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32986 CBO: SS funds to be tapped -- rank: 1000

AUG 27, 2001 Report Says Lower Surplus Will Affect Social Security By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 3:39 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush's tax cut and the nation's economic downturn will force the government to take $9 billion out of Social Security this year to pay for other operations, breaking a bipartisan commitment in Congress, congressional analysts reported Monday. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, offering a more pessimistic view of the government's finances than the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 27 16:17:56 PDT 2001

32987 WSJ on JMK X 2 -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - August 27, 2001 [front page] The Outlook The federal budget surplus is rapidly shrinking. That's a good thing, but you wouldn't know it from the debate in Washington, where the standard recession-fighting prescription is endangered by a newfound obsession with the Social Security surplus. Amid a softening economy, how important is preserving the federal budget surplus? Participate in the Question of the Day. Most economists accept that, at least in theory, the government sh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 27 12:49:23 PDT 2001

32988 populism & lynching -- rank: 1000

[The Watson essay is at <http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/spl/tomwatson.html>.] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Subject: The Force Bill John Mage cited the populists' refusal to support the Force Bill as an argument clincher. In the Populist Reader (Tindall) there is an extended treatment of this issue by Tom Watson in "The Negro Question in the South." It does a much better job explaining than my short post. If I had a scanner I'd post it here. mbs

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 27 10:53:11 PDT 2001

32989 sacred texts -- rank: 1000

From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Subject: re: "one united brotherhood of free men" Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:32:57 -0400 >By the way, many web versions of the preamble contain this: > >>We declare that this Republic can only endure as a free government >>while built upon the love of the whole people for each other and >>for the nation; that it cannot be pinned together by bayonets; that >>the civil war is over, and that every passion and resentmen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 27 10:14:22 PDT 2001

32990 Goodwyn on the present, or 1989 -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >My notion of agency is not centered on what >Doug calls the petit-bourgeoisie. It is >centered on labor. It includes the p-b. >I'd prefer the p-b to identify with the >working class than the capitalist class. So see if you can get them to stop supporting the anti-regulatory, anti-labor rightwing nutcase crowd, ok? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 27 10:13:21 PDT 2001

32991 juggling work & family -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:03:54 -0400 My fearless leader Eileen Appelbaum (EPI Research Director) appears in this. mbs > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > July 31, 2001 > > Contact: Lisa Meredith or Edie Emery, Goodman Media International > (703) 837-9500 > lisa at goodmanmedia.com > edie at goodmanmedia.com > > "JUGGLING WO ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 27 10:12:15 PDT 2001

32992 Goodwyn on the present, or 1989 -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >How would you characterize the current petty bourgeosie? Are you using >it as a synonym for "petty producers," or does it have some other >content? I'm using it broadly, perhaps recklessly, to cover small business owners and independent professionals, who feel squeezed by big capital but want to see themselves as distinct from the working class. I think middle managers share some aspects of the p.b. mindset, sometimes acting/thinking like workers and sometim ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 27 10:05:24 PDT 2001

32993 Goodwyn on the present, or 1989 -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >The best audience for populism right now in the U.S. >would be people who might have joined the Reform Party >before Buchanan destroyed it. And who's that? An enraged petit bourgeoisie? Perot's 1992 base? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 27 06:37:54 PDT 2001

32994 [men] -- rank: 1000

Max, now that you're near the sacred texts, don't forget to investigate: >By the way, many web versions of the preamble contain this: > >>We declare that this Republic can only endure as a free government >>while built upon the love of the whole people for each other and >>for the nation; that it cannot be pinned together by bayonets; that >>the civil war is over, and that every passion and resentment which >>grew out of it must die with it, and that we must b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 27 06:35:32 PDT 2001

32995 UAW -- rank: 1000

Oh, and another item from Labor Notes - in a show of solidarity with Ford, the UAW sent a convoy of Explorers to DC during Congressional hearings on the vehicle's safety.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 26 14:35:54 PDT 2001

32996 Machinists on NMD -- rank: 1000

[from Labor Notes, August 2001] The Machinists Union has produced a 15-minute video in support of President Bush's Star Wars plans. The video, titled 'Bombs Bursting in Air,' is narrated by IAM President Thomas Buffenbarger. 'Which of our cities will they target?,' Buffenbarger asks. 'Anchorage? Honolulu? Seattle? Portland? San Francisco? Los Angeles?' Thankfully, the East Coast appears safe from imminent attack.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 26 14:34:02 PDT 2001

32997 Populism -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Then there is the interesting link between >money creation and debt that Forstater talked >about. If the Feds can sell bonds, there is >fundamentally no distinction between it and >the Fed. The USG sells bonds; like a corporation, it's tapping the capital markets for money it will owe back. The Fed buys bonds, using money created out of thin air. Big diff, I'd say. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 26 13:17:04 PDT 2001

32998 Populism -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >See how forgiving I am. They're not with you on fiscal policy either: >We denounce the sale of bonds and the increase of the public >interest-bearing debt made by the present Administration as >unnecessary and without authority of law, and demand that no more >bonds be issued except by specific act of Congress. and >We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as >possible in the hands of the people, and hence we demand that all >Sta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 26 12:29:27 PDT 2001

32999 populism -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >"Transportation being a means of exchange and > a public necessity, the government should own > and operate the railroads in the interests of > the people." > >Ignatius Donnelly >St. Louis >Preamble to the Populist Party Platform, 1892 Don't forget: >That we condemn the fallacy of protecting American labor under the >present system, which opens our ports to the pauper and criminal >classes of the world and crowds out our wage-earn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 26 11:01:54 PDT 2001

33000 Goodwyn on the present, or 1989 -- rank: 1000

Ok, Max, I checked out some of your populist sites, and I ran into a 1989 contribution from Goodwyn, from a session on "Democratic Money" <http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8569/Goodwyn.Greider.html>. Some excerptsP >Sitting around the kitchen, we may tell ourselves that these three >institutions that house victims are not internally organized to do >anything about it. They're not quite sure who stole the goods. It's >sort of awesome to say that both major parties ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 26 10:29:39 PDT 2001