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...themselves physically with weight training, military-style drills and obstacle-course runs. To acquaint them with the experience of famine, their vegetarian diet was strictly rationed. Daily life was a harsh mix of work and Bible study. Men labored at construction around the compound, while modestly dressed women did household chores and schooled the children, who were rarely taken off the grounds. Television was forbidden, and children's birthdays were never celebrated. In caustic monologues, Koresh would lead his zealots through the Scripture in sessions that could last far into the night. To cover expenses, cult members donated their paychecks...
...these claims true? In a time of fiscal crisis (when the President says government must "demonstrate that we can be as frugal as any household"), the answers had better be clear, for Clinton has proposed a $10 billion increase in Head Start's budget authority over four years, the single largest requested rise for any government program and one that accounts for about 10% of all the new "investment" spending Clinton plans during his term...
Attempting to extend the rhetoric of the household to the polity as a whole often proves counterproductive. We need to avoid feudalistic cosseting and to start examining different reproductive choices and strategies. We must be more supportive of the choices that career-primary individuals make, even if decisions do not factor children into the equation...
That's because household employees are part of a pool of unskilled workers who are limited to 10,000 permanent visas a year, creating a wait of 10 years or more before a nanny or other domestic can become a legal resident. Senator Edward Kennedy said he would decide after a Commission on Immigration Reform hearing this week whether to draft a bill that would ease visa quotas to allow more nannies and other household workers to remain in the country...
...that Chelsea's baby- sitting arrangements were strictly by the book. But among the legions of high-powered Friends of Bill and Friends of Hillary, there are undoubtedly dozens who have been less scrupulous. Recent Census Bureau and IRS data suggest that only 1 in 4 people who employ household help bothers to pay Social Security taxes. Given the natural reluctance to confide in government agents, the real figure is probably much lower...