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Reponse to IOUSA
TPMCafe — ... should be viewed as part of a larger effort to dismantle Social Security and Medicare, the country's core safety net programs. The reality is that our budget is essentially fine, it is our health care system that is out of control. But fixing health care would require going after the drug companies, the insurance companies, and highly paid medical specialists. But those folks are all powerful, so the IOUSA crew went after old people instead. You can get CEPR's movie review here.

Dean Baker: IOUSA: Anti-Social Security Propaganda Flick
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... should be viewed as part of a larger effort to dismantle Social Security and Medicare, the country's core safety net programs. The reality is that our budget is essentially fine, it is our health care system that is out of control. But fixing health care would require going after the drug companies, the insurance companies, and highly paid medical specialists. But those folks are all powerful, so the IOUSA crew went after old people instead. You can get CEPR's movie review here. ...

links for 2008-10-23
Oliver Willis — ... Sarah Palin's new initiative Lawn jockeys and Obama signs America is mental IOUSA Not OK Think We’ve Seen the Last of ESPN.com and Peter King Protecting and Coddling ...

Opening the Day: Economic Gloom Deepens, Palin's Expensive Wardrobe
Open Left - Front Page — ... and their faith', on Fox News.  I'm sure the outrage-o-meter will begin any.  Second.  Now. I'm on a podcast on Horse's Ass with David Goldstein.  If you want to hear an hour of Stoller and co, go for it. Lovely. Here's a video warning about climate change in 1958 that is dead-on accurate.  Wow. McCain has no ground game.  At all. CEPR takes on IOUSA.  Lots of letters, probably the most important item in Opening the Day. Job ...

Progressive Breakfast: World According To TARP
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... documentary "I.O.U.S.A" without challenge: "It is an amazing piece of propaganda, which, if it isn't designed to destroy any chance of enacting a necessary stimulus, will persuade more than a few Americans that the biggest problem we face at this moment is long term debt caused by entitlements -- and nothing short of massive spending cuts can save us ... It couldn't be more in keeping with the post-partisan, non-ideological zeitgeist. Except it's ideological to the core." CEPR offers the point-by-point takedown of I.O.U.S.A. Dean Baker criticizes movie ...

Bill Scher: Waking Up The "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour" (VIDEO)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... . Yet the Tour refuses to follow the facts and adjust it's views. (CEPR delivered a definitive take-down of the documentary of the Tour, "I.O.U.S.A.") ...

The LiberalOasis Radio Show: Employee Free Choice Edition
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... . Yet the Tour refuses to follow the facts and adjust it's views. (CEPR delivered a definitive take-down of the documentary of the Tour, "I.O.U.S.A.") ...