An article in the New York Times relates the tough times faced by many New York cities trying to cope with budget deficits caused in
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Managing the deficit is not on anyone’s agenda
Hundreds of millions in savings from winding down the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and we immediately find new ways to spend the money, not reduce
Threatening politicians if they cut Medicare, it’s not only the elite who influence for self interest at our collective peril. What would you do to rein in Medicare costs?
Twenty-six year old history majors are protesting on Wall Street, the influence of the wealthy is decried, lobbyists are bedeviled and yet when a politician
See where Medicare costs are headed and what it means for federal deficits
The following is from the website of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). It very succinctly states the problem that is facing our government. The
