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166 [lbo-talk] LBO keywords HA! -- rank: 1000

If I weren't on the list disability would probably not be such a grand total. Before I joined the list years and years ago, were there that many disability postings then? Marta On Apr 20, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > For a "male-dominated" list that allegedly doesn't give a fuck > about disability, those aren't really bad numbers. We could always > do better, but I'm not about to hang my head in shame. > > Doug > > info at pulpculture.org wrote: > ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 17:15:57 PDT 2006

167 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

Today I must spend on the toxic mold situation in this condo. The HOA last night offered me a handyman who knows nothing about mold remediation and is not a licensed contractor. I can't engage with you now. I would suggest reading an essay written by David Pfeiffer, who was a professor and friend of mine, in the book called "Teamsters and Turtles: U.S. Progressive Political Movements in the 21st Century" ed. John Berg <> Conclusion In the introduction to this volume John ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 09:33:21 PDT 2006

168 [lbo-talk] Re: Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 19, 2006, at 3:55 PM, John Adams wrote: > > This is the nub of it, isn't it? It's Marta's belief in the truth > of the first statement--and she's got a point--that activates the > sentiments of the second statement. > > That doesn't make it right--that second statement, it's wrong, it's > xenophobic, it's counter-productive--but when the left appears to > bypass one group which deserves our support in order to support > another, it's understandable when members ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 16:56:32 PDT 2006

169 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 19, 2006, at 4:05 PM, jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: > > > So now Marta is sharing thought space with far right-wing racists > like Cosman? That's rich. > Quoting this nut pretty much blows away most of the credibility you > worked to earn. > Maybe you'll want to post a few anti-immigration blurbs from FOX > News later? > > Of course maybe I'm being too hard on Cosman just because she > appears at "The Defense of Our Nation > Begins at Our Border ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 16:16:48 PDT 2006

170 [lbo-talk] Immigrants bringing in disease (was re: Dean Baker and Immigration) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 19, 2006, at 3:03 PM, B. wrote: > > Marta Russell wrote: > > "The medical literature reports that many undocumented > immigrants sequester within their bodies infectious > and fatal diseases that long ago were fought and > eliminated by American medicine Now illegals may carry > drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis, malaria, > polio, leprosy, plague, dengue fever and Chagas > disease." > I did not write that. It was in an article I posted. A ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 15:54:19 PDT 2006

171 [lbo-talk] Re: Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 19, 2006, at 3:01 PM, BklynMagus wrote: > > > As always, I recommend applying Occam's Razor -- the simplest answer > to the problem is the best: increase funding to services. The more > convoluted approach of pitting various groups against one another > achieves > nothing. > That is obviously the answer but it isn't happening, in fact the opposite is happening. There are some on this list who may think that the fact that things are getting so bad is good because ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 15:51:51 PDT 2006

172 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 19, 2006, at 2:27 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > > >>> What do you think about this: >>> A study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform >>> estimated that in 2004 the annual uncompensated cost of medical >>> care for illegal immigrants in California was $1.4 billion. >>> >> >> The most recent data for California health expenditures <http:// >> www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/dow ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 15:33:07 PDT 2006

173 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 19, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > Marta Russell wrote: > > >> > > The most recent data for California health expenditures <http:// > www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/downloads/ > nhestatehealthaccountstables.pdf> was $126 billion in 2000. If > that's increased in line with national expenditures, that was > probably about $170 billion in 2004. So, $1.4 billion is 0.8% of > the total. Big damn deal, eh? Nonchalance is left to the h ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 15:31:59 PDT 2006

174 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Marta, > > I think the point many of us are trying to make (some more > tactfully than others) are that the problems you point out about > SSI and health care have little or nothing to do with immigration. > Yes, they are serious problems, and yes, we should solve them. > However, even with the harshest immigration policies--boot 'em all > out, no social services--all the problems you identify will persist > for disa ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 13:36:35 PDT 2006

175 [lbo-talk] Immigration and Federalism -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > If anything, Marta, cracking down on Latino immigrants and making > California whiter will make it easier for the state and federal > governments to cut health care and other services. Many of them > English-speaking Anglos don't vote with you and they sure don't > demonstrate with you for the Big Welfare State. But many of the > Latinos -- and occasional disaffected Japanese who come here for a > lark :-> -- ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 13:33:17 PDT 2006

176 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2006, at 3:03 PM, B. wrote: > By the same token, I do know that some folks on > disability try to get jobs where they're paid "under > the table"/off-the-books so they won't lose benefits. > That means they don't pay into the system from their > paycheck, either, of course. This is largely out of fear of losing their health care. Disabled people are uninsurable in the private healthcare system. Marta

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 13:23:05 PDT 2006

177 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: > > >> Don't illegal immigrants (I really hate that term) pay into the >> system? >> > > They sure do. Massey says that the pay more in taxes than they draw > in benefits or services, but Marta doesn't want to believe that. Massey cannot know that because illegals going to hospitals do not a;ways say they are illegals and hospitals do not track such information, therefore the ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 13:21:11 PDT 2006

178 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2006, at 3:37 PM, ravi wrote: > > Once again what does this have to do with immigrants? I need some > dental > work done right now too. My doctor is willing to see me in July. My > insurance company says I am close to exhausting my limits for this > year, > so I may have to wait till next year to get some of the work done. As Los Angeles Times columnist Ronald Brownstein wrote in his December 30, 2003 column Health-Care Storm Brewing in California Threatens to ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 13:16:19 PDT 2006

179 [lbo-talk] Immigrants, the Disabled, and Disabled Immigrants -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > Marta wrote: > <blockquote> > During World War II when there were less able bodied men in the labor > force, the disabled employment rate improved greatly. The reason for > that was that there were fewer people in the country to take the jobs > and so employers would hire disabled people. When soldiers returned > home many disabled people lost their jobs to the able bodied once > again. We have never re ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 13:15:06 PDT 2006

180 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2006, at 3:37 PM, ravi wrote: > > Once again what does this have to do with immigrants? I need some > dental > work done right now too. My doctor is willing to see me in July. My > insurance company says I am close to exhausting my limits for this > year, > so I may have to wait till next year to get some of the work done. As Los Angeles Times columnist Ronald Brownstein wrote in his December 30, 2003 column Health-Care Storm Brewing in California Threatens to ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 13:05:40 PDT 2006