http://omblog.net/index.html We want to talk about politics and religion; the two things to avoid at family reunions. en-us Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:19:34 -0500 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:19:34 -0500 Easy Blogs ( http://www.easyblogs.com ) http://omblog.net/2010083w.html#e2360 http://omblog.net/2010083w.html#e2360 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:19:34 -0500 Dean Baker ......Our income is a cost to the rich. They will look to cut it wherever they can, whether this is wages for private sector workers, pensions for public employees, or Social Security for retirees. That is their target. We have to fight... http://omblog.net/2010082w.html#e2359 http://omblog.net/2010082w.html#e2359 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:26:01 -0500 Peter Dreier and Donald Cohen Alf Landon, the Kansas governor running as the Republican Party's 1936 presidential candidate, called it a "fraud on the working man" and "a cruel hoax." The New York Times, in an editorial, said it was "ill-considered"... http://omblog.net/2010082w.html#e2358 http://omblog.net/2010082w.html#e2358 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:12:57 -0500 Arianna Huffington .....And it's not just about dismal unemployment figures and gloomy foreclosure numbers. As the New York Times reported last week, Hawaii has gone beyond laying off teachers and has begun laying off students -- closing its public schools... http://omblog.net/2010082w.html#e2357 http://omblog.net/2010082w.html#e2357 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:50:41 -0500 http://omblog.net/2010082w.html#e2356 http://omblog.net/2010082w.html#e2356 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:34:50 -0500 Krugman "But isn't keeping taxes for the affluent low also a form of stimulus? Not so you'd notice. When we save a schoolteacher's job, that unambiguously aids employment; when we give millionaires more money instead, there's a good chance that most of that... http://omblog.net/2010082w.html#e2355 http://omblog.net/2010082w.html#e2355 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:59:49 -0500 Maha In a column titled “America Goes Dark,” Paul Krugman writes about the collapsing empire. … a country that once amazed the world with its visionary investments in transportation, from the Erie Canal to the Interstate Highway... http://omblog.net/2010075w.html#e2354 http://omblog.net/2010075w.html#e2354 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:16:41 -0500 Digby Matthews asked Paul Ryan (R-AynRandFanboy) today if we should let the Bush tax cuts expire: I don't think it's a good idea, especially when we're trying to come out of a jobless recovery and slow growth recovery. We've got unemployment at almost... http://omblog.net/2010075w.html#e2353 http://omblog.net/2010075w.html#e2353 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:08:55 -0500 Infographic by The Big Picture http://omblog.net/2010073w.html#e2352 http://omblog.net/2010073w.html#e2352 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:35:54 -0500 via digby, Chris Hayes of "The Nation" nails it.     Conservatives and their neoliberal allies don't really care about deficits; they care about austerity—about gutting the welfare state and redistributing wealth upward. That's... http://omblog.net/2010072w.html#e2351 http://omblog.net/2010072w.html#e2351 Fri, 9 Jul 2010 21:45:44 -0500 David Sirota ...."During the period 1951-63, when marginal rates were at their peak - 91 percent or 92 percent - the American economy boomed, growing at an average annual rate of 3.71 percent," he wrote in February. "The fact that the marginal rates were... http://omblog.net/2010072w.html#e2350 http://omblog.net/2010072w.html#e2350 Mon, 5 Jul 2010 13:51:10 -0500 Bob Cesca Reflecting this post by Atrios, Republicans have always been vigorously preoccupied with the notion that poor people -- as well as unemployed people in the aftermath of a deep recession -- are somehow spoiled and overly pampered. Meanwhile,... http://omblog.net/2010072w.html#e2349 http://omblog.net/2010072w.html#e2349 Mon, 5 Jul 2010 10:53:54 -0500 Atrios Our elites are populated with significant numbers of people who truly believe that the biggest problem this country faces is that poor people have it a bit too good. It's all very depressing http://omblog.net/2010072w.html#e2348 http://omblog.net/2010072w.html#e2348 Mon, 5 Jul 2010 10:16:42 -0500 Krugman .....Today, American workers face the worst job market since the Great Depression, with five job seekers for every job opening, with the average spell of unemployment now at 35 weeks. Yet the Senate went home for the holiday weekend without extending... http://omblog.net/2010071w.html#e2347 http://omblog.net/2010071w.html#e2347 Sat, 3 Jul 2010 19:33:24 -0500 Krugman debunks all of the "Stop spending!" deficit hawk shriekery. "This conventional wisdom isn't based on either evidence or careful analysis. Instead, it rests on what we might charitably call sheer speculation, and less charitably call figments... http://omblog.net/2010071w.html#e2346 http://omblog.net/2010071w.html#e2346 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:16:09 -0500 By Paul Krugman Recessions are common; depressions are rare. As far as I can tell, there were only two eras in economic history that were widely described as "depressions" at the time: the years of deflation and instability that followed the Panic...