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...account for obligations to our current retirees--essentially spending the same money twice. In fact, the best estimates of Bush's plan show that it would cause a 20-year period of Social Security bankruptcy. The recent volatility of the stock market should make voters wary of such drastic privatization. Not to mention the fact that Bush's social security plan, like much of his fiscal policy, is unattractive to lower-income individuals who currently would earn lower returns with private accounts...
...That's why I don't think you've seen any drastic changes in terms of who's being elected," he says. "It's [been] a similar voting base since the end of rent control...
Even taking such drastic measures to reduce the costs of housing, many graduate say they still cannot pay their bills with a stipend provided to them buy the University...
...drastic change? Call it an early midlife crisis. As Lookout Records founder Lawrence Livermore so graciously explains in the promotional materials, Green Day aren't just snot-nosed kids anymore. Billie Joe has a wife and two boys, for whom he says he wants to write songs about hope. Well, that's fine, but how does the music sound? With the rough edges rubbed out in production, what's left are a few standout pop tracks. "Church on Sunday" and "Castaway" won't bug your parents and they don't break any new ground on a broad musical scope...
...most vocal opponents of the rollback was Jos? Sarney Filho, the federal Environment Minister and son of the pro-development former President. In Acre, the frontier state where environmental martyr Chico Mendes was assassinated in 1988 by ranchers angered by his efforts to halt deforestation, change is more drastic. The current Governor, Jorge Viana, was elected in 1988 in an explicitly environmentalist campaign. He has since shelved plans from the previous administration to pave 2,000 km of roads in the state. (Viana was chosen by Time in 1999 as one of its regional Leaders for the New Millennium...