Word: burdens
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Bush's victory is intellectual as well as political. This bill reflects an extraordinary, even radical shift of the tax burden from the rich to the middle class. And in the weeks leading up to the bill's passage, Bush made a remarkably detailed and sophisticated case for it, most notably in Albuquerque, N.M., on May 12. Detailed, sophisticated and wrong--which makes his victory all the more impressive...
...next problem the feds could help states with is Medicaid. The program is the fastest growing financial burden for states, with medical costs skyrocketing, particularly for prescription drugs. Most of the Democratic candidates have devised plans to try to cover people without health insurance, but none have looked at helping Medicaid. For a decade now, while Congress and the White House have been stalling on this issue, the states have been using Medicaid in innovative ways to expand coverage, increasing the number of citizens eligible for the program. But just when more people need it, 49 state governments have...
...strategy for dealing with Iran. But the debate in Washington, and allied capitals, is likely to heat up. Nobody, at this stage, is advocating a direct U.S. invasion: Iran is a far larger and more powerful adversary than Iraq. And Washington would likely be forced to shoulder such a burden alone - the British, for example, have made clear they'd have no part in such an enterprise. So, the hawkish option is to press for Iran's diplomatic isolation, destabilize the country through covert operations and directly back an armed uprising led by exile groups such as the Iraq-based...
...women interested in sports at all. It's an escape for most men. It offers a chance for men to reconnect with their manliness (or boyishness) with other men, and cast off the domestic shackles for a short time, and to have the women come along can be a burden at times." Ah, those domestic shackles. No doubt a concern for men's mental health is what's really keeping the Augusta Golf Club from admitting women...
...what the war in Iraq is not about. "It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil," he says. If it sounds as though he's protesting too much, it's because the Bush Administration is up against a prevailing world view that the burden of proof is on the U.S. to show that it won't exploit Iraq's underground riches. Hours after the invasion began, U.S. forces had seized two offshore terminals that can transfer 2 million bbl. daily to tankers. They secured the southern Rumaila oil field so swiftly that Saddam Hussein...