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...shouldn't be asking voters to do their job for them. They are paid, usually decent salaries, to consider complex issues and vote on them. Because they devote all their time to government, they are supposed to understand all the subtleties and complexities of a proposal. By passing the buck to voters in the form of a referendum, they're asking you to do their job for them...
...Ballots are awfully crowded nationwide with this buck-passing. This November, voters in various states will weigh two different marijuana proposals - San Francisco's and a Nevada plan to legalize the possession of less than three ounces - as well as initiatives to reduce public employees' benefits, raise taxes, create a universal health care system, force unions to offer so-called paycheck protection to members and impose term limits...
...organizational-chart, an outfit run by corporate bosses: Dick Cheney from Halliburton, the oil-services giant; Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill from Alcoa; and Commerce Secretary Don Evans from the Denver oil-and-gas outfit Tom Brown. These are capitalists who know how to make a buck and were never ashamed...
...northern Japan, while floods destroyed at least 16 buildings and 10 bridges. Flights were also disrupted MEANWHILE A Bum Seer? In further proof of the untapped potential of the human mind, a blind German psychic says that he can read people's futures by feeling their naked buttocks. Ulf Buck, 39, from Meldorf, near Hamburg, said backsides have lines on them that can be read just like the lines on the palm of a hand...
...organizational-chart, an outfit run by corporate bosses: Dick Cheney from Halliburton, the oil-services giant; Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill from Alcoa; and Commerce Secretary Don Evans from the Denver oil-and-gas outfit Tom Brown. These are capitalists who know how to make a buck and were never ashamed...