What can you buy with the $3.5 trillion?
The undiscussed benefits had Congress and the President allowed the country to go over the "fiscal cliff."
Journalists in the service of Pete Peterson
Most of those who interview or moderate for Peterson’s “fiscal summits” appear to themselves believe that it’s “not realistic” to believe the country can afford the programs it used to. Those who are prepared to be “adults," they think, will not flinch at these “hard truths” and recognize that it is time to take citizens-have-to-do-with-less medicine. The proof is in the questions.
When Democrats sang a different tune
25 Democratic and Independent Senators voted to continue Bush tax cuts for 99.3 percent of households. What did they say when those cuts were enacted?