Joshua Holland is an editor and senior writer at < a href=“http://www.alternet.org”>AlterNet. He’s the author of The Fifteen Biggest Lies About the Economy.
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The GOP’s 1 Trillion Dollar Lie
How a right-wing whopper about the cost of welfare was born.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet