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Globe’s jaded Adrian Walker misses the point in Springfield

June 4, 2012 By skifree_99 58 Comments

Adrian Walker's reporting or opinion piece in the Globe today just seemed so far off-base. First, it wasn't clear that he acutally talked with any delegates and, second, he just seemed bored and slightly irritated that he had to go to … [Read more...]

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Bernie Sanders speech on the war on the middle class

December 10, 2010 By skifree_99 5 Comments

Fabulous Vt. Senator Bernie Sanders' speech on floor of senate http://tinyurl.com/2fwh6lm … [Read more...]

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republican, conservative themes

September 27, 2010 By skifree_99 1 Comment

******************************* Wrecking Crew Themes: Goal: More business in government, less government in business, via deregulation, tax cuts and privatization Big government as the chief domestic enemy, the best public servants are the … [Read more...]

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Christina Romer – Not my Father’s Recession

September 1, 2010 By skifree_99 Leave a Comment

Subtitle = "The Extraordinary Challenges and Policy Responses of the First Twenty Months of the Obama Administration" This recession was fundamentally different Why we need to do both even more stimulus funding and  tax cuts. full … [Read more...]

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Supreme Court and Campaign Finance

January 26, 2010 By skifree_99 3 Comments

Can someone explain to me how, with the relaxation of the campaign finance rules, you can prevent some major international corporation from influencing elections? Let's say Siemens, for instance, would like a certain person elected. … [Read more...]

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DeMint, Hypocrisy, and the TSA

December 31, 2009 By skifree_99 35 Comments

OK, so  the GOP is upset with the underwear bomber security failure and they continue to try to use it to make political hay. Yet, oddly, they also continue to block the appointment of the new head of the TSA. HuffPo states Sen. Jim … [Read more...]

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Hoover Revisited by Minority Leader Boehner

March 10, 2009 By skifree_99 Leave a Comment

Republican efforts over the decades to discredit, diminish, and demean Roosevelt's efforts to get the US out of the economy are still alive despite the fact that the depression was 3 years old before Roosevelt took office. Thye seem intent … [Read more...]

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The Great Transformation

December 11, 2008 By skifree_99 1 Comment

We are on the cusp of a dramatic transformation of our economy caused by energy security concerns, past and future oil shocks, and imminent and dramatic climatic disruptions caused by greenhouse gases. Take a look at the 2025 Global Trends … [Read more...]

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Ed Markey, Market Meltdown and Derivatives

October 9, 2008 By skifree_99 1 Comment

Today's NYT has a long article on the role of deriviates in the market meltdown, Greenspan's continuous faith in them and Ed Markey's attempts to regulate them. Kudos to Markey. Too bad for all of us he was not successful. … [Read more...]

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Death of Reagan-Thatcher Economics Part II

October 1, 2008 By skifree_99 Leave a Comment

Notes from another witness of the ugly death throes of the ideology of unregulated capitalism Slow Rise for a New Era By Harold Meyerson, WaPo Wednesday, October 1, 2008; A17 We are, just now, stuck between eras. The old order -- the … [Read more...]

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BenDowningMABen Downing@BenDowningMA·
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Our leaders didn’t prepare us for the virus, or a shock like it, and that left all of us, but particularly the most vulnerable, exposed. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/06/nation/mass-surpasses-16000-deaths-due-covid-19/ #mapoli

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It’s telling that the last two Democratic Presidents began their presidencies with a “Recovery Act” and a “Rescue Plan” because their inheritances were so catastrophic.

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Beautiful urban visions from @berkie1 !

Sure would help to have a robust, thriving public transit system to enable this.

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DrEricDingEric Feigl-Ding@DrEricDing·
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Let this sink in— 5,700,000 children will be lifted out of poverty soon by President Biden’s #COVID19 relief aid passed by Congress.

Zero Republicans (House/Senate) voted for it.

Only way we passed it that Democrats won 2 senate seats for a 50-50 tie & VP Harris made it 51-50. https://twitter.com/chrislu44/status/1366524803742597120

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This deserves a lot more attention

New analysis: 13.1 million fewer Americans would be in poverty after the passage of Biden's economic relief bill

Significantly, the child poverty rate would be cut in half. That's 5.7 million fewer kids in poverty https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/news-internal/2021/presidential-policy/biden-economic-relief-proposal-poverty-impact?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210228&instance_id=27598&nl=the-morning®i_id=103545475&segment_id=52539&te=1&user_id=cd59d05eab07f3403b8db65ae0fa15b3

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jonfavsJon Favreau@jonfavs·
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“..it could become one of the most effective laws to fight poverty in a generation. Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy estimates that the plan would reduce the poverty rate by more than a quarter for adults and cut the child poverty rate in half.”

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