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19141 [lbo-talk] Fwd: SS -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - January 1, 2004 A Big Push On Social Security Private Accounts Are Bush Priority By Jim VandeHei Washington Post Staff Writer President Bush's political allies are raising millions of dollars for an election-style campaign to promote private Social Security accounts, as Democrats and Republicans prepare for what they predict will be the most expensive and extensive public policy debate since the 1993 fight over the Clinton administration's failed health care plan. With Bush pla ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 3 12:21:06 PST 2005

19142 [lbo-talk] Nation thrives -- rank: 1000

J Cullen wrote: >David Shaw writes about The Nation thriving under the Bush >administration. In the second graf he quotes Victor Navasky saying >the Nation had only 28,000 subscribers when he bought it 10 years >ago for $1 million. Was its circulation really that low in the >mid-90s? It is now reportedly 185,000. If Big Vic says so, it must be true. When Navasky took over editing The Nation in the late 70s, the recently departed Jack Newfield commented: "The Nation? When thei ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 3 12:14:51 PST 2005

19143 [lbo-talk] Investing in Russia? Some LBO folks have asked -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >It was a combination of high oil prices, increased >domestic demand after the devaluation of the ruble, >and, yes, the "vertical of power" and the successful >cowing of the oligarchic class. What would the Yeltsin gang have done with the higher oil revenue? Stolen it, right? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 3 08:04:56 PST 2005

19144 [lbo-talk] Missing the Marx -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Housing strikes me as a more complex issue. Planning >can be great, I;ves een worker's housing projects, >e.g., in the Netherlands, that are marvelous. On the >other hand you can get The Projects, like infamous and >soon-to-be-demolished-and-gentrified Cabrini Green >here in Chicago. Or those endless dreary blocks of >Krushchev flats that scar the Russian urban landscape. When I was first doing my radio show, I interviewed Preston Smith, who did a ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 3 07:22:08 PST 2005

19145 [lbo-talk] Wesley the 4 year old Anarchist -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Well, duh. Didn't the Jesuits say "give me a kid till the age of >seven, and he's mine forever" ? No, they said give me a kid til the age of seven, but after that, we're not interested! Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 3 06:59:21 PST 2005

19146 [lbo-talk] Missing the Marx -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Doug writes: > >> how we'll get beyond a petroleum-based energy system. > >I think you're gonna need a lot more than planning to get this one done. Firing squads, no doubt. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 2 16:27:09 PST 2005

19147 [lbo-talk] chat with Charles Murrary -- rank: 1000

Tommy Kelly wrote: >Sometime in February, Charles Murray will be on C-SPAN's "Book TV". >If you had a chance to ask him a question, what would you ask? Has he ever gone hungry? Had a hard time making the rent? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 2 13:35:19 PST 2005

19148 [lbo-talk] Wolfie going? -- rank: 1000

Wolfensohn Expects to Step Down as World Bank Head WASHINGTON (Reuters) - World Bank (news - web sites) President James Wolfensohn said on Sunday that he expected the White House to select a new World Bank leader this year as he completes 10 years as chief of the international lender. There has been speculation for weeks in Washington over the future of Wolfensohn, a Clinton appointee whose second five-year term expires in June. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick was mentioned as a possib ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 2 13:03:51 PST 2005

19149 [lbo-talk] Americans - mainly Dems - not so optimistic about 2005 -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: THE YEAR AHEAD - 12/19/04 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 7 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005 Outlook for 2005 is Less Bright; Iraq and the Election are Factors Public optimism about the year ahead is down sharply from its level at the start of 2004, fueled both by broader concern about the situation in Iraq and by discontent among Democrats with the re-election of George W. Bush. Optimism still trumps pessimism: Two-thirds of Americans are more hopeful than fearful about what ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 2 12:38:23 PST 2005

19150 [lbo-talk] Missing the Marx -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >If we agree on that, "we are all market socialists." I'll say it once more and then resign from this debate. The politically relevant question in the here & now is how we can get more planning and less market. It's the only way we'll ever get the poorest decently fed and housed, how we'll get all of us health insurance, and how we'll get beyond a petroleum-based energy system. Real-world markets in housing, health care, and energy are failing very bad ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 2 12:33:16 PST 2005

19151 [lbo-talk] Missing the Marx -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Precisely why the best comparisons are between West Germany and the DDR and >South Korea and North Korea. If you adjust for U.S. aid to the FRG and SK. SK in particular benefited enormously from U.S. military spending in the 1950s and 1960s. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 2 12:30:13 PST 2005

19152 [lbo-talk] Missing the Marx -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >What are these exceptions in East Asia? China is 50 years behind >India in its political structures.It's not even a liberal democracy. I was speaking in purely economic terms. And you know the exceptions - Japan, S Korea, etc. China too, but it's got a long way to go. > >So it's kind of remarkable that the comparison between the >USSR >and the West is even made. Substitute Brazil or >>India for the USSR and see how funny it sounds. > >The co ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 2 12:25:57 PST 2005

19153 [lbo-talk] Missing the Marx -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The main virtue you claim for the >market, its provision of information on the basis of which the present >may be connected to an invisible future, is its fatal flaw. "By 'uncertain' knowledge, let me explain, I do not mean merely to distinguish what is known for certain from what is only probable. The game of roulette is not subject, in this sense, to uncertainty; nor is the prospect of a victory bond being drawn.... Even the weather is only moderately uncertain ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 2 12:12:57 PST 2005

19154 [lbo-talk] Investing in Russia? Some LBO folks have asked -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >People here _love_ Putin. The high point of my New >Year's at my ex-girlfriend's dacha was all the little >kida yelling "POO-TIN! POO-TIN!" during his televized >New Year's address. He's done more for people in this >country than any leader since forever. I don't see why >people don't notice this. (I think part of it may be >that Western leftists tend to base their opinions on >Russia _one_ person, Kagarlitsky, plus maybe Cohen.) It sure looke ...

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19155 [lbo-talk] Missing the Marx -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >The Soviet model failed over "surpass and overtake" >the West. And who else has? It's remarkable how little change there's been in the global hierarchy over the last 100 years. The major exceptions are in East Asia. So it's kind of remarkable that the comparison between the USSR and the West is even made. Substitute Brazil or India for the USSR and see how funny it sounds. Doug

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