Billionaires for Austerity: Wall Street Roots of "Fix the Debt" Campaign Exposed

Billionaires for Austerity: Wall Street Roots of "Fix the Debt" Campaign Exposed

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With $85 billion across-the-board spending cuts set to take effect on Friday, a new investigation reveals how billionaire investors, such as Peter Peterson, have helped reshaped the national debate. Democracy Now! talks to John Nichols of The Nation and Lisa Graves of Center for Media and Democracy.

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/26/billionaires_for_austerity_with_cuts_looming

Portal:Fix the Debt - SourceWatch

Peterson told the Washington Post that he gave Fix the Debt some $5 million in funding; Fix the Debt was announced on the Peterson website and Peterson appeared at the Fix the Debt launch in July ...

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Fix the Debt Leaders and Conflicts of Interest - SourceWatch

The Campaign to Fix the Debt is the latest incarnation of a decades-long effort by former Nixon man turned Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson to slash earned benefit programs such as Social ...

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fix_the_Debt_Leaders_and_Conflicts_of_Interest

Stacking the Deck: The Phony 'Fix the Debt' Campaign | The Nation

Reuters/Mark Blinch The least controversial lines in President Obama's State of the Union address should have been his assertions that "deficit reduction alone is not an economic plan" and that "we

http://www.thenation.com/article/173022/stacking-deck-phony-fix-debt-campaign