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1171 disability & work -- rank: 1000

Michael, Clinton made the connection to using disabled people as the "new reserve army of labor" to fight inflation. On his poverty tour Clinton explained how people with disabilities fit into the macroeconomy, “...there are a couple of options [ways to keep America's economy growing without inflation]. You can bring more people from welfare or from the ranks of the disabled into the work force, or you can go to these areas where you invest in them and you get more consumers and more ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Oct 22 12:36:56 PDT 1999

1172 California Paradise -- rank: 1000

LBOers, It is clear the business community is supporting the police and court actions against homeless people in Santa Cruz. Marta > Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:03:19 -0700 > From: Becky Johnson <wmnofstl at cruzio.com> > To: Coalition on Homelessness <coh at sfo.com> > Subject: California Homeless Civil Rights Update for SF Coal on Homelessness's > November Street Sheet > > California Homeless Civil Rights Update > > Story for the San Francisco Coalition ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Oct 22 09:09:06 PDT 1999

1173 Hate crimes and Able-ism -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: > Seems to me this type of mass murder of elderly or diabled by hateful medical professionals is reported from time to time in the press. Who knows how many others are not reported. I think we would be floored by the numbers. Some bioethicists who still have some ethics (not operating on bottom line ethics) call what is going on "stealth euthanasia." Wesley Smith is writing a book about this matter which I hope will expose the ethics profession as it grandly d ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Oct 18 16:23:08 PDT 1999

1174 Hate crimes and Able-ism -- rank: 1000

When I raise the issue of hate crimes against those who are not as "able" as others -- coming from an able-ist bias, I am often looked at incredulously. So many wrongly believe that the disabled and elderly are untouchable, cared for, protected persons -- how could anyone do anything deliberate against them? Here is one account of such a hate crime. Marta Indiana nurse found guilty of killing patients BRAZIL, Ind., Oct 17 (Reuters) - An Indiana jury on Sunday found a former nurse guil ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Oct 18 12:24:58 PDT 1999

1175 Union sues IMF -- rank: 1000

This may be of interest: Union Sues IMF On Behalf Of Fired Workers Fox News A South Korean banking union said on Friday it was suing the International Monetary Fund for $398,000 in damages on behalf of workers fired during an IMF-led restructuring of the financial industry. It was thought to be the first suit against the IMF from a country it has given aid to. http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/etcetera/wires/1015/e_rt_ -- Marta Russell

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Oct 15 15:38:55 PDT 1999

1176 food stamps? was Re: [fla-left] Bloody -- rank: 1000

> kelley wrote: > > >know. food stamps weren't the result of leftist struggle. there was > some, > but most of the program is the result of the growing ind. ag lobby. they > saw this as a way to subsidize purchase of their products. I've not had to time to read all this thread, maybe someone already mentioned this, but if not, food stamps are also a way to boost agricultural workers below living wages without the agri business having to contribute. They can continue to pay ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Oct 11 17:48:44 PDT 1999

1177 new economy & market gains -- rank: 1000

Thanks Doug, I had a feeling I was barking up a tree that might be virtual reality but couldn't quite decipher why. Marta Doug Henwood wrote: > Marta: > >Is there anything out there which shows how much > >stock market gains (increase in personal wealth > >for the few) have contributed to the "economic > >boom" ? I'm not sure what form such a tabulation > >would take-- a percentage maybe? > > That's really hard to say. After controlling for macro ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Oct 3 11:18:01 PDT 1999

1178 Proclamation on Disability Employment Awareness Month 1999 -- rank: 1000

Bill has got the rhetoric going on disability these days. However take note that the Work Incentive Bill here has been whittled down so that one can only keep Medicare and Medicaid for SIX years. After one has worked for six years, whap, no more Medicare or Medicaid. What then? Many cannot get or afford to pay for private insurance, the premiums will be exorbitant, preexisting condition exclusions often last for six months to a year. With no Medicare or Medicaid, the disabled worker will hav ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Oct 3 10:22:47 PDT 1999

1179 new economy & market gains -- rank: 1000

Can an LBOer inform me: Clinton and co want to prevent the collapse of the “new economy” which has delivered large, I believe historic?, returns from stock market investments. We know money is being consolidated in the hands of the few. The richest one percent of households now control 40 percent of the nation's assets, twice what they had 20 years ago. Since 1983, the value of the stock market has increased 13-fold but less than half of the population owns any form of stocks, and the vast major ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Oct 2 09:53:14 PDT 1999

1180 seattle -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: > best of luck to those on the ground. > wish I was there so I could join the > walker brigade. I wish I could be there to chain my power wheelchair to the front doors of the convention center. I'd like to see them get an accessible police van through that crowd to remove me. No way! marta

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Nov 30 21:00:06 PST 1999

1181 Posner and Gates -- rank: 1000

Judge Richard Posner is an icon of the Law and Economics School - I think that he sits on the 7th or 8th circuit court. As CNN Money Line reported today, Posner is acting as a kind ofconsultant in some mediation process to try to bring Microsoft and the Federal government parties to some agreement. Legally, I don't know how Posner can be brought into the fray between Gates and the Federal lawyers because it seems that he would be inteferring in a court process with the sitting judge who has alr ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Nov 30 20:35:26 PST 1999

1182 Posner and Gates -- rank: 1000

That self appointed protector of business, Judge Richard Posner, is inserting himself into the Microsoft/Federal law suit. I would guess his intent is to manipulate the process in favor of Gates since the final decision will not be rendered until February 2000. -- Marta Russell

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Nov 30 15:58:58 PST 1999

1183 seattle -- rank: 1000

CNN just claimed that protesters pushed the police too far, and violence broke out. What most likely happened was that the police wanted to clear the protesters out of the way and gassed them. The CNN question to the reporter was "Is any work getting done" in Seattle, and is any productive work being accomplished by the WTO? I would say the protest itself is the best work getting done in Seattle right now. marta Max Sawicky wrote: > Here's a few links. Reports do not mention rubbe ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Nov 30 15:49:34 PST 1999

1184 HOLLYWOOD A RUSTBELT? -- rank: 1000

There have been so many posts, I don't know if LBOers already know this but Doug was on Radio Nation's live broadcast from Seattle today -- and will be all week. My friend in the visual effects industry was over on Thanksgiving. Even though he was recognized with an Oscar for his work in special make up effects and known for his work in the film industry, it seems he is not immune to the rust belt factor. It was sad to hear that he and his partner are struggling as if they were newcomers to th ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Nov 29 21:17:54 PST 1999

1185 Alex Cockburn writes.... -- rank: 1000

I understand that Alex doesn't like computers and doesn't even have an email address. How did he get all these messages? marta Doug Henwood wrote: > The lead of Alexander Cockburn's column in this week's New York > Press, which starts on the front page, of all places: > > <quote> > "The New York Press is a foulmouthed and stupid rightwing giveaway > paper here In New York, for which Alex, for reasons best known to > himself, writes a column. It's read by media ju ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Nov 17 18:08:52 PST 1999