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...find this risk too high and cite it in opposing voluntary PRAs. But this is a false argument because nobody who finds PRAs too risky is forced to choose them. Only those who want to accept more risk for more return will choose PRAs, and it should not be government??s role to prohibit that they...
...future to fund benefits. Instead, they are claims on the Treasury that, when redeemed, will have to be financed by raising taxes, borrowing from the public, or reducing benefits or other expenditures. The existence of Trust Fund balances, therefore, does not by itself have any impact on the government??s ability to pay benefits...
...assembling to protest Harvard’s investment in PetroChina, which is a subsidiary of the China National Petroleum Company (CNPC). The CNPC is an oil company almost solely owned by the Chinese government and has been the subject of much student controversy given its involvement with the Sudanese government??s genocidal regime. Students will be rallying in front of Loeb House, where the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR)—which advises the Harvard Corporation on investment decisions—will be meeting to discuss divestment from PetroChina...
...Barney Frank, D-Mass., put it succinctly when he argued that supporters of the Schiavo bill “reject the fundamental precept of American government??namely that it’s a limited government.” Whether one loves or loathes Frank, it is clear that when the famously liberal congressman complains about too much government he likely has a point...
...prospect of the government??s sneaking into the news business with its pre-packaged news segments is a scary one indeed. The government??s under-handed assault on the integrity of the nightly news must cease, either by the president’s own hand or by Congressional action to stop the shameless wasting of tax dollars on subliminal self-promotion, particularly of the mock news-broadcast variety. It’s the responsibility of the government to stay out of journalism and the duty of news broadcasters to keep the government off their turf, lest...