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...addition to its enormous upfront price tag, privatization fails on a number of other grounds. For instance, despite conservative rants about the inefficiency of government programs, only one percent of the money going into Social Security is currently spent on administration fees. This figure is in comparison to the 15 to 20 percent companies in Chile are charging their clients to maintain retirement accounts in the country’s privatized system. Moreover, despite its imperfections, the current system provides something privatization cannot: reliability. Just as stock markets rocket up, they also tumble down, often for years at a time...
Blunt observations like this are stock in trade for Menendez. Although she aspires to be a public figure, she can be disarmingly transparent. For one thing, she is very upfront about her ambitions...
...find overwhelming at the mall is how utterly blatant American consumerism is. The mall doesn’t even pretend it is about necessity items. And maybe we should be grateful for that: Your local mall (that is probably now owned and renamed by a giant corporation) is very upfront about its mission. It exists to glorify consumerism—and to include you in that project. So while I wove in and out of oncoming foot traffic making mental lists of what I “refuse to buy,” “kind of need?...
...accompaniment of his band, raps well about how he gets all of the attention, and the band raps poorly about how they get no attention. The worst comes when the band dons gleaming white suits for a Boyz II Men-like harmonizing bit, with the fat D12 member upfront, breast coverage removed from his outfit. This video countered our theory that its Roman popularity might just come out of not understanding the lyrics, but despite our hatred for it, we wouldn’t change the channel when it came...
...Opposition on Sept. 6 by announcing a $A1.8 billion package that allowed him to say: "We will go to this election being a better friend to Medicare." Like Labor, the Government will reward doctors who bulk bill. But it will also give more money back to patients charged upfront for their consultation. It's saying, in effect: bulk billing is important, but so is the right of doctors to charge above the standard fee when they see fit. Having abandoned plans to euthanize it, the Coalition is shaping Medicare as less a universal program than a safety net for lowish...