The biggest slices of the federal budget pie are the Social Security and Medicare programs that serve the growing share of the population made up of older Americans. Spending on these programs can be reduced by Congress, but both parties are reluctant to reduce their constituents’ retirement ...
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s not surprising. Roughly 60% of U.S. federal discretionary spending goes to the Pentagon, Homeland Security, nuclear weapons, and weapons shipments to places like Israel and Ukraine. President Biden once said: Show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you value. Looks like America values...
Construction spending is just the one-time activity to get the building and infrastructure in place. Canada comparison For Americans, the reshoring of US factory jobs is as American as apple pie, grits or the NFL (pick your metaphor). For Canadians, it’s another example of how far we’ve...
The “Bottom 50%” of households don’t show on the chart below because they have so little, and a big part of what little they have are durable goods, such as cars, a little home equity, and pension entitlements. They own nearly no stocks and ...
The U.S. Congress should allow the government to, as the White House says, "spend money on infrastructure to fill up the potholes" and attend to other worthy public services. More generally, a reasonable increase in public spending would go some way toward supporting demand, output and employ...
God, that makes even me, Fat Cracka, feel slow enough on the journey of life to wait for the pie that waits for me. They won’t listen. I don’t know how to make this any clearer than I already have more times than I can count. The same flock of centrist shitbirds who now ...
President Joe Biden is spending debate night here to celebrate his granddaughter’s birthday. He arrived in the Upper East Side shortly before 7 p.m. and was cheered by onlookers as he exited his vehicle. His granddaughter Finnegan, whose birthday was yesterday, greete...
A big component of Mr Biden’s rescue plan is $400bn of new spending to tackle coronavirus, including $160bn for testing and tracing, as well as a national vaccination programme that could help the administration meet its goal of delivering 100 inoculations within its first hundred days. Also...