Word: bankrupter
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MORAL REPULSION QUOTIENT: Encouraging marriage in this morally bankrupt world is a good thing. Allowing white stretch limos to park in the Yard...
...been to two National Governors' Association meetings. The theme of both was that federal mandates, especially health care, are going to bankrupt the states. Look at an ironic situation: one federal statute says illegal workers are ineligible for public assistance, but another federal statute says that their children shall be enrolled in the state public school system. That's why we're adding about a quarter-million kids a year -- from all of it, from the birthrate, from the migration from other states...
...Missouri. A $385 million boost in education spending, financed by new . corporate, tobacco and sales taxes, was rejected 65% to 34%. Voters were unmoved by warnings that the school system could go bankrupt...
...President is Frederick Chiluba, 48, chairman of the 300,000-member Zambia Congress of Trade Unions. He campaigned on a platform of democracy and human rights, vowing to replace the bankrupt socialist economy with a free market. At election rallies he demanded of supporters, "Are you ready to sweat for Zambia?" His answer came in the form of 80% of the votes cast...
...jobs] usually never pay more than 28, 30 [thousand dollars] a year. But they'd much rather do that than sit. I don't think anyone honestly expects to collect a single penny they pay into social security. I think everyone acknowledges that it's going to go bankrupt or kaput. The day you want to go collect your money the system will have just gone bankrupt buying a jewelled stereo system for Jane Fonda's walker...