Mark Maynard | entitlements

The subject of poverty finally makes its way into the presidential campaign

By Mark | September 15, 2012

As I’ve mentioned before, I was born in Lexington, Kentucky, the day before Robert Kennedy arrived there to begin his tour of Appalachia. I don’t know that it explains why, over the course of my life, I’ve been so drawn to Kennedy, but it’s an odd coincidence, I think, and I find it hard to […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Appalachia, assassination, Baptists, Bruce D. Meyer, budget cuts, Bush tax cuts, Christian, Christianity, Conference of Catholic Bishops, faith based initiative, homelessness, hunger, hunger in America, James X. Sullivan, Jesus, John Edwards, Kairos Prison Ministry International, Kentucky, Lexington, Martin Luther King, Matthew Yglesias, MLK, National Association of Evangelicals, Obama, poverty, poverty tour, Presidential politics, RFK, Robert Kennedy, Romney, social safety net, tax the rich, The Circle of Protection, wealth inequality, welfare | 14 Comments

Deficit Supper Committee fails due to Republican refusal to roll back Bush tax beaks

By Mark | November 21, 2011

I went to the gym after work this evening and watched coverage of today’s admission of failure by the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. I found myself getting incredibly pissed off, to the point of inadvertently blurting out “asshole” a couple of times, and flipping up my middle finger at the television set in […]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bush tax cuts, class warfare, deficit, Deficit Reduction Super Committee, endgame, Eric Cantor, grand bargain, Grover Norquist, Joe Biden, John Boehner, Medicare, Mitt Romney, Obama, Paul Ryan, Russ Feingold, social security, tax the rich, taxation, the plight of the overtaxed rich, theology of tax cuts, treason | 8 Comments

The Republicans are “Going to hurt some people,” and they know it

By Mark | July 26, 2011

We all know that the gap between rich and poor in America is growing wider, right? Well, it looks like it might get even worse, if the Democrats aren’t able to turn the debt ceiling debate around. According to reports out today, the new plan being championed by Speaker of the House John Boehner would […]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Affordable Care Act, Allen West, Ben Affleck, Center on Budget and Policy Prioritie, class warfare, debt ceiling, empathy, empathy fail, Eric Cantor, House Budget Committee, John Boehner, Kevin McCarthy, Medicare, Paul Ryan, poverty, race and poverty, Robert Greenstein, social security, tax the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, The Town | 56 Comments

The time to revolt draws near, my friends….

By Mark | July 10, 2011

On Friday, it was announced that the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to support a $649 billion defense spending bill. According to the Associated Press, this represents a $17 billion increase over last year’s appropriation. This, as the AP article points out, is particularly noteworthy, given that drastic government cuts are being demanded elsewhere. […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2012 federal budget, A National Strategic Narrative, Bill Maher, budget, budget cuts, budget deficit, Bush tax cuts, class warfare, compromise, debt ceiling, defense spending, Ezra Klein, grand bargain, Joint Economic Committee, Mark Mykleby, Medicaid, Medicare, military industrial complex, military spending, Mitch McConnell, Mr. Y, Obama, Paul Revere, priorities, Robert Pear, the growing gap between rich and poor, the plight of the overtaxed rich, theology of tax cuts, unemployment, Wayne Porter | 52 Comments

Introducing the People’s Budget

By Mark | April 11, 2011

As you no doubt know, President Obama and congressional leaders were able to avert a government shutdown by reaching an agreement on the 2011 budget late Friday night. While we don’t yet know all the facts, it looks as though the Republicans were not successful in their attempts to defund public broadcasting, and stop the […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Politics | Also tagged Amy Goodman, budget cuts, budget deficit, Bush tax cuts, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Democracy Now, EPA, estate tax, global climate change, greenhouse gas, Jeffrey Sachs, lobbyists, Medicaid, Medicare, military spending, Millennium Promise Alliance, NPR, Obama, Paul Ryan, PBS, People’s Budget, public broadcasting, social security, tax loopholes, tax the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, the plight of the overtaxed rich | 25 Comments

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