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The Idiot s Guide To Family Lawyer Havering Explained

2022-08-11T23:16:39Z

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Wrong on Timetables

2007-04-23T21:59:22Z

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|author=William Kristol
|source=The Weekly Standard
|date=March 23, 2007
|url=http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/443halpk.asp
|quote="The Maliki government could falter. But it need not, if we do not. Unfortunately, four years of setbacks have conditioned Americans to believe that any progress must be ephemeral. If the Democrats get their way and Gen. Petraeus is undermined in Congress, the progress may indeed prove short-lived. But it's time to stop thinking so hard about how to lose, and to think instead about how to reinforce and exploit the success we have begun to achieve."
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{{additional_author|Frederick W. Kagan}}

{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|Coalition troops should pull out|against}}

The 'Genocide Olympics'

2007-04-23T21:57:10Z

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|author=Ronan Farrow
|source=The Wall Street Journal
|date=March 28, 2007
|url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117505109799351409.html
|quote="Beijing is uniquely positioned to put a stop to the slaughter, yet they have so far been unabashed in their refusal to do so. But there is now one thing that China may hold more dear than their unfettered access to Sudanese oil: their successful staging of the 2008 Summer Olympics. That desire may provide a lone point of leverage with a country that has otherwise been impervious to all criticism."
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{{additional_author|Mia Farrow}}

{{opinion|Darfur conflict|China should pressure the Sudan to end the conflict|for}}

Reform That Has Really Paid Off

2007-04-23T21:56:12Z

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|author=Norman J. Ornstein
|source=The Washington Post
|date=April 1, 2007
|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/30/AR2007033002070.html
|quote="We thought the law would produce a flowering of grass-roots party activity, a resurgence of small donors and a reduction in the sale of access to elected officials in return for campaign funds -- and a decrease in the shakedowns of donors that this practice induced. But we thought it would take several election cycles for the changes to take root. Instead this happened immediately."
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{{additional_author|Anthony Corrado}}

{{opinion|Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act|Act should be repealed|against}}

Africa's Last Best Chance

2007-04-23T21:55:33Z

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|author=Richard Holbrooke
|source=The Wall Street Journal
|date=February 15, 2007
|url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117150866048809457.html
|quote="Two weeks ago the administration proposed ending subsidies for 80,000 wealthy farmers, substituting trade-distorting subsidies with cash payments to farmers, and trimming traditional agriculture programs by $4.5 billion over the next decade. These proposals, if approved, would directly benefit some of the poorest people on earth, save lives and ultimately reduce American foreign aid"
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{{additional_author|Stuart Eizenstat}}

{{opinion|Doha round|Wealthy countries should cut farm subsidies|for}}

Not too Late to Curb Dear Leader

2007-04-23T21:54:33Z

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|author=Dan Blumenthal
|source=The Weekly Standard
|date=February 5, 2007
|url=http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/246vdcgk.asp
|quote="First, instead of backing off, the president should authorize the imposition of further financial sanctions on the North. He should also quietly tell Beijing that, unless it is willing to clean its own house, the U.S. government will follow the money trail of North Korea's counterfeiting and smuggling wherever it leads, even if this means going after banks, front companies, and individuals in China."
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{{additional_author|Aaron Friedberg}}

{{opinion|North Korean nuclear crisis|China should pressure North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions|for}}
{{opinion|North Korean nuclear crisis|Economic sanctions should be placed on North Korea|for}}

Congress must stop an attack on Iran

2007-04-23T21:52:52Z

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|author=Leonard Weiss
|source=Los Angeles Times
|date=February 5, 2007
|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-weiss5feb05,0,4991100.story
|quote="Iran is still years away from being a nuclear threat, and our experience with "preventive war" in Iraq should teach us a thing or two. Launching another such war without international approval would leave us even more politically isolated and militarily overstretched."
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{{additional_author|Larry Diamond}}

{{opinion|Iranian nuclear crisis|United States should attack Iran|against}}

To Help Iraq, Let It Fend for Itself

2007-04-23T21:51:42Z

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|author=Mark Brzezinski
|source=The Boston Globe
|date=February 6, 2007
|url=http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/02/06/getting_to_yes_on_iran/
|quote="For the last three decades, convoluted historical grievances, emotional barriers, and frequent and mutual misunderstandings have obstructed a rational relationship between two states that often share many interests in common. In one of the paradoxes of the Middle East, the theocratic states' position today is closer to the bipartisan Baker-Hamilton report then is the Bush administration."
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{{additional_author|Ray Takeyh}}

{{opinion|Iranian nuclear crisis|United States should negotiate with Iran|for}}

The Iran Option That Isn't on the Table

2007-04-23T21:49:12Z

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|author=Vali Nasr
|source=The Washington Post
|date=February 8, 2007
|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/07/AR2007020702136.html
|quote="Paradoxically, to liberalize the theocratic state, the United States would do better to shelve its containment strategy and embark on a policy of unconditional dialogue and sanctions relief. A reduced American threat would deprive the hard-liners of the conflict they need to justify their concentration of power. In the meantime, as Iran became assimilated into the global economy, the regime's influence would inevitably yield to the private sector, with its demands for accountability and reform."
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{{additional_author|Ray Takeyh}}

{{opinion|Iranian nuclear crisis|United States should negotiate with Iran|for}}
{{opinion|Iranian nuclear crisis|Economic sanctions should be imposed on Iran|against}}

How to Make the Poor Poorer

2007-04-23T21:48:29Z

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|author=Gary Becker
|source=The Wall Street Journal
|date=January 26, 2007
|url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116978492591488718.html
|quote="Although some workers benefit -- those who were paid the old minimum wage but are worth the new, higher one to the employers -- others are pushed into unemployment, the underground economy or crime. The losers are therefore likely to lose more than the gainers gain; they are also likely to be poorer people."
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{{additional_author|Richard Posner}}

{{opinion|Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007|Act should be passed|against}}

All We Are Saying... Is Give Petraeus a Chance

2007-04-23T21:47:50Z

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|author=Frederick W. Kagan
|source=The Weekly Standard
|date=January 22, 2007
|url=http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/194yihpa.asp
|quote="The fact is that President Bush has, as he was widely and correctly urged to do, changed strategy. He's put a new commander, General Petraeus, in charge. Petraeus thinks the new plan can work, with the support of additional troops. He'll be confirmed by the Senate and sent out to the theater this week. Members of Congress should ask themselves, "What can we do to help Petraeus succeed?""
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{{additional_author|William Kristol}}

{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|United States should increase troop levels|for}}

It's Up To Bush

2007-04-23T21:46:27Z

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|author=Robert Kagan
|source=The Weekly Standard
|date=December 8, 2006
|url=http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/055vtxwr.asp
|quote="Of the many disappointments of the Iraq Study Group's report, none is greater than the failure
(or was it unwillingness?) to offer any remotely plausible suggestions for bringing security and stability to significant parts of Iraq. The Baker group instead chose to entertain the fantasy that political reconciliation in Iraq can take place in the absence of basic security for the average Iraqi."
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{{additional_author|William Kristol}}

{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|Iraq Study Group's recommendations should be followed|against}}
{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|United States should increase troop levels|for}}

Baker's Sellout Plan

2007-04-23T21:45:51Z

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|author=Dick Morris
|source=New York Post
|date=November 29, 2006
|url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/11292006/postopinion/opedcolumnists/bakers_sellout_plan_opedcolumnists_dick_morris__eileen_mcgann.htm
|quote="Of course, Baker may seek and Iran may offer public assurances that it won't develop nuclear weapons - the same worthless assurances it now passes out to the entire world. What will have changed is that America and Britain will be so engaged with Iran that they can't and won't bomb or even impose tough sanctions. In short, we can only get Iran's help on Iraq if we let Tehran get the bomb."
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{{additional_author|Eileen McGann}}

{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|United States should negotiate with Iran|against}}

Surrender as 'Realism'

2007-04-23T21:45:21Z

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|author=Robert Kagan
|source=The Weekly Standard
|date=November 22, 2006
|url=http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/993eumeb.asp
|quote="What our adversaries in the Middle East want from us is very simple: They want us out. Unless we are prepared to withdraw, not just from Iraq but from the entire region, and from elsewhere as well, we had better start figuring out how to pursue effectively--realistically--our interests and goals. This is true American realism. All the rest is a fancy way of justifying surrender."
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{{additional_author|William Kristol}}

{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|Coalition troops should pull out|against}}
{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|United States should negotiate with Iran|against}}
{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|United States should negotiate with Syria|against}}

Time for a Heavier Footprint

2007-04-23T21:44:00Z

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|author=Frederick W. Kagan
|source=The Weekly Standard
|date=November 20, 2006
|url=http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/972zwkgm.asp
|quote="When U.S. forces in adequate numbers, together with Iraqi troops, cleared Tal Afar, Mosul, Falluja, Sadr City, and Najaf in 2004 and 2005, levels of violence in those areas dropped enormously. Economic activity picked up. Political leaders, rather than militia commanders, took charge. We know what success looks like, and we know what it demands--more U.S. troops, operating together with such Iraqi forces as are available, to establish security above all else."
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{{additional_author|William Kristol}}

{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|United States should increase troop levels|for}}

Bush's Iraq Legacy

2007-04-23T21:41:44Z

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{{item
|author=Robert Kagan
|source=The Weekly Standard
|date=November 13, 2006
|url=http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/935lhpfm.asp
|quote="In Iraq, American policies have steadily undermined the Iraqi people's confidence that the United States has either the will or capacity to provide them the security they need and deserve. So they have turned to their own sectarian armed groups for the protection the Bush administration has failed to provide. That, and not historical inevitability or the alleged failings of the Iraqi people, is what has brought Iraq closer to civil war."
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{{additional_author|William Kristol}}

{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|United States should increase troop levels|for}}
{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|Coalition troops should pull out|against}}

Bush must call for reinforcements in Iraq

2007-04-23T21:40:38Z

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{{item
|author=Robert Kagan
|source=Financial Times
|date=November 12, 2006
|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/8a848c2e-7278-11db-a5f5-0000779e2340.html
|quote="Instead of looking for a face-saving way to lose in Iraq, President Bush could finally demand of his top advisers a strategy to succeed: provide the US force levels necessary to achieve even minimal political objectives. This could begin by increasing US troops in Iraq by at least 50,000 in order to clear and hold Baghdad without shifting troops from other parts of Iraq."
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{{additional_author|William Kristol}}

{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|United States should increase troop levels|for}}
{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|Coalition troops should pull out|against}}

American Liberty at the Precipice

2007-04-23T21:36:10Z

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|author=The New York Times editorial board
|source=The New York Times
|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/22/opinion/22thu1.html
|date=February 22, 2007
|quote="The right of prisoners to challenge their confinement — habeas corpus — is enshrined in the Constitution and is central to American liberty. Congress and the Supreme Court should act quickly and forcefully to undo the grievous damage that last fall’s law — and this week’s ruling — have done to this basic freedom."}}

{{opinion|Military Commissions Act of 2006|Act should be overturned|for}}

Turn North Korea Into a Human Rights Issue

2007-04-23T21:35:53Z

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|author=Vaclav Havel
|source=The New York Times
|date=10/30/2006
|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/opinion/30havel.html
|quote="Now that Kim Jong-il’s nuclear weapons test has attracted the attention and condemnation of the world, it is imperative to seize this opportunity and once again engage with Pyongyang on human rights and humanitarian concerns."
}}
{{additional_author|Kjell Magne Bondevik}}
{{additional_author|Elie Wiesel}}

{{opinion|North Korean nuclear crisis}}

North Korea Isn't Our Problem

2007-04-23T21:34:24Z

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|author=Anatol Lieven
|source=Los Angeles Times
|date=October 11, 2006
|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-lieven11oct11,0,3605684.story
|quote="The U.S. is already reducing its troop levels on the Korean peninsula; it should accelerate the process and move rapidly toward ending its military presence. Moreover, it should negotiate a peace treaty with North Korea. This will remove Pyongyang's motive to attack U.S. interests"
}}
{{additional_author|John Hulsman}}

{{opinion|North Korean nuclear crisis|China should pressure North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions|for}}
{{opinion|North Korean nuclear crisis|United States should negotiate with North Korea|for}}

In Defense of Sarbanes-Oxley

2007-04-23T21:33:47Z

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|author=Paul Volcker
|source=The Wall Street Journal
|date=June 14, 2004
|url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB108717805594936016.html
|quote="More importantly, we must not forget that U.S. markets are the best in the world because they are the best regulated. We should not engage in a race to the bottom. Instead, we should lead the world to the top, and we are. Countries are emulating our reforms -- from the new Combined Code in the U.K. to Germany's new Kodex of best practices -- and as a result, we are strengthening the global economy, not being defeated by it."
}}
{{additional_author|Arthur Levitt}}

{{opinion|Sarbanes-Oxley Act|Act should be reformed|against}}

Look Past The Tortured Distortions

2007-04-23T21:32:12Z

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{{item
|author=John Warner
|source=The Wall Street Journal
|date=October 2, 2006
|url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115975391846979627.html
|quote="We worked with the administration to achieve a fair system for the prosecution and conviction of suspected terrorists. The proposed legislation also reaffirms and underscores our nation's commitment to the Geneva Conventions, which we must uphold as a matter of principle and to protect our service members in this and future wars."
}}
{{additional_author|John McCain}}
{{additional_author|Lindsey Graham}}

{{opinion|Military Commissions Act of 2006|Compromise bill should be passed|for}}

More Troops

2007-04-23T21:28:59Z

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|author=Frederick W. Kagan
|source=The Weekly Standard
|date=September 27, 2006
|url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/734nyaea.asp
|quote="But the calls for more troops in Iraq come from soldiers training Iraqis, from soldiers trying to secure Baghdad, from soldiers in Anbar. [...] The truth is there are not enough ground forces in Iraq, and military officers are finally saying so in public."
}}
{{additional_author|William Kristol}}

{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|United States should increase troop levels|for}}

The Right Type of 'Surge'

2007-04-23T21:27:16Z

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{{item
|author=Jack Keane
|source=The Washington Post
|date=December 27, 2006
|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/26/AR2006122600773.html
|quote="We need to cut through the confusion. Bringing security to Baghdad -- the essential precondition for political compromise, national reconciliation and economic development -- is possible only with a surge of at least 30,000 combat troops lasting 18 months or so. Any other option is likely to fail."
}}
{{additional_author|Frederick W. Kagan}}
{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|United States should increase troop levels|for}}

Hit Iran Where It Hurts

2007-04-23T21:24:54Z

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{{item
|author=Dick Morris
|source=New York Post
|date=December 27, 2006
|url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/12272006/postopinion/opedcolumnists/hit_iran_where_it_hurts_opedcolumnists_dick_morris__eileen_mc_gann.htm
|quote="The sanctions adopted by the United Nations are too weak, too puny and too late to have any deterrent effect on Iran's drive to build a nuclear bomb.But there is something the U.S. government, state governments, labor unions, pension funds and each of us as individuals can do: We can stop investing in companies that help Iran exploit the oil and gas resources on which its economy depends."
}}
{{additional_author|Eileen McGann}}

{{opinion|Iranian nuclear crisis|Economic sanctions should be imposed on Iran|for}}

Judgment at Guantanamo

2007-04-23T20:44:47Z

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|author=David B. Rivkin Jr.
|source=The Wall Street Journal
|date=September 9, 2006
|url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115775899800658262.html
|quote="In this regard, the president's military commissions bill carefully balances the key relevant policy imperatives -- ensuring a fair trial without undermining national security -- and yet gives unlawful enemy combatants more due process than they've ever received in history. It should be promptly enacted."
}}
{{additional_author|Lee A. Casey}}
{{opinion|Military Commissions Act of 2006|Act should be passed|for}}

War, law and justice

2007-04-23T20:41:27Z

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{{item
|author=David B. Rivkin Jr.
|source=The Washington Times
|date=August 24, 2006
|url=http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060823-085042-1355r.htm
|quote="Early in her opinion she refers to "the War on Terror of this administration." In other words, this is not her war and it's not America's war, it's George W. Bush's war, and the judge was clearly determined to hold at least one aspect of that war — the NSA surveillance program — unconstitutional. She did so based on a deeply flawed rationale."
}}
{{additional_author|Lee A. Casey}}
{{opinion|NSA warrantless surveillance controversy|Judge Taylor was right to rule program unconstitutional|against}}

Reinforce Baghdad

2007-04-23T20:40:49Z

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|author=William Kristol
|source=The Washington Post
|date=September 12, 2006
|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/11/AR2006091100879.html
|quote="The administration deserves credit for the strides it has made in training the Iraqi army. But for now we have to do much of the holding ourselves for it to be effective. That simply requires more manpower."
}}
{{additional_author|Rich Lowry}}
{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|Coalition troops should pull out|against}}
{{opinion|Post-invasion Iraq|United States should increase troop levels|for}}

Rescue Darfur Now

2007-04-23T20:37:56Z

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|author=John McCain
|source=The Washington Post
|date=September 10, 2006
|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/08/AR2006090801664.html
|quote="Throughout the world, people of conscience were shocked by and ashamed of our failure to stop the genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda. We must not repeat these mistakes. In Darfur, the moment of truth is now."
}}
{{additional_author|Bob Dole}}
{{opinion|Darfur conflict|United Nations should send peacekeepers|for}}

John Bolton is a terrible representative of the United States

2007-04-23T20:37:14Z

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{{item
|author=Larry Finkelstein
|source=New Hampshire Union Leader
|date=September 4, 2006
|url=http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?articleId=5407c9a0-a0c6-425f-a2e2-f1339aa80f6c
|quote="The consequences have been U.S. estrangement from its allies, its relegation to the sidelines of negotiations, the virtual disappearance of U.S. diplomats from the mid-level discussion fora where ideas are gestated, and its humiliating isolation in the 170 to 4 vote to create the new U.N. Human Rights Council."
}}
{{additional_author|Jeffrey Laurenti}}
{{opinion|Confirmation of John Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 2006|Bolton should be confirmed|against}}

The Medicare Privatization Scam

2007-04-23T09:48:29Z

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|author=The New York Times editorial board
|source=The New York Times
|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/opinion/21sat1.html?hp
|date=April 21, 2007
|quote=Congress ought to eliminate the subsidies completely unless it is willing to subsidize the same benefits — at enormous cost — for the far greater number of people enrolled in standard Medicare.}}

{{opinion|Privatization of Medicare|Government should subsidize private medicare programs|against}}

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2007-04-23T09:47:35Z

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2007-04-21T17:26:32Z

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The Medicare Privatization Scam

2007-04-21T17:25:34Z

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|date=April 21, 2007
|quote=Congress ought to eliminate the subsidies completely unless it is willing to subsidize the same benefits — at enormous cost — for the far greater number of people enrolled in standard Medicare.}}

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{{opinion|Privatization of Medicare|Government should subsidize private medicare programs|against}}

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2007-04-21T17:21:12Z

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2007-04-21T17:05:44Z

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2007-04-21T17:02:51Z

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2007-04-21T16:49:51Z

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2007-04-21T16:34:10Z

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2007-04-21T16:24:58Z

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