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Bowles and Simpson React to the Conference Agreement | Moment of Truth
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Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Bowles and Simpson React to the Conference Agreement. The Fiscal Commission Co-Chairs released this statement on the budget conference agreement. These are the difficult challenges our leaders in Washington must eventually come to grips with in order to put the budget on a fiscally sustainable course and ensure a bright economic future for our children and our nation. With this agreement Congress will now have exhausted nearly all of the easy choices availa...
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Frequently Asked Questions | Moment of Truth
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Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. 1) Will putting the Fiscal Commission plan in place derail the economic recovery? Having a strategy for getting our national debt to a manageable level will send a signal to global credit markets that the U.S. is, and will continue to be, a good place to invest. In fact, the economic recovery could very well receive a boost from enactment of a credible deficit reduction plan. The main reason that revenues have never reached 21 percent of GDP is that when revenu...
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Simpson and Bowles: Budget Deal is Just a Start | Moment of Truth
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Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Simpson and Bowles: Budget Deal is Just a Start. The agreement will put in place a slightly more rational fiscal policy — by replacing a portion of the abrupt, mindless across-the-board cuts in discretionary spending resulting from sequestration with smarter and somewhat more permanent cuts, and with reforms to mandatory programs. The small reforms in this agreement do not address the real long-term drivers of our debt, including the growth of healthcare entitl...
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Stop the madness, start discussing long-term solutions to debt issues | Moment of Truth
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Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Stop the madness, start discussing long-term solutions to debt issues. By: Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson recently published this op-ed in The Hill encouraging Congress to enact a comprehensive debt deal. It is time for leaders to break the cycle of bouncing from crisis to crisis by taking three common-sense steps: Stop the madness, start talking and solve the problem. We suggest deliberations should start by identifying areas ...
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CNBC: Debt Default would be Catastrophic | Moment of Truth
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Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. CNBC: Debt Default would be Catastrophic. Erskine Bowles explains why lawmakers need to implement smart reforms in entitlement programs, and why it would be catastrophic if the government hit the debt ceiling. We need to get through these man-made crises and get to the real issues of reducing the nations debt, he said Wednesday on CNBCs Squawk Box. The Treasury has already started to use its last tools. To forcing a Treasury default, which cost the U.S....There...
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The murky world of politics (and other things) as seen from the Bog. Writing 101 – Radical Political Middle. This is an article I’ve had in mind for some time and I’m going to use the WordPress Writing 101 session to get at it! This is take 1. There will be more versions of the same idea until I … Continue reading →. June 2, 2014. Trump’s Needed Apologies – Part one of who knows? The Republicans Brought This on Themselves! President Obama’s ISIS Strategy – What I Heard – and Didn’t. March 1st, 2013.
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Congressional cooperation | Karl's Bog
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The murky world of politics (and other things) as seen from the Bog. Tag Archives: Congressional cooperation. Obamacare – Another Congressional Success Story. November 4, 2013. Congress takes a lot of abuse! Their popularity is at all time lows. Most Americans now claim they would vote even their own representatives out of office. They never cooperate with the other party! Well, maybe that claim isn’t quite … Continue reading →. Trump’s Needed Apologies – Part one of who knows? Start Fixing, Stop Fighting.
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Writing 101 – Radical Political Middle | Karl's Bog
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The murky world of politics (and other things) as seen from the Bog. Obamacare – Another Congressional Success Story. President Obama’s ISIS Strategy – My Hopes →. Writing 101 – Radical Political Middle. June 2, 2014. This is an article I’ve had in mind for some time and I’m going to use the WordPress Writing 101 session to get at it! This is take 1. There will be more versions of the same idea until I get it right. What’s the solution? Vote aganst outside money. Become the radical middle! You are commen...
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David M. Walker. Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress,. Member of the Board of Directors. Government Transformation Initiative,. Chairman of the Board of Directors. Institute of Medicine End of Life Committee,. Institute for Truth in Accounting,. International Performance Auditing Institute,. Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors. Market Core LLP,. Honorary Chairman and Senior Advisor. National Academy of Public Administration,. National Academy of Social Insurance,.
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Our message to nonprofits: Your mission is noble, and your intentions are honorable. But if you subscribed us to your organization's bulk email list without our permission, then you are sending us spam. The authors of this blog have received unsolicited bulk email. From the following nonprofit organizations:. Email service provider not specified). E (email service provider not specified). Art beCAUSE Breast Cancer Foundation. Email service provider not specified). The Blue Heron Gallery. In many cases, t...
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