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Chiles privatized pensions spell worker hardship
February 11, 2005NewsAnalysis As the Bush administration pushes to privatize Social Security, many people are looking at countries where state-funded pensions have been privatized. One of them is Chile. President Bush lauded Chile’s privatized social security system as...
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Red states feeling blue over attack on Social Security
February 11, 2005When President Bush took his scheme to privatize Social Security on the road last week he came face to face with “red state” reality. “The president is trying to destroy the social safety net of our...
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Bush budget assailed as war on people
February 11, 2005WASHINGTON — Outraged protests greeted President George W. Bush’s $2.57 trillion budget proposal, with many calling it a fraudulent, radical plan to starve spending on human needs while lavishing billions on the “greedy.” The 2006 budget...
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Pablo Neruda: One poet, many lessons
February 4, 2005OPINION“As the first bullets ripped into the guitars of Spain, when blood instead of music gushed out of them, my poetry stopped dead like a ghost in the streets of human anguish and a rush of...
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Dont take away Social Security
February 4, 2005OPINIONAfter reading a column in her local paper, the Albuquerque Journal, calling Bush’s Social Security privatization plan “a step in the right direction,” PWW reader Rose Shaw didn’t just get mad – she wrote a response!...
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