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Some inevitably find this risk too high and cite it in opposing voluntary PRAs. But this is a false argument because nobody who finds PRAs too risky is forced to choose them. Only those who want to accept more risk for more return will choose PRAs, and it should not be government’s role to prohibit that they...
There are some who would argue that we should privatize Social Security not because of solvency issues, but because private accounts are inherently superior to the current system. We believe that the massive transition costs outlined above are enough reason to reject this argument. But more importantly, privatization destroys the goal of Social Security: confidence in retirement. Even if the average worker would benefit from private accounts (which may or may not happen), there will be many, many workers whose private accounts would under perform, costing them thousands in retirement. Social Security is meant to be a guaranteed retirement foundation...
There is little argument that this genocide must be stopped. Harvard currently has upwards of $4 million invested in PetroChina, and it should divest entirely from the company. This would send the message to the world that Harvard will not support the CNPC and its funding of murder...
...swift. Even as the U.S. continued its great debate over when to remove a feeding tube, the Vatican revealed the Pope was on one. Terri Schiavo, once a private, ordinary woman, had no choice about whether her death would be a passion play for an audience caught in an argument over when life begins and ends. The Pope, a very public and extraordinary man, made sure his message was clear: that life is God's alone to give--and to take...
Some opponents of assisted suicide answer such despair with an argument that is insightful or cunningly circular, depending on your view, insisting that patients like Sullivan are depressed, and as such, don't qualify for suicide medication under the law. "If they are demoralized, we should take care of them, not overdose them," says Portland psychiatrist Gregory Hamilton. But the line between clinical and situational depression often gets blurred. "One doctor told me to take two antidepressants so I could have a Pollyanna attitude," Sullivan scoffs...