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...budget proposals, which are supposed to pump $2.7 trillion into Social Security during the next 15 years, would close less than half the initial gap. Further reforms would be needed to keep revenues in balance with payouts after 2034. Also, the present system contains some glaring inequities that ought to be corrected--at the cost of making the fiscal gap even wider. No one proposal will probably come near to filling it. What is needed, in my opinion, is a comprehensive program, summarized by these commands...
...Social Security taxes will eventually no longer cover. But who should invest how much of the system's money? Clinton's proposal to have the government do the investing is a poor second best--and not only because of the danger of political manipulation of business. More fundamentally, individuals ought to have some say in how to invest money that the government taxes away from them. Redirecting some Social Security money into individual investment accounts would have social benefits too. It would give many of the 60% of Americans who have yet to share in the stock market boom...
Finally, Jackson ought to make a guest appearance on the WWF's "Monday Night Raw." The animosity between star wrestler Steve Austin and owner Vince McMahon threatens to tear the league apart. The arbitration of a great leader is sorely needed and I can think of no better candidate to touch the hearts of these battling titans than the Reverend...
...outrage and grief naturally dispose us to seek something to blame and, if possible, to eradicate it with all the force and vengeance we can muster. But we ought to pause before we let the axe of our sorrow strike a blow at the trunk of our constitution...
...holy and frugal St. Francis believed that his order of monks ought to survive by begging. In a way, this pious tradition is preserved by a show that is now on view at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Treasury of Saint Francis of Assisi" comprises some 70 works of art--paintings, sculpture, textiles, manuscripts and metalwork--drawn in part from the 13th century tesoro, or museum, of the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi, Italy. Its main purpose is to draw attention to the disaster that struck the great pilgrimage center in September 1997, when...