This is an apt analogy for our nation’s current fiscal crisis. Because of an accounting gimmick where governments pretend future liabilities don’t exist and, therefore, don’t account for them, most Americans don’t know how big the problem really is. The amount typically reported, nearly $16 trillion, is actually only the surface of our debt. According […]
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That’s a lot of people zooing it
The new record, despite those triple-digit temps, is 989,622. (For those not into math, that’s a full 6,901 more.) According to the city institution, it helped that its first baby elephant, Malee, celebrated her first birthday this past spring, not to mention the arrival of the male Asian elephant named Rex. Perhaps we can rally […]
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‘Fiscal folly’
Twenty-two million jobs were created during that time under reasonable fiscal policies that did not require a single increase in the national debt ceiling while also balancing the budget and actually resulting in a budgetary surplus. The Clinton fiscal policies, if left in place, would have eliminated the national debt in 2009. The Bush administration […]
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Workers under attack
Check that. For sure, the GOP has overreached again on typical wedge issues, such as “sanctity of life” involving medical research, evolution science and anti-illegal immigration, but the real overreach might just be its full fiscal assault on the middle class. It’s happening here and across the country as Republican-dominated legislatures work to cut state […]
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Point: ‘A new fiscal reality’
Funding to state agencies has been cut by more than $500 million, which is having a corrosive effect on our ability to invest in our future and promote the education, health, safety and economic well-being of Oklahomans. We have laid off teachers and increased class sizes, cut services to low-income seniors, eliminated preventive programs serving […]