they are naturally unwilling…

10 years ago

Decent Economic Growth Hides The Increasing Gap Between the Rich and Everyone Else

As long as the wealthy continue benefitting from the President's economic recovery, Republicans will stay the austerity course that continues…

11 years ago

It’s Obvious That Democrats Did All the Compromising on The Budget Agreement

it was fairly clear by the giddy-ass grin on Paul Ryan's face that Senator Murray likely did all the compromising…

11 years ago

Wealthy Libertarians Are Driving Poverty, Unemployment, and Anti-Government Discontent

Wealthy libertarians using austerity to create conditions driving high unemployment, poverty, anti-government discontent, and misplaced anger to further their own…

11 years ago

Natural Born Job Killers: Republicans Are Set to Kill 1 Million More Jobs in 2014

Republicans will be killing 1 million more jobs in 2014, and a new report found that their austerity madness is…

11 years ago

Stuff Rich People Say: Austerity Admissions and Banker Bonuses

Rich people should talk more openly, more often. It would make a progressive agenda a whole lot more achievable.

11 years ago

Austerity Isn’t Working So Republicans Call for More Economic Failure

Republicans however, being true conservatives, are pushing for more austerity in spite of the devastation it is causing in both…

12 years ago

As Boston Was Under Attack, Republicans Tried to Fire All the Government Workers

While Boston was on lockdown and under attack, Republicans were trying to invoke Simpson/Bowles again, which would have resulted in…

12 years ago

Republican Economic Ignorance Is Pushing America Off The Austerity Cliff

For the past two years under Republican rule, America relinquished its leadership position to Europe and became a devotee of…

12 years ago

Republicans Use the Deficit As an Excuse to Cut Food and Health Care for Children

Republicans who are now worried sick about America's children's future, have already taken care to assure future generations will stay…

12 years ago

Republican Policies Result In 20%-32% of Kids In the Poorest Red States Living In Poverty

Republicans in Congress and statehouses have made every attempt to create a permanent underclass living in poverty, and they are…

12 years ago

Will Republican Mind Control Succeed? (Humor)

Republicans take on Nancy Pelosi and, to their peril, Hillary Clinton.

12 years ago

Republicans Return to the Scene of the Crime and Threaten to Hold The Debt Limit Hostage

Republicans are threatening to hold the debt limit increase hostage and they can hardly wait to present their ransom demands…

12 years ago

Paul Ryan Lies In Order to Give The Wealthiest Americans a 15% Tax Cut

Paul Ryan is lying to justify inflicting more pain on the American people for the sheer joy of giving the…

12 years ago

The GOP’s Multi-Pronged War On Women Meets International Women’s Day

International Women's Day celebrated the advances women have made - despite the Republican Party's efforts to drag us back to…

12 years ago

The Koch Brothers Take Credit for Imposing Economic Hardship on Millions of Americans

Koch brothers' front group, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), sent congratulations to Republicans and their supporters around the country for helping…

12 years ago

House Republicans Congratulate Themselves On Killing a Million Jobs

Republicans are congratulating themselves for allowing the dreaded sequester to take effect knowing full well that in the first year…

12 years ago

Democrats Must Call Out The Absurd Canard That Spending Cuts Make The Economy Grow

It is time for Democrats to call out the absurd canard that taking money out of the economy helps the…

12 years ago

Unhinged Republicans Completely Abandon Reality With Latest Sequester Lies

Republicans and their punditry have finally gone so far off the rails to avoid any responsibility for the sequester that…

12 years ago

The Sequester Cuts are the Latest Crime in the Republican War on America

Republicans have revealed that the harm their sequester cuts were intended to cause is part of their plan that defines…

12 years ago

Most Americans Are No Longer Fooled By Republican Buzzwords and Dishonest Slogans

Americans not mesmerized by the GOP's buzzwords like "pro-growth" understand it was President Obama's stimulus that saved the economy and…

12 years ago

House Republicans Embrace Sequester Dirty Bomb In their Economic War on America

When the enemy is in the halls of Congress, and is openly calling for economic destruction to avoid revenue, it…

12 years ago

Republican Austerity Cultists Chant Their Spending Cuts Mantra As They Sink the Economy

One can say with confidence that when Republicans find an economic policy that fails, they are duty-bound to repeat it…

12 years ago

Vindictive Republicans Are Out to Punish Obama and America with Austerity

Republicans are megalomaniacs who will continue punishing the people for re-electing President Obama to raise taxes on the wealthy by…

12 years ago

The Republican Austerity Bomb is the Real Threat to America

Budget negotiation drama is getting more intense as the fiscal cliff or 'austerity bomb' approaches. The stakes for the poor…

12 years ago

Beneath the Romney/Ryan Lies Is an Austerity Plan that Spells Economic Doom

Romney lies to earn the right to repeat Europe's austerity mistakes and give tax cuts to the rich that will…

12 years ago

When Republicans Say Job Creator They Really Mean Poverty Creator

The Republican agenda of cutting food stamps, wages, Medicare, Medicaid, and breaking unions is not about reducing the deficit or…

12 years ago

The Failure of Austerity Demonstrated by Scott Walker and Mitt Romney

Romney and Walker each pushed austerity politics only to end up with abysmal job records, yet polls say gullible voters…

13 years ago

A Global May for a World Ripped off by Banksters

In what is being dubbed, hundreds of thousands of anti-austerity protesters in more than 30 countries have retaken public space…

13 years ago

EU Austerity Rejection Spells Trouble for GOP

There's a funny thing about austerity measures. When adopted alone without a balanced approach to short-term and long-term economic stimuli,…

13 years ago

Your Local Post Office: From Public Service to Profit Piñata

For the past year we have seen an unremitting campaign by the corporate masters of the right wing to try…

13 years ago