A reader emailed me this video, and it’s definitely worth watching: (I really appreciate the emails and tips I’ve been getting lately. Keep ’em coming. Email me here, Twitter me here.) Also from the inbox: this PolitFact report is worth a read. Even though Walker is playing dirty tricks, it’s important to keep facts straight. …
A Piechart’s Worth a Thousand Words
Alex Knapp illustrates the distribution of wealth in this country with a handy piechart: Alex notes that, “As you can see, this is why the wealthy in this country pay most of the taxes — they have most of the money, by a staggering amount.” More charts and numbers here. Good thing the Tea Partiers …
The Long Con
The financial collapse of 2008 was caused by reckless economic elites who were well-connected enough to take risks and not suffer consequences for them. This led directly to a $900 billion dollar decrease in the value of public pension funds (not to mention the depletion of privately held 401k’s and other middle-class sources of retirement savings). …
Yes, cutting spending will hurt people
Ezra Klein sums up the anti-union proposal put forth by Wisconsin’s Governor: The best way to understand Walker’s proposal is as a multi-part attack on the state’s labor unions. In part one, their ability to bargain benefits for their members is reduced. In part two, their ability to collect dues, and thus spend money organizing …
Go left young man
I’m very glad about the reception of my last few posts here and at The League, but there seems to be some persisting misconception of the direction of my politics. Let me clear the air.
Numbers don’t lie, people lie
Paul Ryan told NPR’s “All Things Considered” that the Obama budget included $8.7 trillion dollars in new spending. Jamelle Bouie shows how Ryan – the fiscal darling of the right – is cooking the books to come up with this startling figure. That Ryan is considered a serious voice of fiscal conservatism on the right …
The Death and Life of the Great American School System (part one)
All the bad crazy out of Wisconsin lately lines up really well with the book I’m reading at the moment, The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch. Ravitch was for a long time an enthusiastic supporter of the choice and accountability movement in education reform. Her book is a …
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