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...bankruptcy. Bush's business-like reasoning risks sending world ecology to disaster. No matter how much Bush or I admire the private sector, the United States of America is not a company. Bush's sworn duty is not to preserve the power bills of the American people, but to safeguard the nation. As a result, Bush's decision to leave companies free rein with regards to carbon dioxide emissions is a short-term political judgment--a judgment that is ultimately only disappointing...
...would also disrupt efforts to safeguard the future of Medicare and Social Security. The majority of Bush's "contingency reserve" represents money from the Medicare surplus, which both parties have agreed should be saved to help fulfill future obligations. This money would be useless in responding to any "contingencies," since spending it would be equivalent to raiding the Medicare fund. The Medicare system is already in danger, and there is no reason to impoverish it further...
Asking the people to decide only the ends to be achieved and leaving the means for achieving them to technically skilled bureaucrats offers no escape from this dilemma; for who will supervise the bureaucrats to safeguard the public interest, and who then will watch the watchers? Eventually, the people must be trusted to decide means as well as ends--and the technical and the political will be hopelessly entangled...
...avenues of protest available to Kempthorne, says Allin, the governor is fighting an uphill battle - historically, such arguments don't hold much water. "The state would need to show there were procedural problems in the process - and the process is complicated." The Clinton administration undoubtedly made every effort to safeguard against a legal challenge, adds Allin. "Generally, states and counties who've tried to assert independent authority against this kind of federal government management almost always lose in the courts...
What, exactly, constitutes the best protection against those diseases is a source of raging debate in this country. Many argue that abstinence (and the active teaching of its tenets) is the only safeguard against the scourge of STDs. As this study has demonstrated, however, there appears to be some confusion as to what actual abstinence requires. Sexual health educators argue that withholding information - even if its explicit nature makes us squirm - from teenagers is tantamount to granting them permission to engage in everything but actual intercourse, without understanding the potential consequences...