Get ready for S&P to downgrade our credit rating even further. As if to prove the credit raters' contention that our political system lacks the common sense to come up with solutions, The Hill's Bob Cusack says that South Dakota…
Posts tagged as “national debt”
The Republican-controlled House and the Democrat-controlled Senate have both passed debt-ceiling/budget-reduction plans that the other chamber has rejected. Go ahead, read them both. Then try telling me that the federal budget is just like a family budget. We cannot craft…
Robert Reich laments that the Republicans have effectively used a manufactured debt crisis to divert everyone's attention from the real problem they don't want to solve: the jobs crisis: If and when the economy begins to grow faster &ndash if…
When South Dakota conservative activist Barb Lindberg and her Black Hills pals failed to get enough signatures to refer two state laws related to health insurance reform on the ballot, I ascribed it to a pragmatic decision by most rightwingers…