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<p>Now, any Guatemalan women can claim spousal abuse and receive asylum and all the goodies that comes with that. When does it end ?</p>

WASHINGTON - The chairman of the House tax-writing committee said Sunday that President Bush's drive to overhaul Social Security should lead to consideration of a value added tax or other ways to fund the entitlement program.

Accounting Problems Found in Major US Economic Indices Contact: Dan Spillane DanSLegal@aol.com Citizens for Corporate Accountability 410 Denny Way #229 Seattle, WA 98122 (206) 860-2858 (Update 3, adds comments) (SEATTLE) 01/06/04 – In a troubling sign that accounting problems have grown beyond corporate balance sheets, two of the main economic gauges used by Wall Street, banks, and in the calculation of Social Security payments have been found to contain serious math problems. The problems were identified in the Consumer Price Index(CPI) and Producer Price Index(PPI) by examining contents of tables provided by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, and comparing...

City Still in Recession Job market remains bleak in first quarter By Randi F. Marshall STAFF WRITER July 3, 2003 New York City's economy remained in recession during the first quarter of 2003 - the ninth straight quarter of contraction. The Gross City Product, a measure of the city's economic activity, fell at an annual rate of 2.7 percent in the first quarter, City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. said yesterday. That's compared with a decline of 4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2002, indicating that perhaps the city's economic contraction is slowly coming to an end. At the...

Paul Harvey And now the rest of the story. Forgotten Facts?? (Conveniently) Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow Black Panther named Alex Rackley needed to die. Rackley was suspected of disloyalty. Rackley was first tied to a chair. Once safely immobilized, his friends tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water on him When they got tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther member Warren Kimbo took Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley's body was later found floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, ...

Shell Game Clinton says U.S. is paying off its debt; it's really just trading in one kind for another. President Bill Clinton isn't exactly lying to you when he says Washington is taking in so much revenue these days that it can wipe out the federal debt by the year 2012. But the accuracy of his forecast does depend on how you define the word "debt." And the way Clinton is defining it does much to mislead Americans about the serious long-term fiscal situation this country faces. The president said last week, in forecasting budget surpluses of $1.3 trillion during ...

Clinton to Seek More Family Planning Funds Report: Clinton to Ask $1 Billion More for Colombia Clinton Seeks More Spending for Computer Security More Spending Sought for Farm Plan Fed Surpluses Could Grow Larger

Talk about reverse descrimination! Our 4 year old granddaughter attends a Pre-K in Port Jefferson. The parents were told that there would be no Halloween or Thanksgiving parties because there are foreign children and religions that do not celebrate these American holidays. I'm sure if American children were in another country, celebrations would not be cancelled to accomodate them. We're allowing these groups to take advantage at our expense. At last glance, this is America. This could have been a learning experience for the other children.

Started By: c.horn Date: Aug 29 1999 12:54PM To be a Liberal,you have to believe that..... ..business's create oppression and governments create prosperity. ..the same public school teacher who can't teach a 4th grader how to read is quailified to teach them about sex. ..trial lawyers are selfless heroes and doctors are overpaid. ..capitol punishment is bad, but abortion on demand is good---in short, you support protecting the guilty and killing the innocent. ..guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than nuclear weapons in the hands of the Red Chinese. ..global temperatures are affected not ...