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No Child Left Behind, SHAM--Greg Palast
Bush favors high levels of mercury
Social Security under attack
SS UNDOING BY BUSH, AARP Warns
SOCIAL SECURITY: Bush's Plan to Fund Wall Street
Hydrogen Economy, Don't Hold Your Breath

SS UNDOING BY BUSH, AARP Warns

Latest Social Security Proposal (6/05)

AARP article, June 05

Thomas N. Bethell 

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The indexing plan Bush embraced at his April 28th press conference would preserve the present defined benefit approach only for the low wage workers—those currently earning less than $20,000.  For the remaining 70% the system would be flipped upside down:  the more you earn and pay in the more your benefits are cut.

 

The lowest workers would continue to have their future benefits linked to overall increase in wages; however, the others would have their future benefit level linked to price increases.  Prices tend over time to rise about 2% slower than wages for a given worker.  For a medium wage worker entering the workforce now (retiring in 2055), their projected benefits would drop by 66%, higher earners 87% 

 

Projected shortfall of 70% in 75 years is well beyond the range of secure projection. 

 

There are other options to covering the projected shortfall than cutting benefits:

1).  Lifting the cap on taxable income (now set at $90,000) to $150,000 would affect 6% of the taxpayers and would cut 40% of the projected shortfall. 

2).  Keeping the estate tax on those over $7,000,000 would affect less than 1% of all estates but would trim shortfall by nearly 30%. 

 

Robert Ball, former Social Security Commissioner says benefits don’t need to be cut because Congress in 1983 provided cuts by gradually increasing the retirement age, and by the steadily increasing Medicare Part B premiums which are deducted from the social security check.  Ball believes that long-term solvency can be maintained with modest revenue increases alone.

 

 

More Bush Cuts

AARP Bulletin 3/05

Tim Gray

 

 

Bright spots are scares in the $2.57 trillion budget proposal, which challenges Congress to curb spending while keeping Bush’s tax cuts in place.  The October budget is attempting to reduce the next fiscal’s year deficit to only $427 billion. 

Adult literacy by 2/3

Amtrak by 70%

Energy assistance for low income 10%

Housing

Elderly cut 25% from 2002 level

Disabled by 50%, and no new construction

Low-rent public housing unspecified percentage

Loans for building and restoring rental housing for the poor in rural areas 75%

Independent living under the Older American Act (such as Meals on Wheels & Family Caregiver Support) would be frozen to the 2002 level.

Jobs, funding cuts for the employment program that provides part-time, minimum-wage job opportunities for low-income older people.

Medicare, cut $60 billion over the next 10 years

Medical research, cut 12% especially hitting preventive health programs

Nutrition, over the next 10 years 200-000 to 300,000 would lose aid

Veterans’ drug costs, double co-pay and establish annual enrollment of $250

 

 

TIBITS

 

Frequent-flier miles are estimate at $700 billion (14 trillion air miles); however, at the current rate of redemption, it would take 25 years to use those already accumulated.  Moreover, such credit cards cost an average of $51 in annual fees and charge 6% higher interest. 

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To Bush page on ADULT cartoon site
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To Bush page on ADULT cartoon site

 

 

The Truth About Drug Companies by Marcia Angell, MD.  Absolutely the best book on profits and drugs for it reveals—without being technical and tedious--more about the workings of the profit system and its relationship to government than all others—and it’s available on audio CD. (1-20)

 

          The skeptic is one who judges all things according to the evidence.  Many things are widely affirmed by the common herd in a degree well beyond what the evidence supports.  The humanistic skeptic applies a second measure, that of  harm resulting from such beliefs.  Issues of economics and politics, of religion, quackery, and of psychology and personal behavior top our list.   Education and scientific psychology are gateways to the following the dictates of reason.

 

 

CARTOONS

Over 30 assorted cartoons

6 Bush cartoons

Links to best on web of bush cartoons, jokes and animation

Danish cartoons that offend Moslems

More Danish Moslems

Moslems cartoons on Jews

More Moslems cartoons plus photos

Page of links including political cartoons

Cartoon gallery, latest ones

Another California Skeptic’s collection—huge, biting, for adults

Her collection of Bush Cartoons

 

SATIRE HUMOR

One act play on Bush’s tax cut—Al Franken

Brotherhood of religions—the Nation

Letters from Earth, Mark Twain at his best

5 humorous blasts at religion—Mark Twain

Eros & Zeus—Lucian

Zeus & the modern thinking Greeks—Lucian

The damned human race—Mark Twain

Zeus the pedophile—Lucian

Doc Laura, Old Testament morality

 

 

OFF SITE CARTOONS

PILLSBURY DOUGH BOY

A FUN COLLECTION

DAN COLLINS OF HUSTLER MAGAZINE

EXCELLENT COLLECTION OF UNDERGROUND COMICS

A FUN COLLECTION

POLITICAL & SOCIAL GEMS—Mark Froce

SEXUALLY ORIENTED COLLECTION

A FUN COLLECTION

EXCELLENT MUSICAL CARTOONS—JibJab

A FUN COLLECTION

LUNACY TOONS—outrageous, quality sounds

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