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Columns - Commentary
 Richard D. Lamm - The
High Cost Of Cheap Labor - It is easy to see why illegal
immigrants are attractive to employers. These are generally good,
hard working people who will quietly accept minimum wage (or
less), who don't generally get health or other benefits, and
if they complain, they can be easily fired. For some employers
it is an abused form of labor. Even minimum wage is attractive
to workers from countries whose standard of living is a fraction
of ours. - More...
Wednesday - March 30, 2005
 Sharon Randall: Letting
Go - She thinks she's hiding it, but any fool can see it.
The only fool she's fooling is herself.
She keeps trying to figure
out why he left her - and when exactly is he coming back.
She doesn't talk about it,
but she doesn't have to tell me.
Loss is a universal language
and it has no need for words. - More...
Wednesday - March 30, 2005
Timothy M. Rivinus: A
tragedy down to the core - According to Aristotle, a resigned
wisdom often emerges from tragedy. Whether Terri Schiavo's life
ended functionally 15 years ago or will end soon (possibly by
the time this is published) doesn't mitigate the tragedy for
her and those who love her. Even if we peel away the layered
melodrama formed around her plight, tragedy remains at the core.
- More...
Wednesday - March 30, 2005
 Dick Morris: Designer
Social Security - President Bush's job-approval rate is slipping
again. One reason is likely his failure to sell his Social Security
reform.
The problem has always been
that the president only tells us half the story. He warns us
that the system is failing and trumpets the virtues of privatization,
but doesn't propose any solution to the core question: the shortfall
in the system's revenues. - More...
Wednesday - March 30, 2005
 Dale McFeatters: Social
Security solution: Have more babies - Out there on a smile
and a shoeshine, President Bush is trying with Willy Loman-like
doggedness to sell his plans for Social Security reform. But
even his audiences of carefully screened true believers don't
seem to be buying it.
The president needs a Plan
B and, curiously, out of Australia comes a plan that would save
Social Security. It's more circuitous than the president's, but
lots more fun. - More...
Wednesday - March 30, 2005
 Timm Herdt: Social
Security debate about people, not numbers - After a certain
report landed in my e-mail inbox Friday, there was something
I just couldn't keep myself from doing over the weekend.
I went to church on Easter
Sunday, looked around the pews and counted the Social Security
checks.
Frankly, after all the sound
and fury this winter over Social Security and its future, I needed
a different perspective from which to look at the issue. - More...
Wednesday - March 30, 2005
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