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316 [lbo-talk] Corps dumping healthcare on taxpayers -- rank: 1000

Report Shows Large Firms Relying on State Health Plan for Poor The Associated Press Thursday 03 March 2005 Hartford, Conn. - Retail giant Wal-Mart, Stop & Shop supermarkets and Dunkin' Donuts top the list of Connecticut employers whose workers use the state's health insurance program for poor children and some parents, according to a new report. Those three companies employ more than 2,600 adults who are parents or caretakers of children on the state's HUSKY A program. Most of those adults a ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Mar 4 16:43:42 PST 2005

317 [lbo-talk] Douglas J. Feith -- rank: 1000

Contentious Defense Official to Depart By Mark Mazzetti The Los Angeles Times Thursday 27 January 2005 WASHINGTON - Douglas J. Feith, the controversial policy advisor to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and a hawkish proponent of the war in Iraq, plans to return to the private sector this summer, the Defense Department said Wednesday. As undersecretary of Defense for policy, Feith, 51, is the Pentagon's third-ranking civilian official. He directs a staff of 1,500 employees who develop the Pe ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jan 27 10:42:37 PST 2005

318 [lbo-talk] $80 Million in Tax Refunds to Companies -- rank: 1000

And Ahnold says this (CA) is an anti-business state. He must be one of the three stooges. Marta State OKs $80 Million in Tax Refunds to Companies None of the firms benefiting from a tax credit for equipment purchases paid state income taxes. Activists threaten lawsuit. By Evan Halper Times Staff Writer January 26, 2005 SACRAMENTO - A powerful state tax board has awarded a group of companies that paid no corporate income taxes in recent years $80.6 million in refunds. The board voted to give 18 ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jan 26 16:25:56 PST 2005

319 [lbo-talk] frontiers of financial innovation -- rank: 1000

>I love this phrase I just read in a letter to Business Week: >"negative amortization variable-interest mortages with low teaser >rates." I'm guessing that this means that in the early stages, your >monthly payment doesn't even cover the interest, so the difference >gets tacked on to the principal - and, should market interest rates >rise, so will your mortgage payment. What are people thinking when >they sign up for these things? >______________________________ ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jan 18 15:26:26 PST 2005

320 [lbo-talk] Re: Bush using SSA to propagandize -- rank: 1000

> > >My only hope is that Iraq will continue to deteriorate into an even >more horrible nightmare and stall GWB's domestic agenda. > >CG Since W is out in the public sphere holding his rigged home-town down-home talks about Social Security it would also help for people to write op-eds, write letters to the editor that present a realistic view of what is happening and send these to newspapers all over the country. Not all Republicans favor his plan, especially the part about cu ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jan 17 11:08:32 PST 2005

321 [lbo-talk] Bush using SSA to propagandize -- rank: 1000

From the New York Times... Social Security Enlisted to Push Its Own Revision By ROBERT PEAR Published: January 16, 2005 WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 - Over the objections of many of its own employees, the Social Security Administration is gearing up for a major effort to publicize the financial problems of Social Security and to convince the public that private accounts are needed as part of any solution. The agency's plans are set forth in internal documents, including a "tactical plan" for co ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jan 16 16:30:19 PST 2005

322 [lbo-talk] Brakes to Benefits, GOP Backing -- rank: 1000

>Marta Russell wrote: > >>Applying Brakes to Benefits Gets Wide G.O.P. Backing > >But Kerry would have been worse, of course. > >Doug Surely you jest. Marta --

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jan 10 10:19:36 PST 2005

323 [lbo-talk] (no subject) -- rank: 1000

The New York Times January 9, 2005 Applying Brakes to Benefits Gets Wide G.O.P. Backing By ROBERT PEAR ASHINGTON, Jan. 8 - In his budget request to Congress, President Bush will try to impose firm, enforceable limits on the growth of federal benefit programs, and the chairmen of the Senate and House Budget Committees say they strongly supported that effort. Administration officials and Congressional aides said Mr. Bush would also seek cuts in housing assistance for low-income families, freezes o ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jan 9 10:32:07 PST 2005

324 [lbo-talk] Voting: Floor statement Jackson Jr. -- rank: 1000

Our Voting System Needs A New Constitutional Foundation Floor Statement By Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. Thursday, January 6, 2005 "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States." (Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98, 104 (2000) "In the eyes of the [Supreme] Court, democracy is rooted not in the right of the American people to vote and govern but in a set of state-based institutional arrangements for selecting lead ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jan 6 10:51:57 PST 2005

325 [lbo-talk] Boxer to Stand With Conyers -- rank: 1000

Boxer to Stand With Conyers By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Report Thursday 06 January 2005 Sources with Rainbow-PUSH have confirmed that Senator Barbara Boxer of California will stand with House members to protest 'irregularities' during Ohio's presidential election. Details and statements will follow shortly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go to Original Democrats to Force Debate on Ohio Results By Alan Fram The Associated Press Thursday 06 Ja ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jan 6 10:20:30 PST 2005

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

> >>From its inception, social security has been a system of SOCIAL spending by >present-day workers to take care of present-day retirees and the disabled. Nathan, There is also a Survivors benefit for widows and children. The overall safety net provided by Social Security is far beyond what we pay into it. Marta --

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jan 3 16:16:15 PST 2005

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

Doug wrote: >Washington Post - January 1, 2004 > >A Big Push On Social Security >Private Accounts Are Bush Priority > >By Jim VandeHei Washington Post Staff Writer Paul Krugman is already on this, see my post of Jan. 2. There are people on this list who could write much needed op-eds against Bush's plan. Please do so. There is a letter to the editor writing campaign happening now in part of the disability community but that is not nearly enough. Marta --

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jan 3 13:31:43 PST 2005

328 [lbo-talk] Krugman on SS -- rank: 1000

Article Last Updated: Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 11:05:51 AM PST Buying into failure By PAUL KRUGMAN As the Bush administration tries to persuade America to convert Social Security into a giant 401(k), we can learn a lot from other countries that have already gone down that road. Information about other countries' experience with privatization isn't hard to find. For example, the Century Foundation, at www.tcf.org , provides a wide range of links. Yet, aside from giving the Cato Institute and ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jan 2 17:27:39 PST 2005

329 [lbo-talk] Brooks on nature -- rank: 1000

> > >He was spinning hard and fast Friday on the NewsHour to extract the >Bush administration from yet another monumentally revealing and >appalling failure to understand or act. Brooks is writing and talking >fast to hide a repugnant mental paralysis highly reminiscent of this >administration's first reactions to 9/11. > >God, please, please, please rid us of these loathsome fools. What irks me to no end is that Lehrer's Newshour offers us Brooks and no one on the oth ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Jan 1 19:09:29 PST 2005

330 [lbo-talk] Re: Million Dollar Baby gets disability dead wrong -- rank: 1000

> >which one? To my knowledge there is only a PAS law in Oregon (under >future scrutiny of the SC: Oregon vs Ashcroft). In Oregon, under the assisted suicide law, a physician may prescribe a lethal dose of pills but he may not put them in the patients' system. The patient must do that for themselves. One way to distinguish the difference between euthanasia and assisted suicide is to look at the last act - the act without which death would not occur. Using this distinction, if a third p ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Feb 28 15:52:03 PST 2005