The Obama plan would cut the amount of money going to Social Security and slash Medicare benefits. The Rebuild the American Dream Framework from the Congressional Progressive Caucus, however, would create jobs without sacrificing Medicare or Social Security.

Joe Heck’s political career has been funded by corporations that concentrate wealth in the hands of their top executives instead of creating more jobs… and now, Heck is working to give those corporations, and their fat cat executives, special permanent tax breaks. Heck has his job in Congress, and his financial elite friends are raking in the cash. Keeping that dirty arrangement going seems to be the only jobs plan Heck is willing to consider.

Tom McClintock has taken a quarter of a million dollars from the real estate industry, in a time when one third of the houses on the market are in foreclosure. That questionable source of McClintock’s campaign finance, even taken alone, suggests that Ben Emery’s critique may be right on the money.

“I am committed to working with my colleagues to restrain spending,” says U.S. Representative Michael Conaway, from the 11th congressional district of Texas. What kind of spending does Conaway want to restrain? Michael Conaway wants to restrain spending on Medicare, the program that provides medicine to America’s senior citizens. In fact, Conaway voted to eliminate [...]

Representative Barbara Lee and the Out of Poverty Caucus sent a letter to Barack Obama yesterday, warning him not to go ahead with his plan to cut Medicaid and Medicare.

Representative Duncan is arguing that taxes for millionaires and billionaires must not be increased, and that Medicare services to Americans must be cut instead. When Duncan calls the federal government wasteful, he’s saying that Medicare is wasteful. Actually, Medicare operates much more efficiently than private medical insurance does.

Senator Bernard Sanders is challenging Barack Obama not to cave in to the Republicans’ budget demands, as he has caved in to them so often in the past.

Ted Deutch is right that it’s unjust for millionaires and billionaires to get big tax breaks while programs to feed senior citizens are cut. However, Deutch would have been more honest if, instead of simply blaming Republicans for this injustice, he acknowledged his own role in creating that economic injustice.

I get a little bit tired of being lectured about deficit reduction and how significant a problem our deficit is by many folks who voted for legislation time after time after time over the last ten years that in fact have caused the deficit crisis that we’re in right now.

Progressive protests opposing Republicans’ imbalanced fiscal policy are larger than Tea Party protests were in 2009.