Good budgetary policy is hard to put into practice
By Karl Reiner It is an accepted economic principle that governments can run budget deficits to combat recessions. The resulting debt is then paid down by budget surpluses when the situation improves....
View ArticleInsurers hiding the benefits of ‘ObamaCare’
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: One thing I have found missing in the absolutely craptacular reporting of the past week about "ObamaCare Sticker Shock," particulary from the AP (All Propaganda), is the failure...
View ArticleCongress makes the plight of the working poor worse
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Congress still has not passed a "farm bill" with funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aka food stamps. The expiration of the 2009 federal stimulus on...
View ArticleCincinnati rejection of pension initiative foreshadows Arizona pension...
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Earlier this year I told you about the Virginia-based ballot initiative activist Paul Jacob, and his Liberty Initiative Fund that was behind the City of Tucson public employee...
View ArticleCheck out thehealthsherpa.com – techies solve healthcare.gov problems
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: CBS Evening News reported on Friday night, S.F. programmers build alternative to HealthCare.gov: [T]three of them have created their own website that addresses some of the most...
View ArticleEzra Klein: President Obama should not apologize
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: All this faux outrage from the conservative media entertainment complex and Tea-Publican politicians over insurance cancellation notices is a disgusting spectacle to behold....
View ArticleQuestions for Martha McSally: Do you support the automatic GOP Sequester...
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: In this new series, "Questions for Martha McSally," we pose questions to the McSally campaign about her positions on current hot topics -- I am not going to give her a free pass...
View ArticleThe 39 Squishes
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: My apologies to Alfred Hitchcock for the wordplay on his brilliant adaption of "The 39 Steps." No apologies are owed, however, to the 39 Democratic "squishes" in the House who...
View ArticleHey, hysterical media villagers! These governors say ‘ObamaCare’ is working
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Remember when the gatekeepers of the corporate media admitted their complicity in the Whitewater conservative scandal mongering of the 1990s, and promised that it wouldn't...
View Article(Update) Hey, hysterical media villagers! ‘ObamaCare’ is working where the...
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: In all the media hysteria over the rollout of "ObamaCare," the feckless media villagers always leave out three predicate facts: Chief Justice John Roberts created the Medicaid...
View ArticleThe one group denied health care in Arizona: poor children
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Arizona's Tea-Publican controlled legislature is unique: it is the only legislature heartless enough to deny health care coverage to poor children eligible for the S-CHIP...
View ArticleThe TanMan’s PR stunt does not go as planned
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The TanMan, Weeper of The House John Boehner, decided to engage in a PR stunt on Thursday attacking problems with the federal "ObamaCare" Marketplace web site, because media...
View ArticleBalancing the Budget on the Backs of Soldiers
Posted by Bob Lord Will the effort to trim the military budget devolve into another screwing of the many to benefit the few? Sunday's NY Times lead editorial, Putting Military Pay on the Table, opened...
View ArticleBudget Deal: The long-term unemployed are abandoned by Congress
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The GOP's alleged boy genius, Ayn Rand fanboy Paul Ryan (R-WI), or as Charles Pierce at Esquire calls him, "the zombie-eyed granny-starver from Wisconsin," is being hailed by...
View ArticleThe Tea-Publican economic terrorist are already plotting the next debt...
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Beltway media villagers were tripping all over themselves on Sunday to lavish praise on the GOP's alleged boy genius, Ayn Rand fanboy Paul Ryan (R-WI), for his "pragmatic"...
View ArticleYes, the GOP is responsible for denying millions of Americans access to...
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Rush Limbaugh of the Republic, GOPropagandist hack Doug MacEachern, has his panties all in a bunch about an AP (All Propaganda) report in which the reporter, David Lieb,...
View ArticleLeave Syria to the Syrians, it’s none of our business
The United States, the most bellicose nation on Earth, is once again rattling its rockets at a foe. Will the American people, as they have done so placidly in the past, just shrug their shoulders and...
View ArticleSunnyside board recalls are petty, petulant and pointless
If all goes according to plan, next March four of five Sunnyside School Board members could be facing one or more challengers in four separate recall elections as part of a colossally stupid struggle...
View ArticleDon’t let the government define who’s a journalist
Journalists like to use the old maxim “be careful what you wish for, you might get it” to caution politicos and others about the unintended consequences of some action they’re advocating for. Well,...
View ArticleUSFS needs to quit delaying and make a decision about Rosemont
The announcement this week that the U.S. Forest Service will delay its permitting decision on the proposed Rosemont copper mine in the eastern reaches of the Santa Rita Mountain foothills until next...
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