Dan Mitchell Has All You Need to Know About the Debt Commission

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 11th at 01:16 PM  | 

I realize for the front page this should probably be a longer post, but this must be your must read of the day. Dan Mitchell from the CATO Institute has everything you need to know about the Debt Commission report. If you read through their report, it sounds like there are lots of spending cuts. But they never explain that these supposed cuts are really | Read More »

The Debt Commission Report

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 11th at 05:00 AM  | 

As you wake up this morning, there is a lot of talk about the leaked report of the Debt Commission. Keep in mind that this is not the final report, but a draft passed out by the co-chairs. What you need to know is pretty straight forward. Yes, the plan ends the deficit. It does so with lots and lots of spending cuts across the | Read More »

Actually it looks like the Democrats will be the ones destroying social security

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 20th at 08:58 AM  | 

A headline at CNN back on August 13th proclaimed “Democrats to use Social Security against GOP this fall”. There is just one problem. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that it is Barack Obama’s own debt commission that intends to destroy social security as we know it. In addition to raising the retirement age, which is now set to reach age 67 in 2027, specific | Read More »