“As far as campaign poetry …. probably the president’s gaffe was more damaging. But if we’re talking about a substantive issue of what these candidates meant, Mitt Romney’s comment really is reflective of the sort of austerity fetish that the [...] watch video
“Where are the jobs? If this is a good strategy, we should be in a country where we’re desperate to find enough workers instead of having millions of people out of work. It’s a failed strategy, the evidence is in: [...] watch video
“Americans today are worse off than they were a decade and a half ago.” — Joseph Stiglitz watch video
“There is an answer and any businessman can see it: This is the best time for the U.S. government to borrow more money.” — Eliot Spitzer watch video
“The Republicans will say, ‘Well, we need more tax cuts for the rich who are the job creators.’ Baloney! The rich are already taking home more than they’ve ever taken in terms of the percentage of the American economy. We [...] watch video
“I make, call it 1,000 times as much as the median wage, but I don’t buy 1,000 times as much stuff.” — Nick Hanauer watch video
“The private sector has actually been doing really well. Our economy is now larger than it was before the crisis.” — Dan Gross watch video
Paul Krugman warns against the “continuing damage” of the low labor force participation rate in the U.S.: “We’re not just suffering in the short run, we’re also endangering the long run because we are pushing people out of the labor [...] watch video
“I think under Romney the middle class will continue to shrink. Not only are Romney’s tax policies regressive, but also he is bent on accepting Paul Ryan’s Republican budget, which will cut discretionary spending, education — will cut almost all [...] watch video
“It is clear to me that these White House staffers and the president of the United States share with me — and with the whole gay rights movement and transgender rights movement — the American value that you should be [...] watch video
