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...Bush continues to pull the strings as delicately as the U.S. has done in the recent past, the game won't degenerate into a replay of World Wars I and II. Compared to the previous contenders, both sides have reasons to be cautious. China cannot risk its trade surplus with the U.S., and Washington must speak softly lest Beijing dump its vast reserves on the market, driving down the value of the dollar. The U.S. needs China to constrain North Korea's nuclear ambitions, and China needs the U.S. as a counterweight against a resurgent Russia...
...parents typically don't pay enough in taxes to cover schooling. Hospitals write off the cost of medical services for undocumented immigrants. The bigger picture is more muddled. Economists at Rand have found wide variances in analyses of the costs to taxpayers of providing services to immigrants, from a "surplus" of $1,400 per immigrant to a "deficit" of $1,600. The majority of immigrants, in fact, pay taxes, even the undocumented (via fake Social Security and taxpayer IDs). Through 2002, illegals paid an estimated $463 billion into Social Security. Their takeout: almost nothing...
...doctors and nurses to countries lacking medical personnel. Jack Kingston, a Republican congressman from Georgia, has put out what he's called the American Renewal Project, an eight-point plan that calls for a commission to recommend spending cuts to balance the budget and stop spending the Social Security surplus. The Republican Study Committee, a group of the most conservative House members, has released a plan to balance the budget in the next five years, although it would require politically difficult cuts in Medicare and Medicaid...
...BILLION China's foreign-currency reserves, which surpassed Japan's as the world's largest $202 BILLION China's 2005 trade surplus with the U.S., a record high that is partly fueled by Beijing's booming reserves...
...billion China's 2005 trade surplus with the U.S., a record high that is partly fueled by Beijing's booming reserves...