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...hand, Bush and his supporters are riling up fears about the end of Social Security in order to create interest in their own plan, and yet they cannot justify the linkage between the issues. In his recent State of the Union address, Bush meticulously avoided stating that privatization would fix Social Security’s problems. So why privatize in the first place? On the other hand, this entire debate is founded on certain economic and demographic predictions—low birthrates, low immigration and in particular low growth—while Bush’s plan predicts robust gains...
...symbol of the trust between generations,” and in this we agree with him. Social Security maintains absolute trust because Americans know that only collectively can we guarantee that working America will not starve in its senescence. Social Security certainly needs to fix its balance sheets, but there are many ways to achieve this. Benefits could be reallocated, the tax burden of Social Security could be shifted, or the age at which benefits commence could be changed. These are all feasible options, and Democrats need to show Americans how many possible plans could keep the elderly secure...
Some think it's the plan that needs a fix. Among them is the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), already rankled by a small supervised heroin-injection site in Vancouver and by Canada's plans to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. ONDCP policy analyst David Murray calls the prescription-heroin study a mistake. "There's a large moral-hazard question here about a government undertaking to become the official dispenser of addictive substances," Murray says. Even proponents of such schemes note the ethical land mines. "I don't think anyone is arguing that heroin...
...course, University Hall can always decide to build a five-star dining hall with plenty of seating space in a centrally located student center. But until pigs fly, practical, permanent solutions, not temporary stop-gaps, are needed to fix dining hall overcrowding. Stricter dining hall restrictions are not solutions; they simply pass the buck along to the next farthest house from the Yard. If Quincy follows Adams’ lead and restricts inter-house and first-year dining privileges, overcrowding in its dining hall will go down only to rise in another. Will Lowell be next...
...cheeseburger or a tofu burger (go with the cheeseburger) or takes more than two seconds to mark which food he wants. An even more rare and destructive variant of the Grill Debater is Grillus Debatus Mistakus, who has the audacity to go back and correct his order or fix a possible spelling error in his name. Hey, I know people who’ve signed their sheets with “Beethoven,” or “Tom Brady.” Don’t worry—you’ll get your food...