SUNDAY
Quote of the Day
October 20, 2013
'From a budget perspective, that means ending and
reversing the misguided focus on the deficit. It was
never wise or necessary to cut the deficit while the
economy remained weak. The political imperative to
do so, driven by Republicans and clumsily adopted
by Democrats, has had devastating results. Over the
past three years, the depth and pace of federal
spending cuts have reduced growth by about 0.7
percentage point, equivalent to over $300 billion in
lost output and roughly 2 million fewer jobs than
would otherwise have been the case. That so-called
fiscal drag has been the single biggest weight on
economic growth.
'To the extent that deficit reduction is politically
unavoidable, Mr. Obama and the Democrats should
insist that it come mainly from higher taxes rather
than spending cuts. Tax increases on high-income
individuals and large corporations are less
damaging to the economy than deep spending cuts,
and income tax increases to date have affected only
a fraction of the top 1 percent of filers, leaving room
to raise taxes at the top of the income ladder
without harming the economy.'
Editorial
New York Times
October 20, 2013
Toon of the Day
Next Time
David Horsey
Los Angeles Times
http://tinyurl.com/lm73tlt
MONDAY
Quote of the Day
'If you cut Social Security benefits or Medicare
benefits to our seniors, to our most vulnerable
people in our country, you are going to get no cover
from the American labor movement.'
AFL-CIO Policy Director and Special
Counsel Damon Silvers to CNBC
about proposals to cut Social
Security and Medicare benefits,
warning politicians to stay far
away from the idea.
AFL-CIO Now
October 21, 2013
Toon of the Day
Marco to Abe
Jim Morin
Miami Herald
http://tinyurl.com/kg37e53
TUESDAY
Quote of the Day
'The United States cannot continue violating
international law with impunity through an
inhuman and illegal blockade that has caused
enormous damage to the Cuban people for more
than 50 years.'
Willy Meyer, Spanish member of
parliament and vice president of
the Foreign Affairs Commission of
the European Parliament, referring
to the slated October 29 vote in the
UN General Assembly on the resolution
on "the Necessity of Ending the
Economic, Commercial and Financial
Blockade imposed the United States
against Cuba," and calling on Catherine
Ashton, European Union High
Representative for Foreign Affairs, to
publicly endorse the resolution on
behalf of the EU.
Prensa Latina
October 22, 2013
Toon of the Day
Down the Road
Rob Rogers
http://tinyurl.com/k7df7fn
WEDNESDAY
Quote of the Day
'The central issue of our time is the reality of
widening inequality of income and wealth.
Everything else - the government shutdown, the
fight over the debt ceiling, the continuing
negotiations over the budget deficit - is a
dangerous distraction. The Right's success in
generating this distraction is its greatest, and most
insidious, triumph.'
Economist Robert Reich
blog
October 23, 2013
Toon of the Day
Game of Drones
Bas van der Schot, - Dutch daily De Volkskrant.
http://tinyurl.com/k7sw2ay
THURSDAY
Quote of the Day
'In one case, in October 2012, a 68-year-old
grandmother was gathering vegetables in a field, her
grandchildren nearby, when she was “blasted into
pieces” by a drone strike that appeared aimed
directly at her. Three months earlier, 18 male
laborers, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed in
a series of drone strikes on the remote village of
Zowi Sidgi. The first one struck a tent where the
men had gathered for an evening meal; others
struck those who came to rescue the injured.'
New York Times editorial on report
released Tuesday by Amnesty
International that examined nine
suspected U.S. drone strikes in
Pakistan
October 24, 2013
Toon of the Day
Heart Attack
Jeff Danziger
http://tinyurl.com/pdpe986
FRIDAY
Quote of the Day
'Rich Republicans are passionate in their disdain for
any form of government stimulus from government
spending to the expansionary efforts of the Federal
Reserve. Wall Street Democrats are smitten with
centrist deficit-reduction plans, like the one
proposed by former GOP Sen. Alan Simpson and
former Democratic White House chief of staff
Erskine Bowles. Simpson-Bowles would both curb
entitlements like Medicare and increase taxes. But it
is hard to imagine any unemployed American ever
racing home to shout, "I'm going to get a new job
because Congress passed Simpson-Bowles".'
Walter Shapiro political correspondent,
Yahoo! News, Columbia Journalism
Review, The New Republic
Yahoo
October 25, 2013
Toon of the Day
Dog
Mike Luckovich
http://tinyurl.com/lr3xjo6
SATURDAY
Quote of the Day
'There is an inherent tension - and obscenity - in
the wildly divergent fortunes of the rich and the
poor in this country, especially among our children.
The growing imbalance of both wealth and
opportunity cannot be sustained. Something has to
give.'
Columnist Charles M. Blow
New York Times
October 26, 2013
Toon of the Day
Friends and Family
Steve Kelley
http://tinyurl.com/n2xlfu9
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