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...them, while ignoring government waste...and the thousands of subcontracters that are unaccountable and unscrutinized by the taxpayer,” said Carla A. Howell, president of the small government group. Asked to cite specific wasteful items, Howell described “exorbitant government pensions and fake reform of police detail” as only “the tip of the trash heap.” “Governor Patrick pretends to have finally addressed this egregious waste, but it remains wasteful, almost as wasteful as before,” said Howell. “This measure doesn?...
...fall in output. Then in 2007 severe flooding delivered another blow to the agriculture sector; by this year, the country's shortfall of grain was the worst since 2001. The regime's leadership "would rather have a proportion of their population starve to death" than pursue reform, says Nicholas Eberstadt, a North Korea expert at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. Pyongyang believes market reform "would risk ideological and cultural infiltration, which is how they see the Soviet system going down...
...seem like there will be a comprehensive piece of legislation [on immigration] in the near future,” said Cristina Rodriguez of the NYU School of Law. “There is too much to be dealt with in Congress right now. We might see piecemeal reform, though, before comprehensive reform. Unfortunately, if we had had a more credible president in office in the last few years, we might have seen something comprehensive go through. Immigration reform, in this sense, is a casualty of the Iraq War.” Many fellows noted that they reached new levels...
...strait relations between Taiwan and China would be adversely affected as well. This is not to say, however, that the United States government should give Beijing a blank check to conduct its affairs as it wishes. We are extremely concerned about several issues where further Sino-American cooperation and reform from Beijing can help to ease international tensions and improve the lives of millions of people. We acknowledge, as Washington’s critics often point out, that American foreign policy is not perfect, but we believe that a healthy respect for the national interest can coexist with a policy...
...have been convinced. "I don't believe this bill is the right medicine to cure the disease," says Rep. Jim Matheson, a Utah Democrat who co-chairs the Blue Dogs. "The Senate version is even worse. It's larded up with more debt and doesn't include long-term reform language that would prevent this kind of crisis from happening again." Matheson, who voted against the first bill, remains a solid...