What we're reading: May 12, 2010

Harold Meyerson on how the deficit hawk philosphy can be contradictory and detrimental to our children - and what we can do to stop the damage:

"It is a mantra of the deficit hawks that they are working to ensure their children and grandchildren will one day have the same opportunities that they have had. But right now, in real time, those same children and grandchildren are having those opportunities taken away."