Stop Coddling the Super-Rich
By WARREN E. BUFFETT
Published: August 14, 2011

OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most ( Read more... )

If you were to listen to Republicans these days, it has to be something apparently even north of 85% spending cuts to less than 15% tax increases (specifically, none, as the House demands it). Of course, when another Republican was sitting in the White House, it was pretty much the opposite. Imagine that.

The Economist
Finding the Republicans’ golden ( Read more... )

by Gaius Publius on 12/13/2010 09:00:00 PM



Here's President Obama talking with Steve Inskeep of NPR. The interview was posted Friday, December 10, 2010.

About Social Security, Obama said:
INSKEEP: Won't Republicans argue - and, in fact, won't reality argue that any cuts will have to be even deeper because this package that you're ( Read more... )

The Fiscal Times
Starve the beast is an unproven deficit management theory that is more bull than it is believable.

Starve the Beast: Just Bull, not Good Economics,
by Bruce Bartlett:

A prime reason why we have a budget deficit problem in this country is because Republicans almost universally believe in a nonsensical idea called starve the ( Read more... )