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...critical social programs for the poor in order to sustain the Bush administration’s foolhardy tax cuts. The abrupt pause—debate is scheduled to resume after Veteran’s Day—came after moderate Republicans rebelled over proposals to enable drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and to severely cut social programs, including food stamps and Medicaid. These funding cuts hurt the neediest among us; moreover, these cuts lock the poor into poverty and solidify class stratification in the United States. Raising Medicaid co-payments and premiums for those living just above...
Imagine meeting the mailman in your black Arctic Tight spandex and listening to him giggle while reading your address. Think of having to wait in shame as your Mac technician chuckles with his colleagues about your personal information. Consider the poor private school children who don’t yet know long division, but who are mocked on the playground for living on “Prostitute Street.” It’s enough to make you want to spend a lot of money, which, fortunately, is possible for these residents of the highest tax bracket. Things have...
...Efforts to push regional free trade agreements seem to be faring better than the grand vision of a united economic zone from the Arctic Circle to Argentina's Tierra del Fuego. There is a push for an Andean free trade agreement involving Columbia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, and the U.S. Congress recently ratified the Central American Free Trade Agreement. Indeed, U.S. officials sought to play down the disputes over trade. "This is not a meeting just about trade," said Assistant Secretary of State Tom Shannon. "This is about the leaders of the American countries who have come together to talk...
...lives.We might even contentedly take pride in giving to charity every year, being the “good person” within the system, working at one of the “good firms” that has a minority recruitment program and doesn’t kill arctic seals. But at the end of the day, most of us are going to be walking out of the air-conditioned office, zipping home in the chic sedan, living comfortably while others in this country struggle to put dinner on the table. I don’t care if you vote...
...human activity, are becoming ever more apparent. Even if it turns out that warmer temperatures do not strengthen tropical storms, we need only look north to find alarming signs of warming trends. Many studies document melting polar ice caps, thinning permafrost and rising sea and air temperatures in the Arctic, which threaten the livelihood of people native to the region. Like so many helpless Gulf Coast residents, these people will suffer because of a profound denial of responsibility. Climate change is a global problem that needs a global solution. David G. Wright Sturbridge, Massachusetts...