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...same Mark Latham but I'm in a new role." All my life. "I love the larrikin Australian role, but no more crudity." New politics. "Modern politics is broken, and we need to fix it." Democracy in the raw. "If in doubt, let's have more democracy, more direct voting, more public participation." Town-hall style meetings. Possum Magic. "If we all read books to our infant children, they will be reading themselves by the time they go to school." What did you learn today? "Quality teaching is a passport out of poverty." "You don't need a safety...
...Direct investment Allowing Social Security to invest its assets directly in stocks, last proposed under President Clinton, could improve the system's meager returns. But it is risky and ripe for abuse. Another plan, proposed by Boston University professor Laurence Kotlikoff, would create private accounts but centralize the investing. Everyone would be invested in the same thing: a global, market-weighted index fund run by the government, not Wall Street. Because the fund would track the market, the risks of making poor investment choices would be minimized...
...Encourage Savings. Private accounts reinforce a mind-set of saving. When you see a direct connection between what you put in now and how it can grow in the future, you may be motivated to save more elsewhere...
Missing entirely from the speech was any direct reference to the events transpiring in Iraq. Instead, Bush made a single allusion to the conflict, saying “Our country has accepted obligations that are difficult to fulfill and would be dishonorable to abandon.” Difficult is an understatement. As of Friday, 1,372 American soldiers have died and at least 10,502 have been wounded. Meanwhile, this coming Sunday, Iraqis are poised to hold an historic—if uncertain—election to pick a 275-member National Assembly. This will likely be the final chance...
...were pretty mild; they did not, for example, lead to the removal of chastened officials. Even so, that year Beijing began insisting that provincial Party secretaries also become the top leaders of their local parliaments. Since 2002, Hu has increased the number of provincial People's Congresses under such direct Party control from nine to 24. "The Party wanted to block the emergence of independent legislatures," says a Beijing scholar who advises People's Congresses...