The economic vision of the top three Republican Presidential candidates

[ProSense]

Romney’s Economic Plan Includes $6.6 Trillion Tax Cut For The Rich And Corporations

(T)he Cain plan amounts to a huge tax increase on most Americans, but a huge tax cut on the wealthy

Perry Promises Increased Drilling and Decreased Regulation



There is no debate. Republicans are basically pushing policies, some of them utterly silly, that would literally extend the failures of the last several decades.

If not for the massive protests occurring across the country, the media would simply continue pretending that there is actually a debate.

Then there are the House Republicans, led by Boehner and Cantor, who don't seem to give a damn about public opinion. Their posture seems to be that the 2010 elections gave them a mandate to push policies that harm the economy, environment, low- and middle-income Americans, seniors and women.

[mikekohr]

1. "The Definition of Insanity: Repeating the same thing over and over again, (graphs)

expecting a different result." Welcome to the Republican nuthouse.

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http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mHSyEv8vBt4/S6Zvl-nui8I/AAAAAAAAACQ/3j0wUSj78mk/s640/Job+growth+graph.jpg?

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cached at: http://bureaucountydems.blogspot.com/

[ProSense]

2. Excellent charts. n/t

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

5. Why don't they ever show these charts on televsion?

This makes it so easy to understand. These should be in ads all over the country.

[mikekohr]

6. I have them cached at my blog "Mike's Corner." Copy, paste, forward to everyone, frequently

link to blog: http://bureaucountydems.blogspot.com/

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. K & R

[ProSense]

4. Robert Reich: The Rise of the Regressive Right and the Reawakening of America

The Rise of the Regressive Right and the Reawakening of America

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Progressives believe in openness, equal opportunity, and tolerance. Progressives assume we’re all in it together: We all benefit from public investments in schools and health care and infrastructure. And we all do better with strong safety nets, reasonable constraints on Wall Street and big business, and a truly progressive tax system. Progressives worry when the rich and privileged become powerful enough to undermine democracy.

Regressives take the opposite positions.

Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and the other tribunes of today’s Republican right aren’t really conservatives. Their goal isn’t to conserve what we have. It’s to take us backwards.

They’d like to return to the 1920s — before Social Security, unemployment insurance, labor laws, the minimum wage, Medicare and Medicaid, worker safety laws, the Environmental Protection Act, the Glass-Steagall Act, the Securities and Exchange Act, and the Voting Rights Act.

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