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1246 KPFA on and on -- rank: 1000

It seems to me that to not come down hard on the national Pacifica board for its breaches would be a mistake. Maybe breaches is not the right word. The power has shifted to the top, the national ingroup has already gone into corporate mode and they should be busted for that. Pacifica IS run like any other corporation right now as far as I can tell. It is unaccountable to the listening public, its supporters, and the general manager here in LA at least tends to defer all matters of policy to t ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Jul 17 12:38:14 PDT 1999

1247 Critique of reporting on level of unemployment -- rank: 1000

Greg Boozell wrote: > The NATIONAL JOBS FOR ALL COALITION reports:> It should be noted > that even these numbers do not include the vast and rapidly growing > >prison population, disproportionately young, unskilled minority men. > If they were >counted as unemployed, the official jobless rate would > rise by over 1 percentage point. and the WSJ reports: >black > unemployment has dropped to 9% from 15% in 1985. I wonder what the > black unemployment figures wo ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jul 13 16:30:54 PDT 1999

1248 budget assumptions -- rank: 1000

Michael, As I recall the Medicare restrictions involving home care were the result of the federal government detecting that home health agencies (private businesses) were committing billing fraud. In some instances, the gov claimed, the agency would bill when they had not sent a worker to a disabled person's home, in others they were claiming the worker was there more hours than they were, etc. so the program had huge overruns. So Clinton decided to reign in the program... This "house cle ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jul 13 16:06:25 PDT 1999

1249 #90 -- rank: 1000

Doug, I did not get mine yet either, but I am in LA, the longest path to travel. Marta kayak3 wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > > > > Sorry to bother folks with this, but all you LBO subscribers out > > there, could you let me know when/if you've gotten #90 yet? It was > > mailed a week ago, but we haven't gotten our own copy yet, and the > > only subscriber I've heard from who has is in Spain. > > > > Doug > > I haven't received mine yet. I usuall ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jul 13 15:41:30 PDT 1999

1250 Marc Cooper responds -- rank: 1000

Paul thank you for the reference to "In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America" by Michael B. Katz. I really want to read it. I'd like to state more at length why I believe that the charity "solution" really isn't a solution at all. I'm reminded of a quote by Gilbert Seldes: The rich have given to the poor a little food, a little drink, a little shelter and a few clothes. The poor have given to the rich palaces and yachts, and an almost infinite f ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jan 31 21:49:26 PST 1999

1251 SSI and racism -- rank: 1000

Regarding the attack on SSI which resulted in numerous children being cut off the rolls. . . . Given that the SSI outrage was driven by a House of Reps led by white Southerners - Gingrich (GA), Army and Gramm(Texas) and a Senate controlled by Trent Lott (Mississippi), I think it is important to realize that a good part of the scapegoating was directed at black children on SSI getting "craxy checks" as Gingrich put it. One only has to think of the country club southern elite who got th ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jan 31 11:37:13 PST 1999

1252 Arianna Huffington -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: > Internet rumors are that Arianna is a Scientologist. What's > the truth of that, anybody know? > > -- > Homines id quod volunt credunt. I don't know about this claim, but she was a main supporter of some cultist whose name - sorry there are so many of them - I cannot remember. She is inclined towards these kind of things. Marta Russell

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jan 31 10:59:08 PST 1999

1253 Marc Cooper responds -- rank: 1000

Well now I must respond to being labeled paranoid. If it was the Marc Cooper hour and not Radio Nation, then that was my mistake. Radio Nation used to run in the 4:00 pm slot and I guess now that is Cooper's show. But the thrust of what I had to say still stands. Arianna Huffington has consistently touted replacing government programs with charity. If Cooper, had known more (which he admits he does not, then he could have asked her why was it then that her own attempt in Santa Barbara to pro ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Jan 30 17:25:40 PST 1999

1254 article by joel kovel -- rank: 1000

Speaking of the Nation, Marc Cooper, an occasional writer for the Nation has a show called "Radio Nation." Maybe some of you know of it. A couple of days back he had Arianna Huffington on the show. Huffington is a Republican pundit, her name has come up on this list a couple of times. Knowing Huffington's politics, for instance she wanted to "scrap SSI' and replace entitlements with "effective" compassion (charity), I was simply stunned that Cooper seemed to be uncrit ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Jan 30 11:52:28 PST 1999

1255 Beyond The Politics of Cancer Alone -- rank: 1000

Daniel wrote: > Bill, > > I'm not satisfied, for example, to see that > only a small minority of people appreciate the importance of wholesome, > clean food. If I had any influence in a political party, I would like it to > be in the dietary department - you could call it that to make it > respectable, but really I'm talking about the kitchen. I sometimes wonder if > the most important important thing a political party can do might be to feed > people good, wholesome ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Jan 29 16:16:00 PST 1999

1256 Beyond The Politics of Cancer Alone -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: > Paul Henry Rosenberg wrote: > > >First, "Chemicals Called Main Cause of Parkinson's Disease," which > >points up the fact that cancer is not the only disease corporate > >polluters are responsible for. > > Yeah, corps emit the toxins, but ordinary folks like you & me are the ones > who use Saran Wrap, drive cars, run the a/c, etc. It's too easy just to > blame the corps for the schmutz - it's the way we live our lives. > ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jan 27 12:49:43 PST 1999

1257 Kalecki cite request -- rank: 1000

As pointed on on this list in an earlier post, Kalecki's theory is that labor must be kept weak to preserve profits and the class dictatorship of capital. Could one of you economists (or learned souls) point me to a cite for this, I'd like to use it. Thanks in advance, Marta Russell

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jan 26 13:52:32 PST 1999

1258 Exempting prisoners from the ADA -- rank: 1000

Two of my favorite southerners want to exempt states from the expense of providing our ever increasing number of prisoners with rights under the ADA. People like Leonard Peltier and Gramsci became disabled while in prison, and so do many others aside from those already disabled before a jail sentence. Sorry it is so long but I thought some of you might want to read the whole thing. Marta Russell Congressional Record dated Tuesday, January 19, 1999 Senate Section -------------------------------- ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jan 25 18:56:38 PST 1999

1259 disabled hurt by ADA -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: > The main thrust of what I posted in a hurry this morning, was that if > you claim to do social 'science' then under that model, you have to > demonstrate a positive definite statistical change--up, down or > sideways. > If it is shown that the number changes were minor or insignificant, > then the MIT arguement is even weaker, since such a flat curve means, > ADA was irrelevant. That is, ADA had no significant causal effect > either way on employment ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jan 21 09:10:39 PST 1999

1260 disabled hurt by ADA -- rank: 1000

I haven't read this whole paper, but I do know that the consensus seems to be that employment of people with disabilities(pwds) has dropped since 1986 (the ADA was passed in 1990, effective in 1991). According to the 1998 NOD/Harris survey there has been no increase in employment of people with disabilities. The reasons are complex (work disincentives, health care issues) but most can be boiled down to resistance of employers to hire pwds because of additional costs (whether perceived or real) ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jan 20 11:05:16 PST 1999