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Pepper is being disingenuous when he asserts that Social Security "is an insurance program; it isn't welfare." What insurer can pay annuities so disproportionate to the amount of premiums contributed? The New Deal's concept of Social Security was that it should be the last resort against destitution. It was not intended to be a complete retirement program...
...military targets as airbases. The European warheads exist for their deterrent value; they could destroy Soviet cities in retaliation for an attack on Britain or France. Says Colonel Jonathan Alford, deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies: "French and British nuclear weapons are essentially weapons of last resort, designed to make it clear to the Soviets that they cannot risk an attack on London or Paris without suffering the destruction of, say, Moscow and Kiev." But if France or Britain ever fired their nukes first, they would leave themselves open to annihilation...
...petitioners have threatened to withhold their May rent in protest of the construction and place it into an account until the matter has been revolved. But Kalb said that even this last resort may be undermined by a University policy of adding rent onto students' term bills
...WHILE Cardenal's arguments raise serious questions about the viability of the Sandinista regime, counterrevolution is not necessary--yet. Overthrowing the Sandinistas must be seen as a policy of last resort, to be contemplated only after all other means of change have been attempted. For despite the authoritarian nature of the regime, it is a ten-fold improvement over Somoza and Co.: great strides have been made in education and literacy and torture is no longer a fact of life...
...when 300 ranking Socialists from 70 countries converged on the Portuguese resort of Albufeira last week, the focus was less on their ample advice for world leaders than on the movement's considerable problems. In the past 19 months, five European Socialist parties, including West Germany's, have lost their places in government coalitions. Among those that remain in power, France's is confronted with major economic difficulties and Spain's faces high unemployment. Meanwhile, the Socialist International has become riven by internal squabbles, mostly centering on the contentious role played by its president, former West...