Democracy Now!
"With $85 billion across-the-board spending cuts, known as “the sequestration,”
set to take effect this Friday, a new investigation reveals how billionaire
investors, such as Peter Peterson, have helped reshaped the national debate on
the economy, the debt and social spending. Between 2007 and 2011, Peterson
personally contributed nearly $500 million to his Peter G. Peterson Foundation
to push Congress to cut Social Security, Medicare
and Medicaid — while providing tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy.
Peterson’s main platform has been the Campaign to Fix the Debt. While the
campaign is portrayed as a citizen-led effort, critics say the campaign is a
front for business groups. The campaign has direct ties to GE, JPMorgan Chase
and Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs. Peterson is the former chair and CEO of Lehman
Brothers and co-founder of the private equity firm, the Blackstone Group.
For more, we speak to John Nichols of The Nation and Lisa Graves of the Center
for Media and Democracy......."
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