King Con: Bush's Social Security Flim Flam

King Con: Bush's Social Security Flim-Flam

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• The Golden Fleece: Neo-Con Artists Scam Social Security

• Tug of War

• Race, Health and Wealth

• College Costs

• A Tropical Depression

• February's Letters

• February's Poetry

• Nobody Asked Me, But...

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Social Security isn’t broken, but Washington is full of reformers looking to fix it.

Some saw the election of George W. Bush as providing him with a mandate to pursue his reactionary policies at home and abroad. Certainly this is neither the view of the tens of millions who voted against him, nor is it an opinion shared around the world.

There is mounting evidence that the widening economic gap between the rich and the poor is largely responsible for the differences in health between the rich and the poor.

College degrees are an increasingly class based commodity. Simultaneous increases in the costs of higher education and cuts in federal financial aid programs are making college unaffordable for all Americans not in high-income brackets.

It was mid-afternoon in Tsimshatsui. It was 1976 and I was an air courier, staying in the Astor Hotel in the less expensive tourist section of Hong Kong, then still a British colony. The Astor was known in Chinese as "Langung Chowdin" or "White Palace Hotel."