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2004-03-02 Thread joanna bujes
at we, the beneficiaries, will sue all present and future trustees personally for any reduction in our benefits. Peter Hollings -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Ballard Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 6:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [

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2004-03-02 Thread joanna bujes
esday, March 02, 2004 6:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] any comments? --- "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: March 2, 2004/New York TIMES NEWS ANALYSIS Medicare and Social Security Challenge By EDMUND L. ANDREWS In theory, the two giant trust funds

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2004-03-02 Thread joanna bujes
Mike Ballard wrote: President Bush and Republican lawmakers distanced themselves as well, saying that much of the problem could be averted by setting up private savings accounts. A ridiculous proposal which plays to the ignorance of the working class about who actually produces the wealth and wh

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2004-03-02 Thread Eubulides
--- "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > March 2, 2004/New York TIMES > NEWS ANALYSIS > Medicare and Social Security Challenge > By EDMUND L. ANDREWS Doug Orr was on the local NPR affiliate with some other people giving an excellent take on Greenspan's, uh, strate

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2004-03-02 Thread Michael Perelman
ees > personally for any reduction in our benefits. > > Peter Hollings > > -Original Message- > From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Ballard > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 6:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PEN-L] any commen

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2004-03-02 Thread Peter Hollings
ECTED] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] any comments? --- "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > March 2, 2004/New York TIMES > NEWS ANALYSIS > Medicare and Social Security Challenge > By EDMUND L. ANDREWS > > In theory, the two giant trust funds are > accumulating hu

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2004-03-02 Thread Mike Ballard
--- "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > March 2, 2004/New York TIMES > NEWS ANALYSIS > Medicare and Social Security Challenge > By EDMUND L. ANDREWS > > In theory, the two giant trust funds are > accumulating huge surpluses > that can be used to pay for benefits when the baby > boomers re

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2004-03-02 Thread Devine, James
March 2, 2004/New York TIMES NEWS ANALYSIS Medicare and Social Security Challenge By EDMUND L. ANDREWS WASHINGTON, March 1 - When Alan Greenspan urged Congress last week to cut future benefits in Social Security and Medicare, sending elected officials to the barricades, he was if anything unders

Re: Interesting idea, any comments?

2003-09-24 Thread Michael Pollak
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, michael wrote: > Beaudry, Paul and David A. Green. 2003. "Wages and Employment in the > United States and Germany: What Explains the Difference?" American > Economic Review, 93: 3 (June): pp. 573-602. The first thing that would come to my mind is that the German educational s

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2003-09-21 Thread michael
Beaudry, Paul and David A. Green. 2003. "Wages and Employment in the United States and Germany: What Explains the Difference?" American Economic Review, 93: 3 (June): pp. 573-602. Abstract: "Over the last 20 years the wage-education relationships in the United States and Germany have evolved very

[PEN-L:9671] any comments on this claim

1999-07-27 Thread Michael Perelman
Strassmann, Paul A. 1997. The Squandered Computer: Evaluating the Business Alignment of Information Technologies (Information Economics Press). 75: "In 1992 I met with the statistical staff from the Department of Commerce to gain an understanding of how they translated current IT budgets into c