PAY CLOSE ATTENTION SENIORS AND SOON-TO-BE SENIORS - Five Pictures of the Future in a Paul Ryan/Mitt Romney America - By 2022 their plan would cut Federal Medicaid funding by roughly one-third. The Urban Institute has estimated that states would drop between 14 million and 27 million people from Medicaid by 2021. Provider reimbursements would drop by roughly one-third.
Can you find the hypocrisy in this statement??? - Rep. Steve King: 'Keep your law off my BODY!!' - As leader in wanting to pass a law to 'own' a woman's uterus, he's got the balls to say this about Obamacare??????
Who Captured the Fed? - ...technocratic policy-making is just a myth. We have come full circle, and the Wall Street banks are calling the shots again.
In the Everglades, Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Industry's Mess - ...a new study shows that despite the fact that the preponderance of gunk feeding into the Everglades comes from agriculture, it is the taxpayers, not the industry, who fork over for clean up.
Republican Budget For Billionaires - The new Republican budget reflects current electoral reality: billionaires and corporations now finance candidates, and we get government of, by and for billionaires and corporations. This budget starts with $10 trillion in tax cuts -- mostly for the rich.
The Dumbest 'Bipartisan' Move Since Repealing Glass-Steagall - Here we go again. Once again the 'bipartisan' consensus in Washington, fueled by an intoxicating brew of conventional wisdom laced with campaign cash, has repealed some of those 'cumbersome regulations' that do nothing of value - nothing, that is, except prevent catastrophes. There will be celebrating on both sides of the aisle when the President signs this bill.
Komen in trouble, 'employee morale is in the toilet' - Two top executives at Susan G. Komen for the Cure have announced their resignation, amid reports that the breast cancer charity is struggling to raise money and repair its reputation after its decision to defund Planned Parenthood and subsequent reversal. A Komen insider told HuffPost that "employee morale is in the toilet". Nancy Brinker, founder, is "in complete meltdown".
If there are this many smart voters in this country, why are we in the mess we're in? - Americans Overwhelmingly Believe SCOTUS’ Health Care Decision Will Be Driven By Politics - 80 percent of independents, 74 percent of Republicans and 67 percent of Democrats believe that the Supreme Court will base its health care decision at least in part on politics, rather than solely considering the legal merits of the case.
State AGs: All The Banks Committed Major Crimes, But We’re Going To Settle Anyway - Remember folks, Gary Johnson along with Barack Obama said that “nobody committed any crimes.” This is what your Federal and State Governments sold you out over folks - it’s a litany of theft, fraud, deception and lies, and instead of prosecution and imprisonment what we have here is a tiny little fine that is just another cost of doing business that you, as the harmed (homeowners with mortgages) are forced customers of these enterprises, will simply wind up paying!
Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail - The bank has defrauded everyone from investors and insurers to homeowners and the unemployed. So why does the government keep bailing it out?
Study: Speculators To Blame For Skyrocketing Food Prices - The New England Complex Systems Institute released a study last week linking speculation in global commodity markets to rising food prices. The study indicates that spikes in food prices in 2008 and ’11 came largely as a result of investor speculation and increased ethanol conversion, in which corn is used for fuel rather than food.
J.P. Morgan Chase's Ugly Family Secrets Revealed - When [Linda Almonte] brought these concerns to her superiors, what do you think their response was? They told her and others to shut up and just sell the stuff anyway. ...when Linda refused to go along with the sale, she was fired.
Guy Who Rented All 94 Rooms of Aspen Hotel for Party Scores Awesome New Goldman Job - Jeffrey Verschleiser, a former Bear Stearns executive ...was instrumental in helping blow up that venerable firm. Verschleiser among other things was reportedly involved with an elaborate Wall Street version of a merchandise return scam, only instead of taking the proceeds from returned TVs and stereos, his unit was pocketing the cash from crap mortgages sold back to banks on behalf of investors. So this guy, who made the news both for his professional unscrupulousness and for his personal assholedom, is the guy that Goldman picks to head its global mortgage operation.
McCain 2008 Advisor Nicolle Wallace Says Game Change Was ‘True Enough To Make Me Squirm’ - The biggest political event that happened yesterday wasn’t a primary, but a movie on HBO about the 2008 campaign and John McCain‘s decision to make Sarah Palin his running mate. Nicolle Wallace, one of the ’08 campaign’s top advisors, was on This Week today, and she admitted that the movie was accurate enough to make her feel uncomfortable watching it.
Banks are using government loans to repay TARP - A new report from the Government Accountability Office ...shows that 40 percent of the 341 institutions that have exited TARP’s biggest single initiative ...simply refinanced their loans through a separate, $30 billion government program known as the Small Business Loan Fund.
A bailout for real estate speculators - “Landlords can qualify for up to four federally-subsidized loan workouts starting around May, as long as they rent out each house or have plans to fill them. The program pays banks to reduce monthly payments by cutting interest rates, stretching terms, and forgiving principal.”
FLASHBACK: Fox News On Gas Prices In 2008 - But back in the summer of 2008 [when Bush was President], when the average U.S. gasoline price hit a record high of $4.11, Fox said that "no President has the power to increase or to lower gas prices."
Santorum in '93: More Government Needed in Health Care - The 2012 candidate once argued it was "wrong" for the federal government not to be "proactive" in shaping the health care market and boasted his voting record was "in the middle."