Category: Federal Budget

Breaking News: Big Bird On Ledge Atop 123 Sesame Street, Seeks Meeting With Mitt Romney 0

Breaking News: Big Bird On Ledge Atop 123 Sesame Street, Seeks Meeting With Mitt Romney

Breaking. For immediate release. Saturday, October 6, 2012, 10:30 a.m., Sesame Street, New York City, New York. We have just learned that at sunrise this morning the beloved Sesame Street star Big Bird climbed...

9-11, 11 Years Later: Our Fighting Men & Women, Just Plain Old “Employees” To Romney & Ryan 0

9-11, 11 Years Later: Our Fighting Men & Women, Just Plain Old “Employees” To Romney & Ryan

Perhaps the best day to consider this . . . “No nominee for president should ever fail in the midst of a war to pay tribute to our troops overseas in his acceptance speech....

A New Obama Campaign Poster Might Help Point Up Romney/Ryan’s Bizarre Budget Arithmetic 0

A New Obama Campaign Poster Might Help Point Up Romney/Ryan’s Bizarre Budget Arithmetic

In light of Bill Clinton’s speech last night, and his blunt criticism of GOP budget arithmetic, perhaps another poster ought be added to President Obama’s campaign arsenal. Here’s a thought . . .  ...

Dems Convention: “Prime Minister” Bill Clinton Teaches Paul Ryan Some Budget ‘Rithmetic 0

Dems Convention: “Prime Minister” Bill Clinton Teaches Paul Ryan Some Budget ‘Rithmetic

Former President – presently “Prime Minister” – Bill Clinton rode into the convention hall last night gunning for not merely the Romney/Ryan ticket, but for the entire 21st century version of the GOP, that...

Charles Dickens: Happy 200th Birthday! What Would “Oliver Twist” Read Like Today . . .? 0

Charles Dickens: Happy 200th Birthday! What Would “Oliver Twist” Read Like Today . . .?

Charles Dickens: Happy 200th Birthday! What Would “Oliver Twist” Read Like Today . . .?

Introducing “The Fat-Cat Quotient.” How Many Poor Families Can Mitt Romney Afford On His 2011 Speaking Fee Income Alone? 1

Introducing “The Fat-Cat Quotient.” How Many Poor Families Can Mitt Romney Afford On His 2011 Speaking Fee Income Alone?

Mitt’s definitely winning the class war.  Based on the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) 2011 Poverty Guidelines, last year, for example, he could have financed as many as 34 families of eight with his 2011 speaking fees income...

“Donald Twist – A Billionaire Boy’s Progress” – Newest Charles Dickens Book 0

“Donald Twist – A Billionaire Boy’s Progress” – Newest Charles Dickens Book

Yesterday, I wrote about a provision in the House version of HR 3630, the payroll tax holiday and unemployment insurance extension proposal now battling it out with the Senate version of the bill.  The...

Extending The 2011 Payroll Tax Cut? How To Make The GOP Cry Uncle. 0

Extending The 2011 Payroll Tax Cut? How To Make The GOP Cry Uncle.

Senator John Kyl (R-AZ), who adamantly opposes tax hikes, has found one he really wants to help inflate. How?  By not extending the 2011 payroll tax holiday, he – and the GOP – would  raise the...

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