Austerity Trap News Today

“The Austerity Trap”: What Raising The Medicare Eligibility Age Really Means After a campaign in which Republicans attempted to pillory Barack Obama for finding $716 billion in savings from Medicare (via cuts in payments to insurance companies and providers but not cuts to benefits), those same Republicans now seem to be demanding that Obama agree to cuts in Medicare benefits as the price of saving the country from the Austerity Trap, a.k.a. fiscal cliff. Oh, the irony! You’d almost thin...

A little bit, kim. although theyre going to still come back, i assume with the cuts, spending cuts campaign. is there a danger here that ryan and romney will fall into the austerity trap. instead of pushing growth, as james stresstheyll talk about spending cuts and shrinking government and for a lot of the swing voters, thats not the message that they want to hear. what they want to hear, how are you going to improve my life, my circumstances and give me more opportunity? >> yeah, and thats exac...

A little bit, kim. although theyre going to still come back, i assume with the cuts, spending cuts campaign. is there a danger here that ryan and romney will fall into the austerity trap. instead of pushing growth, as james stresetheyll talk about spending cuts and shrinking government and for a lot of the swing voters, thats not the message that they want to hear. what they want to hear, how are you going to improve my life, my circumstances and give me more opportunity? >> yeah, and thats exac...

A little bit, kim. although theyre going to still come back, i assume with the cuts, spending cuts campaign. is there a danger here that ryan and romney will fall into the austerity trap. instead of pushing growth, as james stresstheyll talk about spending cuts and shrinking government and for a lot of the swing voters, thats not the message that they want to hear. what they want to hear, how are you going to improve my life, my circumstances and give me more opportunity? >> yeah, and thats exac...

.robert reisch saying at president should make it clear he wont follow america into an austerity trap of slower growth and higher unemployment. what is happening in europe, is it a lesson for those of us in the united states? >> david cameron is elected in may 2010 and introduces through his treasure sect a series of draconian cuts. 25% is cut from public housing. 25% frrs all nonhousing. and guess what, the british gorveths the british nation has just collapsed back into recession. the second q...

amanda knox sentenced to 26 years in prison for killing her roommate. the defense claims dna evidence used to convict knox is unreliable. the prosecution says independent experts ignored other key evidence, which reports that knox said in a letter she was worried but that she was thinking of what she would do once she was back in the u.s. after more than two years in iranian prison two freed american are calling their trial on charges of spying a sham. josh fattal and shane bauer say...