Unsustainable Budget Threatens Nation
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 25th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Unsustainable Budget Threatens Nation
10 Ex-CEA Chairs, Politico
Repeated battles over the 2011 budget are taking attention from a more dire problem—the long-run budget deficit.Divided government is no excuse for inaction. The bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, under co-chairmen Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, issued a report on the problem in December supported by 11 Democrats and Republicans — a clear majority of the panel’s 18 members.
Tim Pawlenty’s Path to The GOP Nomination
Jay Cost, Weekly Standard
In the pre-reform age of presidential nominating politics (1831-1968), when the quadrennial convention was actually a meeting of party leaders to select a nominee, a guy like Tim Pawlenty might have been an ideal compromise choice between various factions of the Republican party. Here is a two-term governor from a historically Democratic state, one who managed to govern as a conservative and still win reelection in a bad year for Republicans (2006). Even then he might not have been a first ballot winner ““ he's a folksy Midwesterner without much flash, and it's…
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William Greider, The Nation
Government, Privilege & Crony Capitalism
John Stossel, FOX Business
In America today, the biggest recipients of handouts are not poor people. They're corporations.General Electric CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt is super-close to President Obama. The president named Immelt chairman of his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Before that, Immelt was on Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. He's a regular companion when Obama travels abroad to hawk American exports. (Why does business need government to do that?) Receive news alerts”Jeff Immelt is perhaps the CEO who is most cozy with President Obama,” says journalist Tim Carney….