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The Small Brains and Big Money Behind the GOP/Libertarians

Christopher Walton on 06/05/2013

Perhaps we should be looking at Obama’s suggestion to tear apart Social Security and Medicare from a different angle. This angle is where we shouldn’t even be talking about touching these two critical benefits! Neither affects our current budget deficit. Neither of these two benefits affects our future deficits for at least ten to twenty [...]

Can You Spell CPI?

Christopher Walton on 05/23/2013

The Progressives have it right. Not only can they spell C-P-I, but they actually know what it is. Do you? If you are a worker, mortgage holder, college student, retiree or soon to be retiree you’d better learn all that you can about the Consumer Price Index and the Chained CPI debate. Vermont U.S. Senator [...]