Category: Economy
Family Business at the Watergate
by Margie Burns | Feb 15, 2005 | Economy, PoliticsNot many, if any, news reports have focused on the unpublicized connections of this Bush administration’s family members with politically—and financially—sensitive operations. Business Week recently noted that “dads and sons and other relatives reign so widely in this administration that there have never been so many family combos in an administration at the same time.” And the […]
Social Security Piratization | Dr. Dean’s New Job
by WS Editors | Feb 15, 2005 | Economy, PoliticsSocial Insecurity—President Bush keeps pushing his Social Security privatization plan, but with a declining chance of passage. Democratic opponents call it “Bushonomics” and a “piratization scheme” that fits what George W.’s father once called “voodoo economics.” The debate has spurred a new vocabulary among Democrats—”chicanery,” “deception,” “subterfuge” and “trickery” that they say is designed to […]
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