Tag Archives: Washington DC

Associated Press: Democratic Governors Push for Minimum Wage Hike

Source:The New Democrat  I’m all in favor of increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour; actually I would even go up to 12.00 dollars an hour over a 5-year period and even index the minimum wage for inflation so … Continue reading

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Russia Today: Thom Hartmann & Tim Cavanaugh: When Conservatives Embraced Big Government

Source:The New Democrat  What Thom Hartmann doesn’t mention is that a lot of those Federal jobs were created in the Reagan Administration in the U.S. Department of Defense and a large number in the private defense industry and most of … Continue reading

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New America Foundation: Justin King: Senator Ron Wyden Wants Children’s Savings Accounts

Source:The New Democrat  I somewhat covered this last week with a blog on retirement and unemployment accounts for people so they can save for retirement and not have to burn those accounts when they are unemployed, especially for long periods … Continue reading

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Slate Magazine: Tanner Colby: Affirmative Action: It’s Time For Leftists to Admit it Isn’t Working

Source:The New Democrat  As a liberal I believe in the notions of equal opportunity and justice for all. Without those two concepts liberalism simply doesn’t mean a hell of a lot and it would just be a class philosophy. Taking … Continue reading

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Talking Points Memo: Andrea Mitchell Reports- RNC Chairman Reince Priebus: ‘Everything in in Play For 2016’

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports: RNC Chairman Reince Priebus: Everything is in Play For 2016 – YouTube. Source:The New Democrat  Hillary Clinton is the clear 2016 frontrunner for president not just to win the Democratic nomination for president but to be … Continue reading

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The Atlantic: Molly Ball: ‘No, Progressives Don’t Control The Democratic Party’

Source:The New Democrat  To comment on the column in The Atlantic from Molly Ball. Actually Liberals do control the Democratic Party and this goes to the fact of why labels are not only important, but more importantly that people who … Continue reading

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The American Conservative: James Antle: ‘Five Ways Reagan Nostalgia Misleads Conservatives’

Source:The American Conservative– Ronald W. Reagan (Republican, California) 40th President of the United States (1981-89) Source:The New Democrat “This week marks Ronald Reagan’s 103rd birthday. Non-conservatives often mock the right’s nostalgia for the fortieth president, but the enthusiasm is as … Continue reading

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The New America Foundation: Elliot Schreur: Asset Building, President Obama’s Myra Program

Source:The New Democrat  When President Obama announced his MyRa program and expanding retirement savings in the State of the Union last week, he was talking about encouraging people to save for retirement. Which is something that we should be doing … Continue reading

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Liberty Pen: Walter E. Williams: The Many Welfare State Beneficiaries

. Source:The New Democrat  It depends on how you define welfare and who it is supposed to be for. That is who should benefit from welfare and those programs. But generally speaking Americans probably view welfare as public assistance for … Continue reading

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National Journal: Peter Beinart: The End of American Exceptionalism?

Source:The New Democrat  American exceptionalism is an interesting difficult thing to talk about because it is hard to define. And the fact that exceptional is by itself neither good or bad, it is just different. You could have an exceptionally … Continue reading

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