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...else (she has spoken of "the need for a force to protect our motherland from breaking up"), Megawati has placed on the back burner anything that might upset the TNI, the nation's guardian?like extracting it from politics and business and making it adhere strictly to human rights. "Reform is not solely the TNI's responsibility," says military analyst Kusnanto Anggoro. "Civilians, too, must decide what kind of changes it should undergo. The military says, 'OK, we'll obey your rules. But you have to decide what the rules...
...Indonesians are starting to like their military better, the TNI still has plenty of room for improvement. Aceh is just one of many areas in which the TNI needs to show it is willing to change. Unless the country's political leaders take measures to kick start the stalled reform process, the only rules the military will obey will continue to be their...
...cited pieces of legal scholarship supporting the rights of third parties. I am almost certainly the biggest supporter of third parties on the commission. In the fall of 2000, during the dispute over which candidate, John Hagelin or Pat Buchanan, was entitled to government funds owed the Reform Party’s nominee, I was the strongest voice on the FEC for a quick resolution that would get the funds to the party’s nominee in time to be of use in the general election. Since joining the commission in June, 2000, I have led the fight against...
Because this reform diverts money from the payroll taxes that support today’s retirees, it will require funding. But it is affordable. The bipartisan President’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security developed three models for using retirement accounts to keep Social Security solvent. The cost of reform ranges from $400 billion to $1.1 trillion from now until sometime between 2028 and 2043, depending on the model. These estimates are well within the projected budget surplus for the next 10 years alone, which the Office of Management and Budget now puts at $2.4 trillion?...
...asking whether Social Security can be saved despite tax cuts misses the point. Rather, the surpluses needed to reform Social Security will arise largely from the economic growth created by Bush?...