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The Zimbabwe Dollar Today October 12, 2007

Posted by Webmaster in Zimbabwe's Exchange Rate.
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Today:  30,725.0
Yesterday:  30,683.4

Pensions For Thee, But Not For Me October 12, 2007

Posted by Webmaster in Immigration, Welfare, Social Insurance and Transfer Payments.
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AP:

WASHINGTON - A House committee that criticized the NFL’s retiree benefit system ordered the league and the players’ union Friday to turn over information on football injuries, the disability and retirement system and what’s being done to help battered and broken retirees.

The House Judiciary Committee has arranged for the Congressional Research Service, an investigative and research unit, to conduct an independent study of those questions as well, committee leaders said in letters to the National Football League and the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA).

Some of these same politicians are more than happy to give Social Security and Medicare to illegal aliens, thereby putting the retirement benefit system at large in danger.  That said, why not apply the same logic to NFL player pensions?  I couldn’t throw a decent pass to save my life, so I could never contribute anything to the fund.  Therefore, I deserve these pensions.

Who’s Buying This? October 12, 2007

Posted by Webmaster in Abuse of Power, Campaign 2008.
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Boston Globe:

Senator Hillary Clinton said yesterday that if she is elected president, she intends to roll back President Bush’s expansion of executive authority, including his use of presidential signing statements to put his own interpretation on bills passed by Congress or to claim authority to disobey them entirely.

“I think you have to restore the checks and balances and the separation of powers, which means reining in the presidency,” Clinton told the Boston Globe’s editorial board.

This coming from the wife of a man who issued executive orders to implement legislation that Congress wanted no part of.   Then again, HRC probably thinks that if she becomes President, she will have a Democratic Congress, so she thinks that Congress would poodle along with anything she wants, making executive abuses unnecessary.