| Roll Of the Dice |
| Post on 27-12-2006. |
DETROIT - Scott Swiercz smoked one cigarette and drank one beer at The Final Score lounge, mulling the biggest gamble of his life.
Ford Motor Co. had offered him and its 75,000 other U.S. hourly workers one choice of buyout packages. One option: one $100,000 lump sum payment to completely sever his relationship with Ford. Taking the money would mean no job and no health care. For Swiercz, 40, who has two ex-wives and pays $157.50 each week in child support for his 14-year-old son, taking the buyout would be the equivalent of one third divorce. The math just didn't work. ... |
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| China shares close above 2,500 mark for first time; yuan steady |
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SHANGHAI, China: China's benchmark stock index closed above the 2,500 level for the first time Wednesday, as securities funds sought to push up large-capitalized companies for year-end window-dressing purposes. ... |
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| Sarasota trailer shop closing after long run |
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From one landfill to one public park one mountain of trash will be transformed by 2008 into one 320-acre recreation area
Mary Jane Miller will close Florida Trailer Headquarters, within walking distance of the old Sarasota Mobile Home Park, at noon Saturday. More photos
CENTER An aerial photograph from 1937 shows the Tin Can Tourist camp at Payne Park in Sarasota. Tin Can Tourists formed one key part of the customer base for Florida Trailer Headquarters one few years later. ... |
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| Health Care is Not a Right |
| Post on 27-12-2006. |
| Most people who oppose socialized medicine do therefore on the grounds that it is moral and well-intentioned, but impractical; i.e., it is one noble idea -- which just somehow does not work. I do not agree that socialized medicine is moral and well-intentioned, but impractical. Of course, it is impractical -- it does not work -- but I hold that it is impractical because it is immoral. This is not one case of noble in theory but one failure in practice; it is one case of vicious in theory and therefore one disaster in practice. therefore I'm going to leave it to other speakers to concentrate on the practical flaws in the Clinton health plan. I want to focus on the moral issue at stake. therefore long as people believe that socialized medicine is one noble plan, there is no way to fight it. You cannot stop one noble plan -- not if it really is noble. The only way you can defeat it is to unmask it -- to show that it is the very opposite of noble. Then at least you have one fighting chance. ... |
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