How Budget Deficits Steal from Social Security

Years ago, we published an article called, “Who Stole Your Social Security and Why.” The point of the article, in those days, 2009, was...

Trump Cuts Medicare and Social Security in 2020 Budget.

If re-elected, President Donald Trump has budgeted to cut Medicare by $848 billion. He will cut Medicaid by $1.5 Trillion and cut $25 billion...

Say “No” to Tax Cuts for the Rich

by Joseph O'ShughnessyCall your Senator as soon as you have finished reading this, or before, if possible, and urge him or her...under pain of...

A Republican Defends the Counterfeit Trump Tax Plan

by Joseph O'ShaughnessyPeter Roskam, House of Representatives member from the 6th District of Illinois, was interviewed recently on public television about the new...

Trump Tax Cuts Versus Your Social Security and Medicare

Perhaps it is time for the big battle. Perhaps it is time to have an all-out war against the Titans.Trump and McConnell, the would...

Get Ready: They Are Coming for Social Security and Medicare.

Whom do you believe? Do you still believe Donald Trump? He wanted to take away Obamacare and not replace it. What do you think...

Don’t play the Trump Distraction Game. Focus on Congress.

We're fighting the wrong wars with Donald Trump in particular and with Republicans in general.It's not about refugees coming to America. Banning immigrants without...

Health Care Disaster Is Just the End of a Long, Long...

The Republican Senate, House, President Trump (sounds so ridiculous!) and the Billionaires have written you out of health care. And they will do more...cut...

How Republicans Tried to Kill Obamacare and Give Us the Cheap...

We have been mislead by Republicans about Obamacare. If health care is about the American people, then Obamacare is good and workable and economically sound. If health care is about making health insurance companies profitable, and not caring for the American people, then the Republican plan is better...but only for the health insurance industry.

Donald Trump Is No Populist.

by Joseph D. O'ShaughnessyI normally don't sign what we all call posts. I don't even refer to them as "posts." Rather, I call them...

The Trump Hits Keep Coming.

President-Elect Trump, who apparently thinks that he has already taken office, despite challenges in several very close, very suspicious states, continues to pick a...

The Sanders Revolution

The world is changing  again. Instead of a 40-something running for President, we have two 60 or 70-somethings. Maybe it takes that long to...

A Nightmare in November

Here is the real danger for 2016. We are at a tipping point. It is very likely that few Americans understand the calamitous potential...

Social Security Revisited.

On May 28, 2009, in this space, we published a well-researched article entitled, “Who Stole Your Social Security and Why?” The idea was to...

Hedge Fund Managers Are Coming for Your State Pension Funds.

One of the most serious and largest scams now being perpetrated by the Republican Party on the American public is the “unfunded liability” state...