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Plutocrats' New Pitch: Let Us Rob You Now So You Can Plan Ahead for Poverty

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Social Security, the most prudently managed and economically sound retirement program the country has ever seen, and with the very lowest costs, is preventing you from piling up even more money in your bank accounts.Trust me,I really do understand how you feel:Financiers desperately wish to get their mitts on American retirements so they can charge all sorts of outrageous fees.And you hate the prospect of having to pay higher taxes in the future if you donĂ ‚¬ „ t Ă ‚¬Ĺ"fixĂ ‚¬ ť Social Security.I know how diligently you've tried to privatize America's best-loved program in order to get this show going.You must be bone tired!And I also fully get that as rich people interested far more in the size of your bank accounts than anything so trifling as,say,the strength and health of your country,you hate paying taxes of any kind.You deeply resent such citizen responsibilities,and so you want to
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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