When you receive your paycheck and look at the withholding for federal, state and sometimes city taxes, along with Social Security and Medicare, you probably don’t think you’re underpaying governments and want them to take more. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio believes that if you have played by what used to be called […]
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Are people truly one paycheck from disaster?
The partial government shutdown has forced some federal workers to move money around to pay for food and rent. No surprise there. What’s shocking is the many who don’t have the money to move. They have no financial cushion to cover even one month’s worth of ordinary expenses. Don’t they have any savings, any savings […]
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Sears, GE's decline provides hard lesson
WASHINGTON — General Electric and Sears have fallen on hard times, and that tells us a lot about U.S capitalism. Both were once great enterprises — symbols of American ingenuity and imagination. The temptation will be to blame their troubles on mismanagement. The real lesson is starker. It is that no business, no matter how […]
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Trump shouldn’t declare emergency
President Donald Trump is playing with the idea of declaring a national emergency to build a border fence despite congressional opposition. This would make Trump the second president in a row willing to cut Congress out of the legislative process if it doesn’t agree to his priorities on immigration, and is a very bad idea. […]
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Politicians: Do what is best for America
Despite advance billing that President Trump’s border wall speech would break news and contain new information, it was mostly familiar rhetoric: criminals and drugs, rapists and murderers are coming to America and the wall is the only way to stop them. The president named families who have lost loved ones at the hands of undocumented […]
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Democrats' stance on the 'wall' hypocritical
WASHINGTON — Barring some miraculous breakthrough, on Saturday the current government shutdown will become the longest in American history. But it has already hit another historic milestone: It is, by far and away, the stupidest government shutdown in American history. In 2019, the federal government will spend a whopping $4.407 trillion. Yet Congress and the […]
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It's time for Congress to curb the powers of the president
NEW YORK — Watching the struggle over funding for a border wall, I am struck by the way in which, in one sense, Donald Trump has already achieved success. He has been able to conjure up a crisis out of thin air, elevate this manufactured emergency to national attention, paralyze the government and perhaps even […]
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Right wing cranks up the hate machine
Haven’t we seen this movie before? Certainly, there is a sense of deja vu all over again as one watches the right wing hyperventilate over a certain freshman congresswoman from New York. The attacks on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been frequent and furious, but also petty, silly and (in the mental-health sense) hysterical. Just days ago, […]
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New Democrats show surprising lack of discipline
By Ed Rogers Special to The Washington Post Writing in The Washington Post recently, columnist Dana Milbank made the point: “It’s time for Democrats to be the grownups.” But on matters large and small, it appears that they cannot escape their own shallowness and they are stuck in early adolescence. We are only in the […]
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Questions to ask an active candidate
By Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post In 2016, Republicans foolishly talked themselves into dispensing with character or qualifications as a consideration for presidents. Since the election they’ve felt compelled to defend President Trump and his horrible words and actions, no matter how racist, cruel, dishonest, narrow-minded, stubborn, narcissistic, disloyal, thin-skinned or vulgar. If nothing else, […]