Paul Ryan Doubles Down on “You’re-On-Your-Own” Healthcare
Here we go again. Remember Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan and his budget plan that would demolish Medicare under the guise of saving it? (Many of the people in his district sure do.) This week, in a speech...
View ArticleOut of Touch: Ryan’s “Class Warfare” Speech
Update your dictionaries, everyone! Proposing modest future tax increases on some of the money earned by a tiny minority of taxpayers in order to protect hundreds of thousands of jobs is now defined as...
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Ryancare, Rebooted
This week Wisconsin’s Rep. Paul Ryan is at it again, once more offering a proposal that would replace Medicare. This time he’s joined by Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat. To say this proposal is...
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Paul Ryan’s Bad-Deal Budget
To help end the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt proposed “the New Deal.” Now Rep. Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican who chairs the House Budget Committee, has a different idea: call it “the...
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Pro-Working Family Candidate Unseats Entrenched Incumbent in Milwaukee
Source: facebook.com via Working America on Pinterest The big news on the cable channels last night was the continuing battle for the Republican presidential nomination. But down the ballot in...
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Happy Birthday, Medicare!
It was 47 years Ago today that President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the two bills that created Medicare and Medicaid, guaranteeing health care coverage to retirees and people in poverty. The new...
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What Does Paul Ryan Believe?
We’ve written a lot about Rep. Paul Ryan in this space, well before this weekend’s announcement that Mitt Romney would select him as the vice presidential nominee. The reason we spend so much time on...
View ArticleThe Facts Behind Romney and Ryan’s Medicare Lies
It took approximately five minutes after the announcement of Paul Ryan as the Republican running mate for the spin to begin. Anxious to pre-empt a conversation about Ryan’s plan to end the guarantee of...
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Monday Night Football Disaster in Seattle Brings More Calls to End NFL...
Reposted from the AFL-CIO NOW Blog If you were building a bridge, would you hire a work crew with a few hours of metal shop on their résumés, or trained and certified Ironworkers? Would you go into...
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9 Reasons Why We’re Giving a ‘Thumbs Down’ to the Ryan Budget
House Republican leaders passed Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) budget this week by a vote of 219 to 205, with no Democrats voting in favor. The Ryan budget is chock full of so many terrible ideas that it’s...
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