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ourfuture.org - 1/13/2009
Tell CNN: IOUSA Not OK, Demand Equal Time
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There is a growing consensus among economists that: Yet if you turned on CNN during the weekend of Jan. 10-11, you were told the opposite. That our budget is a “fiscal cancer, with catastrophic consequences.” That “large … social spending” can bring about an “economic downturn.” That Social ...

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Hullabaloo — ... CAF made note of the fact that CNN outsourced its news gathering function to propagandists this week-end and is asking people to take some action: ...

Progressive Breakfast: World According To TARP
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... 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 backer and star Pete Peterson for falsely attacking Social Security and Medicare. OurFuture.org launches letter-writing campaign: "Tell CNN: IOUSA Not OK, Demand Equal Time." ...

A Straightforward Progressive Strategy On the Stimulus Fight
Open Left - Front Page — ... how he defines "reform," conservatives - as evidenced by the hard-core media campaign by the right that started this weekend - are obviously trying to trap him into a debate over slashing the two most popular government programs in American history. Progressives have to lay down markers right now so as to take those kinds of ideas completely off the table. ...

Progressive Breakfast: Public Backs Public Investment
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... "More bipartisan establishment institutions [the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Committee for a Responsible Budget] join with Pete Peterson to give the Republicans and the Blue Dogs excuses to ensure that the government can't do what's necessary to stave off a depression ... if you think that this is about anything but destroying social security, think again." (Tell CNN: balance anti-investment propaganda with equal time for pro-investment views.) ...

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