Boehner and the Republicans don’t want to give up the leverage of the debt ceiling forever, or for 10 years, or even, as John Engler, head of the Business Roundtable and a former Republican governor suggested, for five years. But the White House isn’t very interested in compromising on this issue, as they figure that [...]
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SOMEONE IN the national media just woke up. Consider it an early Christmas present. From Michael Grunwald of Time magazine: Fiscal Cliff Fictions: Let’s All Agree to Pretend the GOP Isn’t Full of It It’s really amazing to see political reporters dutifully passing along Republican complaints that President Obama’s opening offer in the fiscal cliff [...]
News Desk: Fast-food Workers Walk in Biggest Effort to Unionize Ever Launched
“Hey, hey, what do you say? We demand fair pay.” PEOPLE CAN’T live a quality life on what fast-food companies pay their workers. Their bosses are making millions and the disparity has finally reached the tipping point. Fast-food workers at several restaurants in New York walked off the job on Thursday, firing the first salvo [...]
Goldman Sachs Bailout King Blankfein to Powwow with House Republicans, While Obama Rules Out Social Security For Now
GOLDMAN SACHS bailout king CEO Lloyd Blankfein is headed to Capitol Hill to push his ideas for the fiscal cliff scheme in person. The guy who advised that the Social Security “retirement age has to be changed” in an interview with Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes recently, is headed to a meeting with House Republicans [...]
News Desk: Wall Street 1-Percenter Lloyd Blankfein Joins Bowles and Simpson
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy LOOK OUT! The “all star trifecta” is what they’re being called. It’s the big guns coming for your safety net. Tell me one good reason I should now start trusting the nonsense Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson are trying to hoist on the [...]
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