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'...The nation’s $17 trillion debt remains a problem to be sensibly addressed and solved. But it can no longer be represented as a crisis requiring an immediate decision to deny Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits to Americans who need them. If you listen to President Obama’s critics, especially his Republican adversaries on Capitol Hill, you’d think the economy was wheezing its last gasps. But investors obviously disagree, since the Dow closed Monday at a record high — and has nearly doubled since Obama took office. Put simply, money talks.'

more from Eugene Robinson, at the Washington Post

#united states#debt#politics#eugene robison#economy#economics#social security#medicare#medicaid#health care#president obama#republicans#barack obama#dow
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...when Republicans engineer sharp cuts in unemployment benefits, block the expansion of Medicaid and seek deep cuts in food stamp funding—all of which they have, in fact, done—they may be disproportionately hurting Those People; but they are also inflicting a lot of harm on the struggling Northern white families they are supposedly going to mobilize. Which brings us back to why libertarian populism is...bunk. You could...argue that destroying the safety net is a libertarian act—maybe freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose. But populist it isn’t.

Paul Krugman, at the New York Times

#paul krugman#the new york times#republicans#unemployment#jobs#medicaid#food stamps#whiteness#libertarianism#populism#politics
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'Over 3,000 people turned out this week for the growing Moral Monday movement in North Carolina...'

...faith leaders are organizing weekly protests against the state’s sharply-conservative policies that would hurt the poor, women, minorities, and the environment. Among the crowd were 120 people who were willing to face arrest in order to protest policies like school vouchers, voter ID, the expiration of unemployment benefits, and the Republicans’ rejection of federal money to expand Medicaid, which leaves half a million North Carolinians without health insurance.

hear from the folks out there doing big things.

#morality#moral mondays#education#voters#unemployment#republicans#federal government#politics#medicaid#Health Care#north carolina#religion#faith#protests#activism
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I am an expatriate Kansan...Since moving away I have been asked to account for the assassination of Dr. George Tiller, the abolition of the Kansas Arts Commission, and the ongoing nastiness of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church. The long struggle over the place of evolution in the state education curriculum followed me into my undergraduate years. Recently in the news we have witnessed the political success of the conservative faction of the state Republican Party: a first step toward eliminating the income tax; the privatization of Medicaid; and the introduction of a package of restrictive, even cruel anti-abortion legislation. Meanwhile, the most damaging conservative activity—the gradual dissolution of the state government—has garnered little national attention. The unmaking of the state has accelerated in the two years since Governor Sam Brownback took office, and during this legislative session is being pursued with redoubled fervor. Kansas wasn’t always this way.

Ben Merriman

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#ben merriman#kansas#states#geroge tiller#fred phelps#evolution#education#politics#conservatism#taxes#medicaid#abortion#governors#governor sam brownback
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We're not going to balance the budget in 10 years because if you look at what Paul Ryan does to balance the budget it means...you have to voucherize Medicare, you have to slash deeply into programs like Medicaid...my goal is not to chase a balanced budget just for the sake of balance...If we’ve controlled spending and we’ve got a smart entitlement package, then potentially what you have is balance. But it’s not balance on the backs of, you know, the poor, the elderly, students who need student loans, families who’ve got disabled kids."

President Obama, this morning

#economy#politics#paul ryan#medicare#medicaid#poverty#seniors#students#education#families#barack obama#president obama#obama#disabled
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The Ryan budget, which will become the official G.O.P. budget just as soon as the Republican majority in the House gets a chance to vote on it, gives nice big tax breaks to the wealthy. At the same time, it would turn Medicare into a voucher system, gut Medicaid by turning it into a block grant to the states, give states the ability to kick people off food stamps and repeal most of health care reform. It would kill funding for high-speed rail, guaranteeing that the United States will never catch up to the rest of the world in public transportation. And it would cap Pell grants, guaranteeing that they will fall behind tuition inflation. The budget is not merely terrible policy, but also bears no resemblance to what Americans want—at least judging from their rejection of the G.O.P. presidential ticket last year as well as more recent public opinion surveys.

Andrew Rosenthal, at the New York Times

and more. and more. and more.

#paul ryan#politics#economy#gop#republicans#house of representatives#wealthy#medicare#medicaid#states#food stamps#poverty#railroad#trains#high-speed rail#transportation#education
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'...In February, after embarrassing himself by saying he was “not concerned about the very poor,” Mitt Romney explained that the government’s safety net would take care of them, and he promised to repair any holes in the net. That promise didn’t last very long. On Thursday, House Republicans approved, on a party-line vote, a disastrous new budget that would leave millions of struggling families desperate for food, shelter and health care — and Mr. Romney has embraced it...“It’s an excellent piece of work,” Mr. Romney said. (Rick Santorum said it didn’t cut enough.) The biggest of the cuts would be to Medicaid, the joint federal and state program that is already gasping for money in many states that put a low priority on health care for low-income people.'
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#mitt romney#politics#republicans#house of representatives#food#health care#rick santorum#medicaid
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