“Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.” ChildrenSocialSecurityPolicyOur ChildrenDecadesThanksBudgetsSocial SecurityStolenDeficitMedicareBudget Deficit Author:Steven Rattner
“For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America's defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security.” AmericaTurnsSocialProcessCuttingSecurityVictoryGayTaxesMarriedElectionDecadesTerroristWealthyDivisionSocial SecurityDefendersMandatesTax CutsPosingEpitomeDeregulation Author:Paul Krugman
“Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the most dynamic and inventive, in both senses of the word.” Has BeensTwoLastsSocialDecadesSensesBranchesHistorianPirateSocial History Book:The Pirate Wars Source: The Pirate Wars
“These economic, social, cultural and educational causes of opportunity inequality are complex. And they will not be solved by continuing with the same stale Washington ideas. Five decades and trillions of dollars after President Johnson waged his War on Poverty, the results of this big-government approach are in.” IdeasWarBigsGovernmentOpportunitySocialCausesPresidentResultsPovertyFiveEconomicApproachDollarsComplexesEducationalDecadesInequalityContinuingJohnsonStaleBig GovernmentWar On PovertyPresident Johnson Author:Marco Rubio