Posted on 03 December 2010. Tags: Alan Simpson, Catfood Commission, Debt, Deficit Commission, Deficits, Erskine Bowles, Financial Crisis, Financial Transaction Tax, Health Care, Hysteria, Maria Bartiromo, Military Budget, Nonsense, Peter Peterson, Single Payer, Social Security, Tax Cuts
Over the past three days, we’ve looked at the phony deficit crisis withe excerpts from my new book, "It’s Not Raining, We’re Getting Peed On: The Scam of the Deficit Crisis", here (from the introduction), here (a taste of the the very Stupid Statements made about the deficit and debt) and here (who is behind […]
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Posted on 14 July 2009. Tags: Corporate Greed, Health Care, Insurance Industry, Maria Bartiromo, Single Payer
Even though single-payer, "Medicare for All" is the most effective economic solution to the health care crisis (I’m putting aside the moral question for the sake of this discussion), our political leaders (with the exception of HR676 advocates) and traditional media chattering ideologues do their best to ignore the basic facts. Which is why […]
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Posted on 15 May 2009. Tags: Class Warfare, Financial Crisis, Maria Bartiromo, Progressive Taxation, Unions
Yesterday, I was on CNBC’s Closing Bell to debate the absurd notion that public employees are the people to blame for state government budget problems. But, what was most interesting about the debate with CNBC’s anchor Maria Bartiromo is how she became speechless–and that ain’t no easy feat–when I challenged her about class warfare. […]
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