Republican House Speaker John Boehner’s new budget proposal would require deep cuts in the years immediately ahead in Social Security and Medicare benefits for current retirees, the repeal of health reform’s coverage expansions, or wholesale evisceration of basic assistance programs for vulnerable Americans, according to a top Washington budget analyst. Boehner’s plan also would still reportedly probably result in a downgrade of the the federal government’s AAA credit rating. With just a week left before the federal government is...

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The Koch modus operandi has always been to hide, to disguise, to operate under any name but their own. That's an unbroken series of demonstrable actions going back to the 1970s, and a slew of actions that carefully AVOID a causal link, but look increasingly likely as the evidence mounts. In the 2006 "Howie Rich" scandal, millions of dollars were slushed to dozens of states and the Center for Public Integrity's investigation turned up that THREE individuals funded them...

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