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Young Turks: Cutting entitlements “to the bone is not the only idea out there”
On his show “The Young Turks” on Nov. 30, Cenk Uygur claims that CNN host Erin Burnett isn’t critical enough of the “establishment” position on entitlement reform. In an interview with Rep. Peter Defazio (D-Ore.), Burnett says most people support certain reforms like raising the retirement age and asks, “You…
Krugman tells austerity advocate Burnett: The debt is ‘not an urgent crisis’
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman once again pushed back on the notion that America needs to engage in massive suspending cuts now to deal with the country’s debt Friday evening. Appearing on CNN’s Up Front With Erin Burnett, Krugman rejected Burnett’s premise of advocating for austerity measures to tackle…
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