Deficit Peacocks – Delaware Liberal

I’ll Just Drop This Here

By pandora April 17, 20153 Comments

On Thursday, the House voted to repeal the estate tax which would... increase the deficit by $269 billion over a decade.

What We Have Here Is A Failure of Deficit Hawkery

By cassandra_m February 10, 20136 Comments

Did anyone notice this article on Friday -- where Senator Carper is committing to working for continued funding of the deepening dredge of the Delaware while the US Government is getting ready (prioritizing projects) for the cutbacks required by the sequester. And can I remind you that Senator Carper voted FOR said sequester?

In Which We Find That John Carney Still Doesn’t Get It

By cassandra_m November 17, 20119 Comments

There are still 14 million people unemployed in America and today we find that John Carney is still working on stuff that creates no jobs:

A Note To John Carney — 14 Million Unemployed Are More Important Than the Deficit

By cassandra_m November 6, 20114 Comments

Since Representative Carney is using his time in Congress to sign bi-partisan letters to the Deficit Supercommittee to Go Big in cutting the deficit, I thought I'd use my platform here to remind him of what the genuine crisis is right now.

On Deficits and Debts; or Don’t Believe the Entitlements Hype

By cassandra_m May 22, 20114 Comments

The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities continues its yeoman work on documenting where the federal Government's deficits AND Debts come from. Even though most of the readers here likely get this story, it has yet to make much of a dent in the media narrative, which continues to flog the business about entitlement spending being the thing that is running our fiscal futures off of the rails.

Over The Cliff

By Unstable Isotope March 4, 20113 Comments

A new poll shows that the Republican deficit solutions are very unpopular with the American public. The most popular solutions are raising taxes on millionaires, ending earmarks and cutting unnecessary defense programs. Cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are the least popular solutions, supported by 25% or less of the public.