Baby boomers did not contribute to the economic decline of America. Actually, they helped create consumerist prosperity with teenager allowances and middle age purchases.
AlterNet teams up with Salon and Brave New Foundation to document how Dems on the Congressional "supercommittee" get far more military campaign money and contracts than the GOP.
The administration floated the idea of cutting Social Security, then denied it just as quickly. What's really going on with all this debt ceiling brinksmanship?
Under the current system, we have elderly people living on less than $10,000 a year. Is that what Democrats want to "save"? Let's grow Social Security.
Riane Eisler, Rene Redwood, American Forum. May 19, 2011.
Investment in human infrastructure is essential for success in the post-industrial economy. Gutting social programs such as Medicare is behavior that borders on the criminal.
Obama has a smart idea for outflanking the GOP but by focusing the public’s attention on the budget deficit, the President is still playing on their field.
A rhetorical deception -- confusing Medicare/ Medicaid with Social Security, which is far more solvent -- is perpetrated countless times every day in nearly every media outlet.
Republicans are elevating Rep. Paul Ryan, whose disastrous conservative economic "roadmap" will gut the social safety net and put money in the hands of the rich.
