Archive for the ‘The Math Demands It’ Category
Who Benefits from Obamacare?
This map probably won’t surprise anyone here: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes two primary mechanisms for helping people afford health coverage. Starting in 2014, people with family incomes up to 138% of the poverty level ($31,809 for a family of four and $15,415 for a single person in 2012) will generally be eligible for [...]
February 15, 2012
· 
Kay · 
89 Comments
Posted in: The Math Demands It
The Cost Of The Payroll Tax Cut
Steve Benen is most likely correct when he notes the GOP “negotiators” in the Senate side of the payroll tax cut fight starting next month have no intention of extending the cut at all. Senators Crapo, Barrasso and especially Jon Kyl being involved means the Republicans are signaling that they are okay with destroying any [...]
December 31, 2011
· Zandar · 21 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, DC Press Corpse, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, IOKIYAR, Our Failed Media Experiment, The Math Demands It
Majority of Millionaires Want Their Doggone Taxes Raised
This just in… again. This must have pained the Wall Street Journal to report: Warren Buffett isn’t the only rich guy who wants to higher taxes on the rich. A new survey from Spectrem Group found that 68% of millionaires (those with investments of $1 million or more) support raising taxes on those with $1 [...]
October 27, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 64 Comments
Posted in: The Math Demands It, The Money Party, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
This is why we can’t have nice things any more …
David Dunlap has a lovely and very sad article over at the New York Times about the imminent destruction of I. M. Pei’s Terminal 6 at Kennedy International. Dunlap’s last few paragraphs perfectly sum up the stupidity of what is happening. I flew National a bit during the 70s, while Keith and I were busy [...]
October 7, 2011
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 43 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Assholes, The Math Demands It
Brought To You By The Letters “F” And “U”, Apparently
National Review’s Julie Gunlock takes great umbrage with the notion of the latest puppet character on Sesame Street: Lily, a little girl who sometimes goes hungry. Although Lily is just the latest politically charged plot to come out of Sesame Street, the problem with this storyline is that it is absolutely false. In fact, Lily’s [...]
October 7, 2011
· Zandar · 166 Comments
Posted in: Fables Of The Reconstruction, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, The Math Demands It
Detroit to Ohio
Labor Day: A crowd estimated at 12,000 people lined up along the waterfront to chant “Obama” and “Four more years. The 60 degree temperature with a brisk wind forced most to their keep jackets tightly zipped. Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO led off the Labor Day speeches, saying the union will work to make [...]
September 5, 2011
· Kay · 92 Comments
Posted in: Daydream Believers, Domestic Affairs, Education, Election 2011, Election 2012, Free Markets Solve Everything, Republican Venality, The Math Demands It
The Tea Party Dive
The Tea Party traces its roots to some millionaire Wall Street media star whining on the teevee. It is the bastard child of our Galtian overlords. And I guess they thought their creation was cute when it went around yelling that the Gub-a-mint needed to keep its hands off their Medicare. It seemed the Tea [...]
August 5, 2011
· Dennis G. · 93 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Glibertarianism, Open Thread, The Math Demands It
There is no future in England’s dreaming
The British are learning just how awesome Hooverism is right now too: A slowdown in Britain’s growth in the second quarter means that the economy is weaker than thought and has no chance of meeting its official growth target this year. The eagerly awaited preliminary GDP estimate for April to June showed the economy growing [...]
July 28, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 154 Comments
Posted in: The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts, The Math Demands It, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now, We Are All Mayans Now
Land Of 10,000 Furloughed
And so Minnesota’s government and a number of “non-critical” state services are shut down until further notice as of today. Visitors won’t be able to go to the state parks or the zoo, and travelers will find the highway rest stops shuttered. Road construction projects will cease, as will licensing for teachers and businesses. Many [...]
July 1, 2011
· Zandar · 74 Comments
Posted in: Decline and Fall, Fucked-up-edness, The Math Demands It
In the Integer-Based Community
I’ll give that unnamed Bush staffer credit.* It is possible to create an alternate reality—if only for a time—given the willing complicity of all those watching (and transmitting) the useful fantasies of the powerful. Just look at the success the Koch brothers’ subsidiary political arm, aka the GOP et al. have had in persuading so [...]
June 21, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 87 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Election 2012, Tax Policy, The Math Demands It
We Are Ohio, sure, but we’re not always happy about that
We had a petition drive here yesterday to put a repeal of Ohio’s SB 5 on the ballot in November. The gentlemen pictured ran the public event, which was held at the Steelworkers meeting hall. Here’s We Are Ohio on what we’re doing: Republican Legislators have passed Senate Bill 5 and Governor Kasich has signed [...]
June 10, 2011
· Kay · 29 Comments
Posted in: Election 2011, Enhanced Protest Techniques, The Math Demands It
Toledo
I went out to Toledo yesterday to see the people who came out to see the President. TOLEDO, Ohio — If the 2012 election is about the economy, as most people think, then President Obama’s visit on Friday to this struggling manufacturing city on the Ohio-Michigan border captured as well as any day could the [...]
June 4, 2011
· Kay · 94 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, DC Press Corpse, Decline and Fall, Good News For Conservatives, Our Failed Media Experiment, Overton Window, The Math Demands It
How can you not mock this latest bit of nonsense
After months of a laser like focus on capture and control of every uterus in America, the Republican Party decided to pretend to talk about jobs with a word salad garnished with pretty pictures. Nothing in it was new. In fact it was just a re-tossing of the same “tax-cuts solve everything” talking points that [...]
May 27, 2011
· Dennis G. · 58 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, The Math Demands It
Jimmy Carter invented public schools. No, really. He did.
I wrote about for-profit elementary and high schools in Ohio here. This is a follow-up. First, Gail Collins: This exciting new plan, which seemed to have been inserted into the state budget bill by a magical invisible hand, would also reduce oversight. It got a rave review in The Columbus Dispatch from an op-ed contributor [...]
May 19, 2011
· Kay · 64 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, The Math Demands It
I wonder who will win this fight…
Steve Benen has pointed out that the AARP has responded to Paul Ryan’s attack on the organization as being a “a left-leaning pressure group.” The GOP’s Austerity Czar had hurt feefees because the association representing over 40 million members did not like his galtian fantasy budget. And so Ryan attacked the AARP as corrupt group [...]
May 11, 2011
· Dennis G. · 158 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, The Math Demands It
