Bad things generally happen when corporate fascist take over government and eliminate democracy, and it is a fact of life many Michigan citizens have learned the hard way; by being poisoned.
Some people may errantly conclude that Republicans, as typical conservatives, are so set in their ways they are naturally unwilling to change, but although that is a very accurate conclusion, it is not the case when it comes to the nation's deficit.
As long as the wealthy continue benefitting from the President's economic recovery, Republicans will stay the austerity course that continues retarding growth despite one 4th quarter report that GDP ticked up to 3 percent.
it was fairly clear by the giddy-ass grin on Paul Ryan's face that Senator Murray likely did all the compromising to agree that an austerity budget defying sane economic comprehension.
Wealthy libertarians using austerity to create conditions driving high unemployment, poverty, anti-government discontent, and misplaced anger to further their own agenda.
Republicans will be killing 1 million more jobs in 2014, and a new report found that their austerity madness is doing immense long term damage to the US economy.
Rich people should talk more openly, more often. It would make a progressive agenda a whole lot more achievable.
Republicans however, being true conservatives, are pushing for more austerity in spite of the devastation it is causing in both the U.S. and Europe.
While Boston was on lockdown and under attack, Republicans were trying to invoke Simpson/Bowles again, which would have resulted in firing the government workers who were protecting our country.
For the past two years under Republican rule, America relinquished its leadership position to Europe and became a devotee of austerity economics and followed the Eurozone into economic contraction.
Republicans who are now worried sick about America's children's future, have already taken care to assure future generations will stay mired in poverty and ignorance.
Republicans in Congress and statehouses have made every attempt to create a permanent underclass living in poverty, and they are unfazed at the devastation they are creating for children
Republicans take on Nancy Pelosi and, to their peril, Hillary Clinton.
Republicans are threatening to hold the debt limit increase hostage and they can hardly wait to present their ransom demands to President Obama.
Paul Ryan is lying to justify inflicting more pain on the American people for the sheer joy of giving the richest 1% nearly 15% in tax cuts.
International Women's Day celebrated the advances women have made - despite the Republican Party's efforts to drag us back to the days when freedom was reserved for white men.
Koch brothers' front group, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), sent congratulations to Republicans and their supporters around the country for helping push the sequester cuts.
Republicans are congratulating themselves for allowing the dreaded sequester to take effect knowing full well that in the first year of a ten year plan, about a million Americans will lose their jobs.
It is time for Democrats to call out the absurd canard that taking money out of the economy helps the economy grow. There is a time to address debt, but it is not during an economic downturn.
Republicans and their punditry have finally gone so far off the rails to avoid any responsibility for the sequester that they are blatantly lying and revising the historical record of the past four years.
Republicans have revealed that the harm their sequester cuts were intended to cause is part of their plan that defines them as criminals, enemies of the state and the American people.
Americans not mesmerized by the GOP's buzzwords like "pro-growth" understand it was President Obama's stimulus that saved the economy and staunched massive job losses.
When the enemy is in the halls of Congress, and is openly calling for economic destruction to avoid revenue, it is safe to say Republicans have declared open war on America and its people.
One can say with confidence that when Republicans find an economic policy that fails, they are duty-bound to repeat it regardless the consequences.
Republicans are megalomaniacs who will continue punishing the people for re-electing President Obama to raise taxes on the wealthy by holding the economy hostage to enact austerity.
Budget negotiation drama is getting more intense as the fiscal cliff or 'austerity bomb' approaches. The stakes for the poor couldn't be higher
Romney lies to earn the right to repeat Europe's austerity mistakes and give tax cuts to the rich that will deny America's economic recovery and doom this country to wallow in global recession.
The Republican agenda of cutting food stamps, wages, Medicare, Medicaid, and breaking unions is not about reducing the deficit or balancing the budget, it is about funding tax cuts for the wealthy.
Romney and Walker each pushed austerity politics only to end up with abysmal job records, yet polls say gullible voters keep supporting them.
In what is being dubbed, hundreds of thousands of anti-austerity protesters in more than 30 countries have retaken public space to demand a sustainable economy that serves people over profit.
There's a funny thing about austerity measures. When adopted alone without a balanced approach to short-term and long-term economic stimuli, they don't work.
For the past year we have seen an unremitting campaign by the corporate masters of the right wing to try to con the American people into privatizing the U.S. Postal Service.
