The Washington PostFebruary 26, 2013 Sequestering common sense By Katrina vanden Heuvel The media is going sequester 24-7. Anyone who hasn’t been paying attention to the across-the-board spending cuts about to hit this Friday is about to have little choice. The brouhaha about the austerity bomb is drowning out any…
Romney-Ryan’s promise of austerity for small businesses
With Congressman Paul Ryan on the ticket with Mitt Romney, it is clear that a Romney-Ryan administration would choose eliminating the federal deficit over creating jobs as their economic plan. So what does this mean for small businesses if $6 trillion was cut from federal spending over the next 10…
The upcoming crisis in non-defense spending cuts
On CNN’s “State of the Nation” yesterday, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham set aside his self-preservation tack to the political right to encourage bi-partisan cooperation. The issue was sequestration that will result in $600 billion in automatic cuts to the defense budget over the next 10 years because the Congressional supercommittee…