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Blue plaque for Galton & Simpson
and Steptoe and Son writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson are to be honoured with a blue plaque at the hospital where they met. The British Comedy Society will unveil the tribute at Milford Hospital near Godalming in Surrey on June 1. It is there that they met from Chortle UK Read more »
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Dear Simpson-Bowles Austerity Gang: Go Home (and Take the Sequester With You)
Simpson and Erskine Bowles, those two hired pitchmen for budget-cutting hysteria, are still hawking an economy-killing product called “austerity economics” that’s designed to benefit their wealthy patrons at everybody else’s expense. This philosophy provides from Humanitarian News Read more »
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Dear Simpson-Bowles Austerity Gang: Go Home (and Take the Sequester With You)
than they paid under Reagan. Who does that leave to pick up the tab? Presumably you and me. And yet, when Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson make their spiel, they actually combine their “deficit reduction” pitch with an appeal to lower tax rates for the highest from Health Care For All Read more »
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Maybe the Deficit Doesn’t Need a Grand Bargain
of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, former Sen. Alan Simpson, (R-WY)(R), and Erskine Bowles (L) The CBO's new budget projections (PDF, warning: dense) are out, and the upshot is that despite the frenzied warnings of impending Armageddon from New York Magazine Read more »
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Spending cuts in Obama budget put onus on Ryan
it comes to deficit reduction, President Obama may have correctly taken the measure of Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and U.S. corporate leaders; that's a reason why any deficit deal is more remote than ever. When the president refused to embrace the recommendations from AZ starnet.com Read more »
