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Last week the government announced that it will have a $50 billion budget surplus. The pols immediately began arguing over how best to spend it. How often do we get our hands on a windfall like this? Here are some ways we could just blow...
...President said in his State of the Union address last January that he was ready to take on the largest, most popular and most politically treacherous social program ever devised. His statement was easily written off as a blocking tactic aimed at stopping Republicans from plowing the budget surplus (now projected to be as high as $75 billion this year alone) into tax cuts. But last week, in the first of four promised forums on Social Security, Clinton proved he was serious by opening the door a crack to the radical--and, to Democratic traditionalists, heretical--idea of "privatizing...
...missed seeing in-depth coverage of the overall economic situation there. Business is carried out in the name of free and fair competition, but that requires a balance of power, and there is no such balance. There is virtually no protection for Africans against the imported goods and surplus produce from Europe that are being dumped on the market. For many Africans, life is solely a matter of survival and freedom of speech has very little meaning. KJELL-ERIK NORDLIE Vallset, Norway...
Fact is, it ain't too clean, it ain't too pretty, and it certainly doesn't have anything in surplus except holes. The biggest hole is in Social Security. That's what the Government has essentially been borrowing from to balance the budget. To create economic surplus, we are collectively trading on our future...
...fact, with its shaky foundation built on pipe-dream funds, the current Federal Budget "surplus" seems less like my stellar apartment find, and more like the leftovers...